{"id":5391,"date":"2016-09-03T01:47:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T05:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=5391"},"modified":"2019-07-18T17:16:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T17:16:51","slug":"spring-break-in-august-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2016\/09\/03\/spring-break-in-august-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Break in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">2 days late &#8211; but for a good cause! I just went on the coolest trip of my life. This last week was &#8220;Spring Break&#8221; (so weird because it&#8217;s cold!!) in New Zealand. 10 of my friends and I rented cars and went road tripping! We got to see SUCH cool things. I got to see what made me want to study abroad in New Zealand in the first place &#8211; the Kaikoura baby seal waterfall. During the winter seal pups come to the waterfall and spend the whole day playing! As I sat there watching them, I was so happy. We continued on our road trip and went hiking for 2 days in Abel Tasman national park. I had never done a backpacking trip before! It was very difficult to carry everything I would need throughout the 2 days in my pack and walk (for about 5 hours a day). Clothes, sleeping bag, food, EVERYTHING. We walked about 30 miles in 2 days. That night &#8211; I saw some of the prettiest starts EVER! They were even better than the ones I saw in Fiji. The milky way was so bright &#8211; I felt like I was in a planetarium. After Abel Tasman we made our way back down the west coast. We saw some glaciers and a beautiful gorge with such blue water. I am completely in love with this beautiful country. After 7 days, I am thoroughly exhausted, but very content. It&#8217;s nice to sit in my room, catch up with family, and do nothing. Traveling is exhilarating but soooo tiring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 days late &#8211; but for a good cause! I just went on the coolest trip of my life. This last week was &#8220;Spring Break&#8221; (so weird because it&#8217;s cold!!) in New Zealand. 10 of my friends and I rented cars and went road tripping! We got to see SUCH cool things. I got to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-otago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391","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\/314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16315,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions\/16315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}