{"id":7522,"date":"2017-02-21T22:40:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T03:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=7522"},"modified":"2019-07-17T15:14:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T15:14:47","slug":"predeparture-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2017\/02\/21\/predeparture-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Predeparture Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">I used many adjectives to describe my identity in the study abroad application. A few of them being; brother, American, student, and Christian. Those words help create a framework for who I identify as but they do not completely define who I am.<br \/>\nMy individual identity allows me to experience the world as a free, open-minded individual who is willing to take risks and immerse myself in different cultural ways than my own in order to develop a global perspective. I believe my identity influences me to have an individualistic approach to life as I am generally always looking for experiences where I can learn and grow. However, if I had these experiences by myself I feel as if I would not reap the full effect I would if I was sharing it with the people I am close with. That being said, I think everyone&#8217;s personal identity&#8217;s does experience different individual events and although a collective experience can offer a similar feeling for each individual involved, the experience can have different meanings for everyone. From what it seems, many people who chose to study abroad have a similar passion for the outdoors and a sense for adventure, so I think the identities of the people at the university and the country will have a mutually beneficial influence on one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used many adjectives to describe my identity in the study abroad application. A few of them being; brother, American, student, and Christian. Those words help create a framework for who I identify as but they do not completely define who I am. My individual identity allows me to experience the world as a free,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-otago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7522","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\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15481,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7522\/revisions\/15481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}