{"id":19394,"date":"2019-12-29T22:13:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T22:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/?p=19394"},"modified":"2020-01-03T19:46:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T19:46:44","slug":"coming-to-an-end-but-more-like-a-new-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2019\/12\/29\/coming-to-an-end-but-more-like-a-new-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"coming to an end,  but more like a new beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is a strange feeling being done with school in early November, something I have never experienced. I have a full two months off before classes start back up at Rollins. I am going to miss everything here, my life, my friends, and just being gone from home. I haven&#8217;t really left the US ever besides going to the Caribbean islands, but that is just next door. Maybe I&#8217;ll just not get on the plane back and live with the family I babysit for, but I doubt I&#8217;m actually going to do that, my mom would be pretty upset. If I saved enough money before I would have lol. Sometimes I get this uncanny feeling that this place really is home for me, and I&#8217;m just not going to go back to the US anytime soon. A lot of people I met here are staying here for a year for their abroad period, and as much as I would love that, I think I would have gone somewhere else In Australia. As much as I love being here, Newcastle isn&#8217;t the city for me. I have not really enjoyed being in cities ever, but spending five months here is enough time for me. I would want to stay in Cairns if I were to stay here for a while. I can&#8217;t actually believe I have to go back soon. I feel like I haven&#8217;t done everything I have wanted, but in reality, I have done far more than I expected. Traveling to Bali for spring break was the highlight of my experience. It makes me want to live on an island like that and volunteer for a couple months and learn more about their culture and way of living. Going with one friend their was a little intimidating since I have never really travelled without my parents, but being there is addicting. I just always want to learn and do more when I was there and it makes me want to stop school for a little bit because I really have no idea what I want to do with my life. Traveling is going to be where I truly find myself and figure out what I want to do with my life.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a strange feeling being done with school in early November, something I have never experienced. I have a full two months off before classes start back up at Rollins. I am going to miss everything here, my life, my friends, and just being gone from home. I haven&#8217;t really left the US ever&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":591,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[369],"class_list":["post-19394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle","tag-rollinsabroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19394","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\/591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19395,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19394\/revisions\/19395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}