{"id":3699,"date":"2018-07-24T16:47:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T20:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=3699"},"modified":"2019-06-03T15:14:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T19:14:31","slug":"back-to-the-good-ole-u-s-of-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/2018\/07\/back-to-the-good-ole-u-s-of-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the good ole U S of A"},"content":{"rendered":"

Returning back home made me very happy, but also very sad that I was leaving behind the world of new experiences we had built in France. I never thought I would be as happy as I was when I saw my first Chickfil-A billboard in the United States, but I was ecstatic to eat my delicious, succulent, and crispy fried chicken sandwich and waffle fries with a large ICED sweet tea. Who knew that ice was a cultural difference between the US and France, none the less it is a big game changer when it comes to adding quality to your beverage. However, I never thought I’d crave the local culinary skills too, but the roasted duck I had tried was calling my name just after the 2nd week of being back state-side. I truly enjoyed the experience I had abroad by interacting with the local people, food, and culture. The friends I made while studying there, are friends I can return to visit in the future and are of great quality just like my American friends. The food will never be forgotten as I can attest that French cuisine is something not to be taken lightly because after eating good for 3 weeks of living there, I gained 5 pounds. Although I did gain some weight, I would like to say I think it was partly healthy weight because the French lifestyle made us walk… a ton! However walking everywhere felt really good to me and I liked that it was the normal thing to do instead of driving from place to place. I enjoyed the scenic views we had through the French countryside, but like Ray Charles sang it best, “I’ll always have Georgia on my mind.”\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Returning back home made me very happy, but also very sad that I was leaving behind the world of new experiences we had built in France. I never thought I would be as happy as I was when I saw my first Chickfil-A billboard in the United States, but I was ecstatic to eat my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":486,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699","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\/486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3704,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions\/3704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}