{"id":18918,"date":"2019-10-29T12:55:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T12:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/?p=18918"},"modified":"2020-01-08T16:54:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T16:54:05","slug":"my-body-arrives-but-much-more-stayed-at-home-by-maria-rojas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2019\/10\/29\/my-body-arrives-but-much-more-stayed-at-home-by-maria-rojas\/","title":{"rendered":"My body arrives but much more stayed at home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hello\nfrom a Venezuelan to everybody else that is not in Shanghai! So, I few updates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>My airline lost both of\n     my luggage<\/li><li>They made me miss my\n     connection <\/li><li>I had to get into my\n     dorm by my self <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Between other stuff\u2026. So I am\nvery negative right now, maybe all day bad mood and frankly I want to get home\nalready, maybe I wish I can get deported some time but I am a pretty\nwell-behaved person unfortunately in my case lol. Please the first thing you do about booking a\nflight to China: DO NOT, I repeat: DO NOT BUY TICKETS FROM AMERICAN AIRLINES.\nThey delay my fights so much from the beginning that and I arrive in Shanghai\nTWO days later. I miss my orientation tour, orientation for my school and the\nfree pick up to the airport. Not only they did that but when I arrive, they\nlost both of my luggage! And they frankly don\u2019t have any idea they may have it.\nI am surviving with a travel kit of primary needs and three underwear and four\nchange of clothes which is not easy because I am a girl! I am used to using and\nchanging way more products and clothes that I am right now. On top of that, I\nhave to do classes, exams, learn by myself and od by myself everything that everyone\nwas assisted within orientation, etc. I had to pay about $80 USA dollars to get\nmyself into the dorm when I arrive, money in which they already said they are\nnot giving back. Right now, everything is just ugh. Not having fun like my\nclassmates, not being impressed by the culture and I cannot be excited by\nbegging here just because of all this. I have to be up until really late so I\ncan fight with the airline and then have class really early in which I cannot\npay attention at all. The only good thing I can be positive about is that my\nroommates are pretty nice and cool from different places, they are really\nhelpful, and they try to distract me. Also, some street food is my comfort food\nright now and I just hope I can get it to fix very soon and I can start being\npart of this great experience that it has been presented to me. Send help or at\nleast good vibes! Lol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hello from a Venezuelan to everybody else that is not in Shanghai! So, I few updates: My airline lost both of my luggage They made me miss my connection I had to get into my dorm by my self Between other stuff\u2026. So I am very negative right now, maybe all day bad mood&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[369],"class_list":["post-18918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shanghai","tag-rollinsabroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18918","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\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19548,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18918\/revisions\/19548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}