Less than a month, actually. I still can\u2019t believe that I signed up for a study abroad trip that goes to five countries in eighteen days. As I prepared for the Art and Gardens Grand Tour, I was honestly a little nervous. I was nervous about what to pack, because I have never travelled this far or this long. I was nervous about the timing of the trip, because I walked at graduation (on my birthday! Wahoo!) 12 hours before my flight, and I had to start summer job training the day after my return flight home. I was even nervous about the language barriers, because I knew nothing about Italian or French besides \u201cCiao,\u201d \u201cBonjour,\u201d and \u201cOui.\u201d And how much is a British Pound, really?<\/p>\n
Now would be the time, however, to remind myself of the enormity of my situation; I am going to Europe! <\/em>Not only that, but I am following in the footsteps of the famous trek that learned scholars had taken for hundreds of years<\/em> before me, to learn and see and taste and touch the art, gardens, and culture of Western Europe! Now my fears seem so silly when I realize how blessed I am to be here. Besides, Pinterest and Google Translate are at my disposal in case of a packing or language emergency.<\/p>\n No more time for entertaining silly fears. This is finally happening; I have waited for this class for the entire semester. Deep breath, Briel. Fasten your seatbelt. You have 5 countries and 11 cities to see, and a whole lot of life to experience. I hope I take good notes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Less than a month, actually. I still can\u2019t believe that I signed up for a study abroad trip that goes to five countries in eighteen days. As I prepared for the Art and Gardens Grand Tour, I was honestly a little nervous. I was nervous about what to pack, because I have never travelled this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,35,23,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-faculty-led","category-maymester","category-the-grand-tour-art-and-gardens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}