{"id":2098,"date":"2016-11-17T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2016-11-17T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T20:37:07","slug":"here-we-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/2016\/11\/here-we-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Here We Go!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three words come to mind as I begin my countdown to Costa Rica: anxiety, excitement, and uncertainty. However, I am more than thrilled that I have been given the opportunity to experience a new culture through the University. Many questions are popping through my head as I begin packing\u00a0what I believe to be the essentials- rain jacket, flashlight, hiking gear, bug spray, outfits for dinner, the whole nine yards. Will I be able to understand the language? How different are the cultures of Costa Rica and the United States? How many new people am I going to stay in touch with after \u00a0I leave? Is this going to be a life-altering experience? I have an extremely positive outlook for what is in store for me. Not only will I be receiving course credit to help me reach my undergraduate degree, but I will also be meeting farmers who make the coffee I serve every morning at my job, and I will be able to share experiences as wished for with my fellow colleagues and family when I return.<\/p>\n

I chose this program because I wanted to find ways to develop myself more in a personal and professional way, while not having to give up an entire semester away from friends and family. I came across this trip and immediately thought, “I. LOVE. COFFEE.” If that wasn’t a good enough reason, I also had a friend who had signed up for the trip, so I knew I would have at least one familiar face with me. I have never traveled internationally, and frankly, I never thought I would. I come from a town of 18,000 citizens, and I liked that. It was safe, comfortable, and easy. Once I heard about this trip, it was a sign that I needed to stop looking for safe, comfortable, and easy and start looking for uncertain, perplexing, and challenging.<\/p>\n

I decided to snap a photo of my luggage because a picture is worth a thousand words. Three bags full of uncertainty of what is ahead, but three bags of excitement for what is down the road. I don’t know what I will learn or how my life is about to change, but I am ready to find out.<\/p>\n

Here we go!\u00a0\"blog-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three words come to mind as I begin my countdown to Costa Rica: anxiety, excitement, and uncertainty. However, I am more than thrilled that I have been given the opportunity to experience a new culture through the University. Many questions are popping through my head as I begin packing\u00a0what I believe to be the essentials- […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":318,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,33,35,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coffee-from-bean-to-cup","category-costa-rica","category-faculty-led","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}