{"id":3986,"date":"2016-01-20T16:17:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T21:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=3986"},"modified":"2019-07-22T16:06:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T16:06:17","slug":"rome-predeparture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2016\/01\/20\/rome-predeparture\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome Predeparture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I figure it&#8217;s about time I start this blog since I&#8217;m leaving for Rome on the 21st and that&#8217;s tomorrow. Yay! My first post! Sorry, no pictures&#8230;not much is really happening. I&#8217;m getting pretty nervous mainly because I&#8217;ve procrastinated on getting my packing done and my Italian is less than adequate. But I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll figure something out (I&#8217;m going to remain positive). I don&#8217;t travel much and I&#8217;ve never been outside the U.S. and, I&#8217;ll admit it, planes terrify me. I just don&#8217;t like them. Despite all this I am more than excited about studying abroad! Italy has always been a place I want to experience for myself and now I&#8217;ve been given the opportunity. I&#8217;m the only one from Rollins going to Trinity College so that&#8217;s a little nerve wracking (I&#8217;m naturally a shy person) but I&#8217;m eager to meet many new faces and make new friends.<\/p>\n<p>My major is Art History so Italy is like heaven for me. The majority of my classes are art-based save for one class on Italian (there&#8217;s still hope for me). I&#8217;m probably the most excited about my class on Bernini who was a genius sculptor but, let&#8217;s face it, he was a pretty terrible human being. Hopefully my work load won&#8217;t be too bad because I really want to explore the places Italy has to offer. Of course there is the art and architecture and also the amazing food!<\/p>\n<p>Time went by so fast and I can&#8217;t believe it is already time for me to leave home. Saying goodbye to my family tomorrow is going to be hard. I&#8217;ll be studying abroad for the whole semester and won&#8217;t see them again until May. But during that time I will be experiencing so many different things and have plenty of stories to share when I return. I&#8217;m so grateful for this opportunity and can&#8217;t wait to share my adventures!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I figure it&#8217;s about time I start this blog since I&#8217;m leaving for Rome on the 21st and that&#8217;s tomorrow. Yay! My first post! Sorry, no pictures&#8230;not much is really happening. I&#8217;m getting pretty nervous mainly because I&#8217;ve procrastinated on getting my packing done and my Italian is less than adequate. But I&#8217;m sure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trinityrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986","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\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16812,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions\/16812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}