{"id":2231,"date":"2015-08-25T09:03:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T13:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2019-07-24T18:13:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T18:13:30","slug":"germany-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/08\/25\/germany-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany bound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And so my trip begins<\/p>\n<p>So August&nbsp;25st has finally come around. It is finally the day to fly to Germany. It was an extra long summer&nbsp;break seeing as how my fall&nbsp;semester would start once I arrived in Germany. The future is bleak and I don&#8217;t know what to expect, but the pressure is good for me. Looking back at my past two years at Rollins,the friends I made, the experience I gained, the perks, and the overall experience was amazing and I wouldn\u2019t trade it for the world. Today my flight leaves at 8:00 Pm in between this and now 1 hours will pass. But that&#8217;s not the full story, laughter, tears, heartfelt goodbyes between me and my friends and family will occur. All to be a small&nbsp;moment in what we call life.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m really excited for are the stereotypes I as an American will have, until I disprove them all. Because what is life without breaking the rules. &#8220;You are American therefore you must only speak English,&#8221; no I&#8217;m here to learn some German. &#8220;You are American so you will get screwed by the locals,&#8221; no because I don&#8217;t want to hang out with the locals.<\/p>\n<p>Mauricio Chaves<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Word Count:204<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so my trip begins So August&nbsp;25st has finally come around. It is finally the day to fly to Germany. It was an extra long summer&nbsp;break seeing as how my fall&nbsp;semester would start once I arrived in Germany. The future is bleak and I don&#8217;t know what to expect, but the pressure is good for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ddp-reutlingen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","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\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17508,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions\/17508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}