{"id":3091,"date":"2017-07-17T13:18:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T17:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=3091"},"modified":"2019-06-03T15:18:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T19:18:48","slug":"academicschallenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/2017\/07\/academicschallenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Academics\/Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being surrounded by thousands of people, I still fe<a href=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_0483.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3092 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_0483-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_0483-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_0483-104x138.jpg 104w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_0483.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>lt alone sometimes. I had no idea what anyone was saying. Language barrier was very difficult to deal with, but I seemed to manage. We took a French language class every other day and it seemed to help a lot with casual conversation and directions.<\/p>\n<p>I absolutely loved the courses we took during the Maymester. My favorites would have to be poultry, beef cattle\/Dairy and the food science. Although their practices are very similar to the US, it was interesting how much smaller and localized the farms were. As in France, GMOs are illegal. It is more expensive a<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3093 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_2497-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_2497-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_2497-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_2497-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_2497-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_2497.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>nd difficult to feed the livestock. I love wine and it was so much fun to visit the vineyards and learn how wine is made in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_2540.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3094\" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_2540-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_2540-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_2540-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_2540-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_2540-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_2540.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being surrounded by thousands of people, I still felt alone sometimes. I had no idea what anyone was saying. Language barrier was very difficult to deal with, but I seemed to manage. We took a French language class every other day and it seemed to help a lot with casual conversation and directions. I absolutely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,35,26,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-faculty-led","category-france","category-maymester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3101,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions\/3101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}