{"id":2839,"date":"2015-09-05T08:13:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T12:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2019-07-24T17:56:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T17:56:15","slug":"so-far-so-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/09\/05\/so-far-so-great\/","title":{"rendered":"So far, so great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It had only been a week when I already knew a part of me would always stay in this city. During the first three days, our program directors led tours in the main areas of the city. I couldn\u2019t believe I was going to call the city my home. There is such a magical feeling that you get every time you walk past all the historical monuments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_2753-300x169.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17459 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_2753-300x169-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My first week in The American University of Rome is when the culture shock started to hit a little. I was used to living on campus and only walk 10 minutes the most from my dorm to the classroom to go to class. Now I live in an apartment and I have to take a bus to go to school. Without cellular data or knowing any Italian, taking a 20-minute bus ride to school everyday has been a little overwhelming these weeks. However, my transition from living to El Salvador to the United States only took a few weeks to adjust and to become completely comfortable so I am hopping it will be the same way in Rome!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/11892076_10206944620991477_3415763010155093827_n-300x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17460 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/11892076_10206944620991477_3415763010155093827_n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/11892076_10206944620991477_3415763010155093827_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/11892076_10206944620991477_3415763010155093827_n-300x300-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although I am glad that there are more people from Rollins in the program, living with 5 other people has been an interesting experience. I really like it so far and we have gotten really close in a matter of a few weeks. I am looking forward to creating a lot of memories with them.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t wait to learn more Italian and start to immerse myself in the culture!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It had only been a week when I already knew a part of me would always stay in this city. During the first three days, our program directors led tours in the main areas of the city. I couldn\u2019t believe I was going to call the city my home. There is such a magical feeling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isarome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17461,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions\/17461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}