{"id":6760,"date":"2016-11-28T16:30:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T21:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=6760"},"modified":"2019-07-17T17:33:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T17:33:19","slug":"adapt-according-to-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2016\/11\/28\/adapt-according-to-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"Adapt According to Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I was blessed enough to have my parents and brother fly to Paris to visit me and take me to Disneyland Paris. It was such a lovely time &#8211; both my family and the park gave me little snippets of home to cherish with me in my last few weeks as a French-American student &#8211; but it was also an enlightening experience as well. Even now, as I enter my third and final month of study abroad, I still feel like a tourist: I&#8217;m still a beginner in the language, I&#8217;m still discovering new things about Aix, and I still haven&#8217;t hit up all the major tourist spots. Being with my family, however &#8211; who have never been to Europe or lived anywhere else but Florida for as long as I&#8217;ve been gone &#8211; made me realize just how accustomed I&#8217;d become to the French life. I have distinctive knowledge on the workings of Aix. I know the right responses for key French phrases. I eat cheese and bread like it&#8217;s all I breathe. So I&#8217;m&nbsp;<em>not<\/em> a tourist after all, at least not as much. I&#8217;m a functioning French-American student who knows the customs and knows the streets of Aix like the back of my hand. The quirks I see in French culture don&#8217;t seem strange to me the way they seem strange to my dad. Now, it&#8217;s strange to think of them as anything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I was blessed enough to have my parents and brother fly to Paris to visit me and take me to Disneyland Paris. It was such a lovely time &#8211; both my family and the park gave me little snippets of home to cherish with me in my last few weeks as a French-American&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":463,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france-iau-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760","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\/463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15742,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions\/15742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}