{"id":2079,"date":"2015-07-27T03:23:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T07:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2019-07-24T18:31:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T18:31:09","slug":"my-beginning-weeks-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/07\/27\/my-beginning-weeks-here\/","title":{"rendered":"My beginning weeks here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So after the long flight I did make it to Australia! I actually lucked out because I had all three seats empty for the 16 hours so I managed to lay across them and sleep for the majority of the flight! I have done so much my first couple of weeks here. I saw a kangaroo for the first time and even touched a koala which everyone was really shocked about. I also did the Sydney Harbour Bridge climb which was absolutely amazing! The view at the top was breathtaking! We also did a dinner cruise at the Sydney Harbour. Seeing the city and the Opera house at night was so beautiful. I am honestly still in a little bit of shock that I am actually here. The city is unbelievably clean. It is probably the cleanest city I have ever been in. I have also met my host family! They are the nicest and most welcoming people! I feel really lucky to live with a family with two kids around my age because they have helped me so much with getting around the city and telling me where the best food places are! Below is a photo of Miya, Tess and I on the dinner cruise!<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_8462-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17556 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_8462-300x225-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after the long flight I did make it to Australia! I actually lucked out because I had all three seats empty for the 16 hours so I managed to lay across them and sleep for the majority of the flight! I have done so much my first couple of weeks here. I saw a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","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\/520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17557,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions\/17557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}