{"id":7199,"date":"2016-12-21T10:32:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T15:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=7199"},"modified":"2019-07-17T16:36:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T16:36:23","slug":"thank-you-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2016\/12\/21\/thank-you-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been home for a few days now and the feeling has truly not set in. I feel like I am just on another weekend trip and that I will be returning to Mile End shortly. Although this may be the case, I am thankful that I have made it home safely and for the time I had in London. I am not quite &#8220;reverse culture shocked&#8221; as I had imagined&#8211;despite the fact that London is very similar to U.S city culture&#8211;rather, I am enjoying returning to distant normalities; I love having large portion sizes again, hearing American accents, driving in cars, and being able to say I am &#8220;home&#8221; again.<\/p>\n<p>I would highly recommend anyone to study abroad. For me, it was a life changing experience. I met great new friends, made extraordinary memories, learned a lot, saw cities I have dreamed of visiting since I was a kid, developed a lot of confidence in myself, and shaped a stronger global perspective. In reality, I see no reason to not study abroad, unless FOMO would stop someone entirely from having a good time. Students at Rollins should take the opportunity to study abroad: whether its for a semester, a summer, or even a field study (but only in last case-scenario). It is a humbling experience and helps us fulfill our college&#8217;s mission of promoting global citizenship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been home for a few days now and the feeling has truly not set in. I feel like I am just on another weekend trip and that I will be returning to Mile End shortly. Although this may be the case, I am thankful that I have made it home safely and for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qmul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199","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\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15587,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199\/revisions\/15587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}