{"id":9617,"date":"2017-10-13T06:38:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T10:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=9617"},"modified":"2019-07-10T17:37:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T17:37:50","slug":"1-month-in-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2017\/10\/13\/1-month-in-2\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Month In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I got in the plane to go to France I felt a weird sense of nostalgia, of fear. I started thinking about how it would be like, how I would feel, if I would be able to communicate. I started to stress about living with a host family, I thought &#8220;What if they outright hate me?&#8221; &#8220;What if I can&#8217;t make friends?&#8221; I spent the whole flight just tossing in my sit trying to sleep but being utterly unable to. I couldn&#8217;t gather my thoughts. Even though I was stressing about all this I still had a false sense of happiness and confidence that everything would be alright. This positive feeling increased when I reached Marseille. As soon as I got off the plane and looked at the beautiful sunrise I could help but feel lucky to be able to be there and to see the beautiful, sunny,south of France. I will admit something though meeting my host mom wasn&#8217;t a walk in the park. She was waiting for me outside of immigration and hugged me as soon as she saw me! Her niceness wasn&#8217;t and issue for me, it was the fact that I couldn&#8217;t communicate with her what so ever! it was as if I had forgotten all the French I knew! I couldn&#8217;t formulate sentences, I couldn&#8217;t understand, I was in the border of a mental breakdown because I couldn&#8217;t open my mouth with out making mistakes! Yet she seemed to understand and tried to keep me calm and show me around AIX. From then on I have been recuperating my French little by little and have gained the ability to communicate fluent and have deep conversations with French speaking people. I believe that the hardest part of studying abroad is adapting but once you do you can think of study anywhere else. This experience has been amazing so far! I have made excelente friends and have made connections with people that I thought weren&#8217;t possible. I have alsi travelled around Europe a little. Not to brag but I&#8217;ve been to Monaco and London as well as other part of southern france such as Les Gorge de St.Croixe. France is a beautiful country with a beautiful language, I wish I could stay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0359-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14550 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0359-300x225-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0478-300x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14551 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0478-300x300-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0478-300x300-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0478-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I got in the plane to go to France I felt a weird sense of nostalgia, of fear. I started thinking about how it would be like, how I would feel, if I would be able to communicate. I started to stress about living with a host family, I thought &#8220;What if they outright&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france-iau-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617","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\/433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14552,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617\/revisions\/14552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}