{"id":5293,"date":"2016-08-18T15:09:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T19:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=5293"},"modified":"2019-07-18T17:26:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T17:26:25","slug":"first-time-going-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2016\/08\/18\/first-time-going-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"First time going to China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mine too! I actually just got back from my trip around southeast Asia where I went cliff jumping and walked around the edge of a skyscraper in the Philippines, to the peak in Hong Kong, Vietnam, the ancient temples in Cambodia and cuddling tigers and riding elephants after island hopping in Thailand!<\/p>\n<p>A little background on myself&#8230; my name is Oakley. I was born and raised in a small town in Florida. Immediately after high school I joined the Marines during which time I traveled through most of the U.S. as well as other countries such as the Philippines and Japan. Japan is absolutely wonderful! It&#8217;s also where my dad was born (Fukuoka specifically). I love every country I&#8217;ve been to&#8211;the Philippines, Japan, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and soon China.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not new to visiting other parts of the world but this will be my first time in China. I have high expectations for this four month trip both academically and personally. I would like to explore as much of China and nearby countries as possible, establish strong friendships, as well as dramatically improve my Chinese. I&#8217;m always excited to experience a foreign land and culture. Once I arrive, I&#8217;ll update this every couple weeks or so with photos and all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mine too! I actually just got back from my trip around southeast Asia where I went cliff jumping and walked around the edge of a skyscraper in the Philippines, to the peak in Hong Kong, Vietnam, the ancient temples in Cambodia and cuddling tigers and riding elephants after island hopping in Thailand! A little background&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argentina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293","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\/424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16345,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions\/16345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}