{"id":8838,"date":"2017-07-17T13:13:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T17:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=8838"},"modified":"2019-07-25T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T14:05:00","slug":"july-17-home-from-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2017\/07\/17\/july-17-home-from-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"July 17- Home from New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been back in the States for a few weeks now and it\u2019s been bitter sweet. I\u2019ve missed my family, my home, and Florida\u2019s summer heat for months- so it\u2019s good to be back. But I really just miss it. I miss the life-long friends I made, my ridiculously messyat (but not the kitchen- which was a science experiment in itself), the Dunedin lifestyle, the residents, New Zealand\u2019s vivid skies and landscapes\u2026 It kind of feels like it was a dream. Or that I got launched into a time warp. After spending months living in a separate hemisphere and just about to enter the icy thralls of winter, I\u2019ve been sling-shot back into the land of eternal summer. I feel like I\u2019ve lived an entire lifetime while I was away- I\u2019ve changed and grown in so many ways. But back here, everyone is still the same; it\u2019s as if I never left them. It really is great to be home and I feel that I have so much to forward to; but right now what I\u2019m really craving is $10 curry night with my flatmates followed by going home to hate-watch the Bachelor NZ and giggle and argue until 1am with some of the greatest people I&#8217;ve ever met.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/18893069_10209258044639484_2469263147011474624_n-300x165.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14847 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/18893069_10209258044639484_2469263147011474624_n-300x165-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19429630_10211502024405346_6892004766276566674_n-279x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14848 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19429630_10211502024405346_6892004766276566674_n-279x300-279x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"300\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19989409_1387761401272729_6785567326950490480_n-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14849 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19989409_1387761401272729_6785567326950490480_n-300x225-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19989671_10211678095327009_9103417271385467589_n-225x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14850 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19989671_10211678095327009_9103417271385467589_n-225x300-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19990164_1388751064507096_6146029511429056478_n-300x168.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14851 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19990164_1388751064507096_6146029511429056478_n-300x168-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been back in the States for a few weeks now and it\u2019s been bitter sweet. I\u2019ve missed my family, my home, and Florida\u2019s summer heat for months- so it\u2019s good to be back. But I really just miss it. I miss the life-long friends I made, my ridiculously messyat (but not the kitchen- which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":506,"featured_media":8840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[80,136,167,237,249,339],"class_list":["post-8838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-otago","tag-america","tag-dunedin","tag-friendship","tag-memories","tag-new-zealand","tag-univeristy-of-otago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8838","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\/506"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17898,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8838\/revisions\/17898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}