{"id":19707,"date":"2020-02-04T14:23:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T19:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/?p=19707"},"modified":"2020-02-04T14:26:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T19:26:15","slug":"pre-departure-post-australia-here-i-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2020\/02\/04\/pre-departure-post-australia-here-i-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-departure post: Australia here I go!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing this blog eight days before arriving in Cairns for orientation. I am flying to LA in four days and I am really excited and nervous at the same time. I remember a year ago I was planning and thinking about studying abroad and what I was going to do when doing it. Now, is time to say goodbye to everyone and jump into this new adventure; time flies as we say. I cannot believe I am just eight days away from arriving in Cairns!!!!! I have so many plans, trips, visits, and ideas that I just want to be there to do all of it.<\/p>\n<p>Although I studied abroad before, I am really excited to start this new journey in Sydney, Australia. This is a huge opportunity for me to grow as a person, learn new skills, a new culture, new people, and to travel. I always wanted to study in Australia, even I was thinking about going to college there. Australia is a country that transmits me positivity, good energy, and drives me to try new things and to open up with people. Since I have been traveling my whole life and I study abroad in different places, I do not think that I will have a hard time adjusting to the city and life there. However, I feel a bit anxious because I have high expectations of Australia and for myself when going there and, why if my expectations do not go as planned? But I am going with a positive mind and I am really excited to go, have fun, and meet new people there; who knows, I may find the group of people with who I feel 100% myself!!!<\/p>\n<p>I am going to Australia in a time where there are a lot of things going on, such as Coronavirus, the fires, high temperatures, smoke, etc. However, since I am really excited to go, I feel less scared than other people I have talked to. I think that if we can go there and the program was not canceled, it should not be that bad, right? I do not know what is going to happen but what I know is that I want to have the best time of my life and to have so many experiences and anecdotes that I could be hours telling them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing this blog eight days before arriving in Cairns for orientation. I am flying to LA in four days and I am really excited and nervous at the same time. I remember a year ago I was planning and thinking about studying abroad and what I was going to do when doing it&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[369],"class_list":["post-19707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sydney","tag-rollinsabroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19707","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19710,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19707\/revisions\/19710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}