{"id":11299,"date":"2018-06-22T11:13:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T11:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=11299"},"modified":"2019-07-25T19:41:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:41:48","slug":"the-time-has-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2018\/06\/22\/the-time-has-come\/","title":{"rendered":"The Time has Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The time has come for me to go abroad in Argentina, I thought I had more time and then it\u2019s the 21<sup>st<\/sup>and I am packing at 1am in the morning. Even though it is a little scary to go to a country I don\u2019t know the country\u2019s spoken language full I know it will be a great experience. I wanted to go abroad to experience another culture, meet new people and step out of my comfort zone. Which will give me the opportunity to learn about a culture and people of Argentina and to become fluent\/conversational in Spanish. I wanted to go somewhere that would challenge me and a place that not a lot of people chose to go. The process preparing for my departure was a bit stressful. I had a lot to do in a short amount of time and making sure that I got all the things that I needed for these 5 months. From trying to decide which clothes to bring, to ensure that I didn\u2019t over pack, what I should buy here verses when I get there and trying to get a background check done on myself. It was definitely a roller coaster process and I think necessary, so that I know what to do and what not to do the next time that I travel abroad.<\/p>\n<p>I have gone abroad before but never in south America, always to Europe or the Caribbean and never longer than a month. I also traveled with people on those previous experience. But for this trip I will be traveling by myself with no safety net of people and this is also a part of the reason I chose to go to Argentina. I think that this experience will be different from my other experiences in what I get out of being abroad. The other times that I went abroad were for either vacation or service work and I was able to experience the food and art of other cultures. On this experience abroad, it will be more than the others. I will not only have the opportunity to experience the amazing culture and food of Argentina. I will also be able to improve my fluency in Spanish, meet people who have a different perspective of the world. I want to use this experience abroad in Argentina to allow myself to learn and grow not only in my knowledge of Argentina but of myself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am so excited to go aboard and can\u2019t wait to embark on this Journey.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time has come for me to go abroad in Argentina, I thought I had more time and then it\u2019s the 21stand I am packing at 1am in the morning. Even though it is a little scary to go to a country I don\u2019t know the country\u2019s spoken language full I know it will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":445,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argentina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/445"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13851,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11299\/revisions\/13851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}