{"id":2452,"date":"2015-09-15T23:09:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T03:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2019-07-24T17:40:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T17:40:40","slug":"change-of-scenery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/09\/15\/change-of-scenery\/","title":{"rendered":"change of scenery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have moved Homestays since my last report. &nbsp;I am much closer to school and have a family more of what I asked for. &nbsp;I have three younger siblings under the age of 12 along with a homestay mom. &nbsp;The setting is a lot more relaxed and I am much happier with the new accommodations. &nbsp;It is on a popular street with shops and restaurants in which I cannot wait to explore more. My&nbsp;school work here has recently been heavy due to mid semester assignments but I have managed to stay on top of everything. I am confident in the assignments I have submitted and am looking to receive my grades and feedback for them. I have met more American friends and hope to try to meet some more locals upon leaving. &nbsp;One thing that has really surprised me is the apparent influence of the Asian culture here in Australia. &nbsp;In addition to the many Asians on the street, their culture is reflected in the plethora of restaurants representative of all different parts of Asia. &nbsp;The thai food here is unreal and will surely be one of the most missed things about being here. &nbsp;With Spring break approaching, I am hoping to visit other parts of Australia and really hope to go to the Great Barrier Reef as well as other parts of Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Current State of the Union<\/p>\n<p>In: Glebe, Thai Food, Spring Break, new homestay, warm weather<\/p>\n<p>Out: Midterm assignments, Ashfield, library, jackets and pants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have moved Homestays since my last report. &nbsp;I am much closer to school and have a family more of what I asked for. &nbsp;I have three younger siblings under the age of 12 along with a homestay mom. &nbsp;The setting is a lot more relaxed and I am much happier with the new accommodations&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","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\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17423,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/17423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}