{"id":422,"date":"2013-06-20T13:20:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T17:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=422"},"modified":"2019-06-03T15:27:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T19:27:24","slug":"before-i-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/2013\/06\/before-i-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Before I left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to spend my spring semester in Beauvais, France during the fall semester. \u00a0I never really stopped to think about what it would be like to be gone for three months while everyone at home carried on with their lives. \u00a0The people you talk to before always say &#8220;Studying abroad will change your life,&#8217; but they also say &#8220;The homesickness is the worst during the first two weeks.&#8221; \u00a0All I had to do was make it through the first two weeks, and my life was going to be changed forever.<\/p>\n<p>The first two weeks were the hardest. \u00a0The complete immersion into French was very shocking and my language skills were rusty. \u00a0I was very homesick, and I was questioning my decision to ever leave Athens. \u00a0 The french were stereotypically difficult to talk to without a sound background in French. \u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">I started making friends though, and my french quickly came back.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">\u00a0 Although my program was taught in English, the rest of the university spoke almost solely french, which came as quite a surprise to most of us. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Then I started to spend my weekends in Paris, which was only an hour a fifteen minute train ride. \u00a0I got comfortable with trains and metro systems. \u00a0I made friends from all over France and the world. \u00a0The more confident I got with my french, the better my life in France became.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to spend my spring semester in Beauvais, France during the fall semester. \u00a0I never really stopped to think about what it would be like to be gone for three months while everyone at home carried on with their lives. \u00a0The people you talk to before always say &#8220;Studying abroad will change your life,&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,36,26,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-exchange","category-france","category-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}