{"id":2257,"date":"2017-03-01T15:16:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T20:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2017-03-01T15:16:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T20:16:38","slug":"scotland-here-i-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/2017\/03\/scotland-here-i-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland, Here I Come"},"content":{"rendered":"

286. I have spent the majority of my life in the same 286 square miles. My parents, sister,\u00a0and I lived on 13 acres of land, surrounded by forest, pastures, and chicken houses. I thought the community was large growing up, but compared to what I know now, it is considered a small community. I graduated at the only high school in the county with approximately 300 people in my graduating class, most of whom I knew. Being raised in a rural, Georgia town, the farthest I have ever been from home is to Indianapolis, a 578 mile road trip or 45 minute flight. Never have I ever\u00a0crossed the Mississippi River, let alone ventured\u00a0to another country.\u00a0But in less than four days, I will be boarding a\u00a0nine hour flight \u00a0to spend a week in Scotland. When applying for the Scotland Study Abroad trip, I knew that even if I wasn’t let into the program I wanted to travel and see the world. On September 17th, I walked into UGA’s Tate Building and applied for my very first passport. I got so excited\u00a0when I was\u00a0collecting the correct paperwork and saving the\u00a0money to buy this one piece of paper that would allow me to see the world outside of America.\u00a0It felt like Christmas morning when a month later my passport arrived in the mail and a month after that I was accepted into the Scotland Study Abroad trip. It is daunting to think that in a few short days\u00a0I will soon leave my comfort zone of 286 square miles\u00a0to travel 3,932 miles. As nervous as I am for this, I\u00a0can’t help but be\u00a0overwhelmed with joy\u00a0to experience this opportunity of a lifetime. Even more so, I know that after going to Scotland, I will be excited\u00a0and ready to see\u00a0any part of the world. Scotland, here I come.<\/p>\n

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286. I have spent the majority of my life in the same 286 square miles. My parents, sister,\u00a0and I lived on 13 acres of land, surrounded by forest, pastures, and chicken houses. I thought the community was large growing up, but compared to what I know now, it is considered a small community. I graduated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,85,9,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-led","category-scotland","category-spring-break","category-youth-engagement-in-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","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\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/2260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}