{"id":4593,"date":"2019-06-25T11:15:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T15:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=4593"},"modified":"2023-02-24T23:46:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T04:46:08","slug":"no-ingles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/2019\/06\/no-ingles\/","title":{"rendered":"No Ingles!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in high school, we were required to take a foreign language class. I had the bright idea to take French because I wanted to be different and thought to myself I will never have to use Spanish in my life… Big mistake. High school me never thought I would be studying abroad in Spain, of all places. Because my high school French class did not prepare me for a Speaking country, I was a little concerned going into this study abroad. Before my arrival in Madrid, the only thing I knew how to say in Spanish was ‘where is the bathroom’ and ‘Hey how are you’. I didn’t even know the basics of the language but I was just going to wing it. My first two days in Madrid were manageable…most restaurants had English menus and most people spoke some sort of English. I thought ‘oh yeah I can survive here, no big deal’. Boy was I wrong… Sunday we get on our bus to drive down to Granada to meet our host families that we would be staying with for two weeks. Four and a half hours later we arrived in Granada where we are quickly hauled off the bus and immediately given into the hands of our host moms. Sam, Katie, and I were called over to meet our new mom. We all exchanged Holas and I go to ask her what her name is, in English, thinking I would get a quick response. The lady looks at me and goes “Oh no ingles haha”. I thought to myself, ‘Oh I am screwed’. The entire walk back to the house Nudia, the host mom, and Sam (fluent Spanish speaker) were chatting away in mad Spanish while I had no clue of what was going on. Nudia kept looking back at me while talking, I guess thinking I would just all of a sudden know Spanish and could answer her. The first day was rough and without Sam there to translate I would have been totally lost. With the help of my roommates, I was actually able to somewhat communicate with Nudia which I was very proud of. It was a great experience, and I believe taught me more than any Spanish class would, to be able to live and be submerged into that culture and language.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in high school, we were required to take a foreign language class. I had the bright idea to take French because I wanted to be different and thought to myself I will never have to use Spanish in my life… Big mistake. High school me never thought I would be studying abroad in Spain, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":4594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,31,23,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-led","category-food-production-culture-and-the-environment","category-maymester","category-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4593"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6907,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions\/6907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}