{"id":2367,"date":"2017-03-22T11:58:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T15:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2017-03-22T11:58:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T15:58:20","slug":"pre-departure-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/2017\/03\/pre-departure-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be honest: I didn&#8217;t really have a lot of fears the moments leading up to my departure for Zurich, Switzerland. Perhaps it was due to my international background or the fact that I approach situations in an unconventional manner &#8211; I&#8217;m really not too sure.<\/p>\n<p>Large changes such as these breed immense opportunities for personal growth whereby one confronts challenges that ask of you to evaluate the priorities you&#8217;ve set for yourself in life. So as I packed my vacuum-sealed bags full of warm sweaters and thick socks, the most prominent emotion I felt was a yearning for this growth and the excitement of new experiences. Did I realize\u00a0that I&#8217;d be away from my parents and my friends and my dog for a long time? Yes. But I believe that allowing homesickness to plant a seed inside you results in it consuming you, thereby affecting the beginning portion of your program in such a way that holds you back from the full immersion into the new life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be honest: I didn&#8217;t really have a lot of fears the moments leading up to my departure for Zurich, Switzerland. Perhaps it was due to my international background or the fact that I approach situations in an unconventional manner &#8211; I&#8217;m really not too sure. Large changes such as these breed immense opportunities for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,36,8],"tags":[97,98,71,103,78,101],"class_list":["post-2367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-exchange","category-spring","tag-agdawgabroad","tag-godawgs","tag-packing","tag-studyabroad","tag-agdawgsabroad","tag-caes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367","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\/332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions\/2368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}