{"id":3097,"date":"2015-10-26T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2015-10-26T05:20:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T09:20:00","slug":"october-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/10\/26\/october-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"October Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first week of October has been very interesting. I&#8217;m starting to get a very good feel for all of my classes and how to handle the fact that they&#8217;re entirely in French. My Impressionism course would be too easy if it were in English, but the French art vocabulary is something I do not yet have. Thus, this course is my hardest. I really am enjoying my spoken and written French grammar courses. The teacher doesn&#8217;t speak any English so I&#8217;m guaranteed to learn some French while being there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also starting to get comfortable with the idea of having a home-stay. My home-stay is a very independent situation in that my host dad is really almost never home so it gives me a lot of freedom to feel as though I&#8217;m living on my own which is preferred. However, when he is home, we get to eat together and I practice speaking French with him. His French accent though is one of the thickest I&#8217;ve encountered so sometimes it&#8217;s very difficult to understand him. I think one of the things I like most about my home-stay is being able to cook for myself when he&#8217;s not there. I don&#8217;t have all my preferred ingredients, but Rodolphe (host dad) has taught me some quick, typically French meals, and it&#8217;s been fun to make them on my own!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first week of October has been very interesting. I&#8217;m starting to get a very good feel for all of my classes and how to handle the fact that they&#8217;re entirely in French. My Impressionism course would be too easy if it were in English, but the French art vocabulary is something I do not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":553,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hollins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","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\/553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}