{"id":3061,"date":"2015-10-24T19:31:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T23:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=3061"},"modified":"2020-02-12T13:01:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T18:01:59","slug":"im-not-ready-for-you-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/10\/24\/im-not-ready-for-you-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not ready for you, Winter."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I may be from Colorado but studying at Rollins sure has made me a wimp when it comes to the weather! About two weeks ago it started getting colder, and when I say colder I&#8217;m talking the lower to mid 50s. Let me just say, I haven&#8217;t missed this weather. The funny thing is though, it hasn&#8217;t really rained as much as I was mentally preparing myself for (knock on wood). But when it does, boy is it dreary.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side though, when the wind isn&#8217;t blowing, there have been some nice fall days (and plenty of fallen leaves!). We recently went on a day trip to Stratford-upon-Avon and the Kenilworth Castle and fortunately had nice weather! The nice thing about the rain is that it makes everything so green, which means prettier pictures \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-3061-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"1138\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_1435-Im-not-ready-for-you-Winter..mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_1435-Im-not-ready-for-you-Winter..mp4\">http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_1435-Im-not-ready-for-you-Winter..mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;m learning to feel guilt free about all the coffee and sweet drinks I&#8217;ve been consuming due to the considerably colder climate!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo of myself pretending to fall down a hill at the Kenilworth Castle for your comic relief! <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/image-300x200.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17159 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/image-300x200-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>On a slightly different note,\u00a0I&#8217;ve just arrived in Edinburgh for the first half of my fall break and let me just tell you, if I though London was cold, boy was I in for a surprise in Scotland! It is absolutely freezing and the wind sends very real chills down my spine. However, I rather like the city itself so far! The people are very friendly and the old town has tons of quant antique shops, nice restaurants and some great entertainment! Today I went from being pulled into a hilarious street performers show to watching a dance company perform at the main theatre.<\/p>\n<p>I have 3 more days to explore, try to escape the wind by exploring a variety of coffee shops and of course indulge in buying everything I don&#8217;t need! (Because what else are vacations really for?) On a completely unrelated note, I have a serious obsession with Corgis- if I could break into the Buckingham Palace and steal the Queen&#8217;s, I would. But I suppose the cute little wine cork I bought today will have to suffice! <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/image3-169x300.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17160 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/image3-169x300-169x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may be from Colorado but studying at Rollins sure has made me a wimp when it comes to the weather! About two weeks ago it started getting colder, and when I say colder I&#8217;m talking the lower to mid 50s. Let me just say, I haven&#8217;t missed this weather. The funny thing is though,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061","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\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19879,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions\/19879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}