You\nknow how people say that if something is meant to be, everything will work\nitself out in the end? From personal experience I can confirm that this is\ncompletely true. As I sit in the airport awaiting my (delayed) flight to\nOviedo, I can\u2019t help but feel extremely grateful and blessed to have such an\namazing opportunity. I also can\u2019t help but think back the study abroad\napplication, all the obstacles I faced to get here, and all of my previous\ndoubts and worries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deciding\nto apply to this specific study abroad program was not an easy decision. I am a\nfirst generation college student, my mother attended community college and\nnever attended a four-year university that had as many opportunities as Rollins\ndoes, and my father is from Panama. Therefore, all of this is completely new to\nme and my family. It seems that everything I do from the moment that I first\napplied to college to now trying to take advantage of everything Rollins has to\noffer is a bit confusing and rushed. However, when I was a freshman and heard\nabout all of the study abroad options Rollins offers, I knew I had to take\nadvantage of this once in a lifetime opportunity at some point during my college\nlife. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Spring\nsemester of my sophomore year, when study abroad applications for this fall opened\nup, I knew I wanted to apply to Spain. Not only would I be able to to get the\nchance to study and explore in Europe, a continent I\u2019ve always dreamed of\ntraveling to, but I\u2019d also be able to take classes in Spanish. Being born in\nthe United States and going to English speaking schools, I am more proficient in\nEnglish than in Spanish. However, I am extremely proud of my culture, heritage,\nand background, because it\u2019s made me who I am today. I\u2019m completely aware that\nEuropean Spaniard culture will be completely different from the culture and\ntype of people we have in Central America. Every Spanish speaking country has\ndifferences between their cultures and even the ways they speak Spanish\nincluding the accent and the meaning of different words, therefore, I know the\nculture and language in Spain to be something entirely new to be. However, I\nfeel like my background and understanding of the language will help me navigate\nmy new environment. I also I feel like I\u2019ll be able to connect more to the\nSpaniard social life more than I would be able to connect to the social life in\nany other European country. I look forward to traveling to Europe the first\ntime, stepping outside of my comfort zone, and everything this experience has\nto offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You know how people say that if something is meant to be, everything will work itself out in the end? From personal experience I can confirm that this is completely true. As I sit in the airport awaiting my (delayed) flight to Oviedo, I can\u2019t help but feel extremely grateful and blessed to have such…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oviedo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18622","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18623,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18622\/revisions\/18623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}