{"id":4988,"date":"2016-06-25T06:25:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T10:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2019-07-18T18:02:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T18:02:48","slug":"hasta-luego-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2016\/06\/25\/hasta-luego-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Hasta Luego, Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a rather rocky transition into Spain, my last three weeks of the program have come to be the best twenty-one days of my life. While overcoming homesickness and learning to enjoy unfamiliarity, I now regard Madrid as one of my favorite cities. With beauty at every corner and a vibrant culture amongst all residents, Madrid has taught me to value new opportunities. Moreover, I have made lifelong friends from differing countries, including Holland, France, and Portugal, as well as with American\u00a0students\u00a0I had not previously known. Additionally, my knowledge of the Spanish language has improved drastically. While once not able to speak basic sentences, I can now hold conversations. By way of illustration, while first meeting my homestay mother six\u00a0weeks ago, I could not comprehend most of what she was saying. However, today, while unfortunately leaving her home forever, I had the opportunity to speak with her about our future endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, I would like to thank Dr. Prieto for providing the Verano Espa\u00f1a program. I may never have the opportunity to live in Madrid again; however, I am grateful for the experiences I have encountered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/13407010_10204745041026234_1339979728042050314_n-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16441 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/13407010_10204745041026234_1339979728042050314_n-300x225-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/13439008_10206803559348467_6703418158421559898_n-225x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16442 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/13439008_10206803559348467_6703418158421559898_n-225x300-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/13466479_10204745041386243_7658413447153720536_n-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16443 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/13466479_10204745041386243_7658413447153720536_n-300x225-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a rather rocky transition into Spain, my last three weeks of the program have come to be the best twenty-one days of my life. While overcoming homesickness and learning to enjoy unfamiliarity, I now regard Madrid as one of my favorite cities. With beauty at every corner and a vibrant culture amongst all residents,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988","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\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16444,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions\/16444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}