{"id":7208,"date":"2016-12-26T09:48:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T09:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=7208"},"modified":"2019-07-25T19:50:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:50:18","slug":"finally-stateside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2016\/12\/26\/finally-stateside\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally stateside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The semester is over; 2016 wraps to a close. I spent about six months outside of the country this year traveling to Ecuador, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Japan, and China. I can&#8217;t emphasize enough how much there is to learn by expanding your horizons in a literal sense as well as mentally. The unique perspectives from several of the people I&#8217;ve met around the globe and the experiences I&#8217;ve had at home and abroad have guided me and inspired me to follow a specific goal. To be back in the United States is nice&#8211;mostly just to see family and friends for the holidays&#8211;but my time in China felt short and incomplete. There is much more for me to see and do in China than can be accomplished in a mere four months (especially when busy with schoolwork). I&#8217;ve been contemplating the idea of teaching English there for a year or two to save some money, see other areas of China, and revisit Chinese friends as well as make new ones. Despite going their without any prior expectations, I was still blown away by everything. China was a wonderful and unique experience for me that&#8217;s as equally cherishable as it is memorable. \u6211\u7231\u4e2d\u56fd\u3002<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FB_IMG_1482166637627-768x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15583 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FB_IMG_1482166637627-768x1024-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FB_IMG_1482166637627-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FB_IMG_1482166637627-768x1024-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The semester is over; 2016 wraps to a close. I spent about six months outside of the country this year traveling to Ecuador, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Japan, and China. I can&#8217;t emphasize enough how much there is to learn by expanding your horizons in a literal sense as well as mentally. The unique&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shanghai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208","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=7208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15584,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208\/revisions\/15584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}