{"id":4804,"date":"2016-06-08T17:55:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T21:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=4804"},"modified":"2019-07-29T21:19:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T21:19:05","slug":"my-new-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2016\/06\/08\/my-new-family\/","title":{"rendered":"My New Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5707-e1465422301762-150x150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16495 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5707-e1465422301762-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before I came to Germany, I wasn&#8217;t expecting to have any sort of special bond with the people who were housing me; I was here to study and experience the German culture and language. However, I already feel very close to and welcomed by the family that I&#8217;m staying with. My host-mom and her 9-year-old daughter have done so much to make me feel at home. It&#8217;s a little hard to read, but this welcome sign was on the doormat of their apartment when I arrived. The daughter took it upon herself to make me a welcome sign as well as signs for every room in the apartment so that I would know where everything was. She impresses me more and more each day with her maturity and intelligence, and I can already tell that it&#8217;ll be very hard for me to say goodbye to her. I have a younger sister but she&#8217;s 17, so it makes me happy that I can spend time with her and treat her like a really little sister. She&#8217;s an only child, so I can imagine that having someone around makes her happy. I&#8217;m so excited to spend more time in Muenster as well as get to know my host family even better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I came to Germany, I wasn&#8217;t expecting to have any sort of special bond with the people who were housing me; I was here to study and experience the German culture and language. However, I already feel very close to and welcomed by the family that I&#8217;m staying with. My host-mom and her 9-year-old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804","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\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16496,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions\/16496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}