{"id":2998,"date":"2017-06-27T13:27:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T17:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2017-06-27T13:27:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T17:27:42","slug":"i-dont-even-know-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/2017\/06\/i-dont-even-know-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don’t Even Know Spanish!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very, very nervous! I\u2019m sitting in the airport right now, waiting for our flight to Quito. I\u2019ve been here approximately 2 hours and the flight isn\u2019t for another hour or so. We left Athens around noon on a UGA bus. I didn\u2019t know those things could be taken off-campus\/on the highway. I tried to sleep, but couldn\u2019t get quite comfortable enough. The bus dropped us off at the domestic terminal, so we had to check our bags there then take a shuttle to the international terminal. Our group got split up for a bit, which was a little unnerving to be honest. When we got to the international terminal there was a cutout of the Ludacris directing passengers to the TSA line. Getting through was easy enough, didn\u2019t have any reason to be nervous either way. SO now I am just sitting, charging my laptop, and listening to music. The flight is only 5 hours, a lot shorter than I thought. I feel like there\u2019s a common assumption that S. America is directly below N. America, but its offset to the east a bit more.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not entirely sure what to expect. I don\u2019t speak Spanish besides very elementary terms\/phrases I learned sophomore year of high school. The language barrier should be interesting, I hope a lot of the people we interact with speak English. It\u2019s supposedly South America\u2019s \u201cwinter\u201d\/rainy season. I wonder what their cold is like. I hope the Galapagos isn\u2019t too cold to swim in the ocean. I\u2019m really hoping to swim with a sea turtle. I only have one goal for this trip (besides furthering my knowledge), to take a picture in a hollowed-out tortoise shell.<\/p>\n

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Very, very nervous! I\u2019m sitting in the airport right now, waiting for our flight to Quito. I\u2019ve been here approximately 2 hours and the flight isn\u2019t for another hour or so. We left Athens around noon on a UGA bus. I didn\u2019t know those things could be taken off-campus\/on the highway. I tried to sleep, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":420,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,35,23,61],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecuador","category-faculty-led","category-maymester","category-tropical-entomology-in-ecuador-and-the-galapagos","tag-atlanta-international-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","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\/420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3039,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}