{"id":19671,"date":"2020-01-23T16:58:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T21:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/?p=19671"},"modified":"2020-01-23T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T21:58:11","slug":"pre-departure-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2020\/01\/23\/pre-departure-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-departure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since this is my first time ever studying abroad, there are a lot of things I am looking forward to. Studying abroad was something I never thought I would have the opportunity to do. It was also something I never thought I would actually do in college. Traveling to Italy is no challenge, however living there for a couple of months is. Adjusting to their culture and a new routine will definitely be a huge change for me. I\u2019m the type of person to have their own space and stick to a routine. I\u2019m excited to try something new and branch out of my comfort zone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although I leave very soon to Rome, it doesn\u2019t feel like it\u2019s actually going to happen. I think it will finally hit me once I\u2019m on the plane. For now, I\u2019m excited about all the new foods and slow pace environment I will experience. Based on the information I have heard, Italy is a lot different than what I thought it would be. I have visited it in the past, but I was young so I don\u2019t remember much. Being away from home is going to hard, but this a great opportunity for me to grow as an individual and challenge myself into doing things I never imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since this is my first time ever studying abroad, there are a lot of things I am looking forward to. Studying abroad was something I never thought I would have the opportunity to do. It was also something I never thought I would actually do in college. Traveling to Italy is no challenge, however living&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":627,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[369],"class_list":["post-19671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isarome","tag-rollinsabroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19671","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\/627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19672,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19671\/revisions\/19672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}