{"id":4981,"date":"2016-06-24T18:22:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T22:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=4981"},"modified":"2019-07-18T18:03:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T18:03:17","slug":"8152-miles-away-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2016\/06\/24\/8152-miles-away-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"8,152 Miles Away from Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, I&#8217;m sitting at Tom Bradley International at LAX waiting for my flight. After months of waiting and excitement, today is finally the day that I say goodbye to America to study abroad in New Zealand. My mind is racing, wondering about all the adventures that I hope to have while abroad. Although I was born out of the country, this will technically be my first international flight without my family. &nbsp;Although, I get to have&nbsp;3 good friends by my side. I&#8217;m even more excited that I get the opportunity to spend a few days in Fiji to soak up the sun and get used to a 16 hour time change. As I sit here with one of my friends by my side, I am looking forward to all the new people I will have the chance to meet on this crazy adventure and the lifelong friendships I hope to make.<\/p>\n<p>All I have now between me and this experience is an 11 hour flight across the world and into the southern hemisphere. I can&#8217;t even imagine all of the things that I will get to learn, all the pictures I&#8217;m going to take, and all the memories I hope to make. See you in New Zealand!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, I&#8217;m sitting at Tom Bradley International at LAX waiting for my flight. After months of waiting and excitement, today is finally the day that I say goodbye to America to study abroad in New Zealand. My mind is racing, wondering about all the adventures that I hope to have while abroad&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-otago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981","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\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16446,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981\/revisions\/16446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}