{"id":6219,"date":"2022-06-30T16:15:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T20:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2023-02-24T21:15:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T02:15:34","slug":"living-in-a-camper-van-for-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/2022\/06\/living-in-a-camper-van-for-a-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in a Camper Van for a Month?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a part of my internship, through the International Agriculture Certificate Program, I am completing a month-long internship\/work placement in France. Being a student working towards their French minor and having studied the language for over 6 years, I didn\u2019t really feel much fear when embarking on this trip. I have found that studying a language for years is quite different than speaking it and actually being immersed in the culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I currently am participating in a UGA Exchange, at UniLaSalle, where I have completed a month of studies at their campus in Beauvais, France and am now working on completing a month of work-placement\/internship on a medicinal herbs and plants farm in Mogn\u00e9ville, France (about 2 and a half hours East of Paris). Being at UniLaSalle, I was surrounded by 7 other students like me, students studying abroad from universities in the U.S., meaning other fluent English speakers. Before leaving to come to my work-placement, I was informed that the host family I would be staying with only spoke French. For me, this was both exciting and a little nerve wracking. At the beginning of this program, I felt fairly confident in my French speaking skills, having practiced in a classroom for a while, but would I be able to speak only French and fluent French for a month? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upon arrival, I felt a mix of fear and excitement, not truly knowing what to expect. For one, I would be living in a camper van for a month, and additionally, I would only be around native-French speakers. Could I handle this? Having been here already for a couple of weeks, I can confirm that my irrational fears were just that, irrational. I have been welcomed with kindness and enthusiasm by my host family and have truly experienced some of the best experiences of my life while I\u2019ve been here. Not only have I made new connections and learned more about the French language and culture, but I have learned about farming and the different medicinal properties of different plants and all that goes into cultivating them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although I was initially a bit nervous for this trip, I am so grateful to be on it and for everything that I have learned. From my little camper van, to my acquisition of knowledge about the French language and culture, I can truly say that this has been a once-in-a-lifetime experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As a part of my internship, through the International Agriculture Certificate Program, I am completing a month-long internship\/work placement in France. Being a student working towards their French minor and having studied the language for over 6 years, I didn\u2019t really feel much fear when embarking on this trip. I have found that studying a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,11],"tags":[97,158,157,101],"class_list":["post-6219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-summer","tag-agdawgabroad","tag-farm-internationalagcertificate","tag-france","tag-caes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219","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=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6829,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions\/6829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}