{"id":11346,"date":"2018-07-08T16:10:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T20:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=11346"},"modified":"2019-07-09T16:11:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:11:33","slug":"before-i-go-to-australia-pre-departure-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2018\/07\/08\/before-i-go-to-australia-pre-departure-post\/","title":{"rendered":"I wish procrastination was a marketable skill: Pre-Departure Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to go to Australia because I figured that if I didn&#8217;t go now then it probably wouldn&#8217;t be at the top of my list of places to go when I got older. And as I&#8217;ve talked to people about my upcoming trip they have all affirmed that Australia is a place that they never got around to visiting, unlike places in Europe. I&#8217;ve been out of the country before to several other places but I think Australia will be such a different experience because even though they speak English over there I&#8217;ve never been abroad on my own without my friends or family so I think that this will be a really good time for me to explore how I do on my own and find out how independent and resourceful I can be. Preparing for this trip has made me really wish that procrastination was a marketable skill, because I excel in it like&nbsp;nothing else! When it came to this blog post I literally waited until the last day. If I had done that will all of my paper work (i.e. visa applications, class scheduling, insurance paperwork etc) I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to go. I learned that I thrive under a time crunch and am almost always able to get my stuff done within the last few hours of it being due; and I don&#8217;t do poorly on those tasks either! However, when it comes to travel plans staying up late the night before won&#8217;t get it all done. It takes days and weeks of planning and paperwork processing to get this stuff done. It&#8217;s made me realize how much of a bubble I&#8217;ve been in terms of being a child vs being an adult. Hopefully this time will help me to grow and learn and hopefully help me make some adjustments that will help me in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to go to Australia because I figured that if I didn&#8217;t go now then it probably wouldn&#8217;t be at the top of my list of places to go when I got older. And as I&#8217;ve talked to people about my upcoming trip they have all affirmed that Australia is a place that they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11346","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\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13841,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11346\/revisions\/13841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}