{"id":3685,"date":"2015-11-30T17:15:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T22:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2019-07-22T16:51:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T16:51:31","slug":"winding-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/11\/30\/winding-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Winding Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well it&#8217;s official. 11 days left in London and I genuinely don&#8217;t know what to do with myself.<\/p>\n<p>Last week was a bit rough, having to spend Thanksgiving away from my family. However, CAPA held a Thanksgiving dinner for us and while I knew it wouldn&#8217;t be the same, it was nice to be among the people I have grown closer to during my time here and even win \u00a320 during the pub quiz in between courses. Then, on Saturday we went to a rugby match. I honestly cannot begin to explain what was going on, but it was really fun to just spend the day with friends and in that sporting event atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to begin to wrap my head around the fact that my time here in London is coming to an end. I have to be honest, though: I am ready to come home. I&#8217;m ready to see my family, my friends, spend Christmas in New York, and get back to Rollins.&nbsp;With finals and the start of packing right around the corner, the anxiety and anticipation are setting in. There&#8217;s still so much left to do in these next two weeks between school work, taking in the last moments of London, and packing. I uprooted my life three months, and here I am almost at the point of having it come to an end as quickly as it began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it&#8217;s official. 11 days left in London and I genuinely don&#8217;t know what to do with myself. Last week was a bit rough, having to spend Thanksgiving away from my family. However, CAPA held a Thanksgiving dinner for us and while I knew it wouldn&#8217;t be the same, it was nice to be among&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","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\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16915,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions\/16915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}