{"id":5534,"date":"2016-09-14T08:37:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T12:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=5534"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:52:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:52:11","slug":"final-vacation-days-and-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2016\/09\/14\/final-vacation-days-and-orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Vacation Days and Orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our intensive language course ended on Saturday, and we had a few days in between free of any responsibility. So naturally a couple of friends and I planned a trip to Europa Park (a&nbsp;giant theme park in Germany) and then a little day trip to Strasbourg, France. The theme park was really fun and had tons of roller coasters. On Tuesday, we hopped on a bus and traveled to France. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever get used to traveling only a few hours and being in another country. Back home you drive a couple of hours, and you&#8217;re still in the Sunshine State. I love being able to travel to nearby countries with such ease here. I&#8217;m trying to do as much as I can before the semester starts on Monday because I know my time will be limited and mostly dedicated to studying.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still trying to get used to the school system here. Classes begin in 5 days, and we still don&#8217;t have our class schedules yet. It&#8217;s making me a little uneasy because I&#8217;m used to planning out these things way in advance at Rollins. I know the classes I have to take here but they pick the meeting days\/times for us, and I don&#8217;t think we can change it. In a way, it&#8217;s good because it takes some of the stress of planning away from me, but I enjoy planning, so it&#8217;s still weird to me not knowing or having control over it. I&#8217;m excited and anxious for classes to start, though. Not entirely sure what to expect but hopefully it all goes well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our intensive language course ended on Saturday, and we had a few days in between free of any responsibility. So naturally a couple of friends and I planned a trip to Europa Park (a&nbsp;giant theme park in Germany) and then a little day trip to Strasbourg, France. The theme park was really fun and had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ddp-reutlingen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534","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\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19724,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions\/19724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}