{"id":7344,"date":"2017-01-18T15:24:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T20:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=7344"},"modified":"2019-07-17T15:51:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T15:51:04","slug":"the-hardest-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2017\/01\/18\/the-hardest-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hardest Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Saying goodbye to Rome and all the new friends I\u2019ve made here is one of the hardest things I\u2019ve ever done. Coming here in the first place was also one of the hardest things I\u2019ve ever done. I\u2019m going to miss everything about this place. The food, the people, the culture, the buildings, the fountains, even the homework. Yes I said homework. Everything is so lively here and fun. I\u2019ve travelled more than I ever dreamed I would this semester and I learned a lot about myself and my fears along the way. I\u2019ve disappointed myself and made myself proud. I\u2019ve stepped out of my comfort zone and made new friends. Even though I\u2019ve travelled to so many places and each of them I\u2019ve loved in different ways, I am so glad I chose to spend my semester in Rome. I think that Rome has it\u2019s own charm, it\u2019s different from any other city in the world. People are laid back, the public transportation system is awful, people still take naps in the middle of the day and close down the stores and you will never have ur breath taken away like it is when you stand in the colosseum or in front of the Trevi fountain. It\u2019s a truly amazing place and I think reverse culture shock is going to be a real thing for my friends and I. I hope that I don\u2019t lose all the Italian I have learned and I hope I return to Rome in the near future. I\u2019m now excited to see my family and finally feel well rested after 4 months of no sleep. I\u2019m ready to start the next chapter in my life and cherish the memories and experiences I had in Rome. I know that now I will not take anything for granted and I will never stop seeking new adventures no matter where I am in the world because this study abroad experience taught me that something fun and new can be literally around the corner, you just have to go and find it. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saying goodbye to Rome and all the new friends I\u2019ve made here is one of the hardest things I\u2019ve ever done. Coming here in the first place was also one of the hardest things I\u2019ve ever done. I\u2019m going to miss everything about this place. The food, the people, the culture, the buildings, the fountains,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":428,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isarome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344","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\/428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15540,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344\/revisions\/15540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}