{"id":958,"date":"2015-05-22T05:07:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T09:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=958"},"modified":"2019-06-03T15:27:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T19:27:02","slug":"an-american-in-toulouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/2015\/05\/an-american-in-toulouse\/","title":{"rendered":"An American in Toulouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bonjour! I am currently sitting at my laptop browsing through websites in a frantic attempt to learn French, trying to think of anything I may have forgotten to pack and intently watching <em>An American in Paris<\/em> (one of my favorite movies) for the 10th time today trying to observe everything I can about French culture- the language, mannerisms, food, clothing, etc. (while also keeping in mind that this is just a movie and probably not accurate at all). I have quickly realized these are not things that I can learn overnight. Reality hit me after I checked in online at British Airways. I leave for Toulouse, France in less than 24 hours.<br \/>\nI am overwhelmed with emotions- mainly anxiety and excitement. Although I have flown out of the country before, I\u2019m still concerned about a few things. The 8+ hour plane ride, communicating with french people and navigating through the different cities make me slightly nervous. However, I am more excited than worried. I\u2019m excited to experience new people, places, food and everything else that France has to offer! I look forward to fully immersing myself in French culture. We have a full itinerary and I\u2019m eager to engage in every activity and learning experience.<br \/>\nI am so fortunate to attend a university that offers this amazing opportunity. Moreover, I am extremely grateful that I was awarded the Deans\u2019 Promise International Travel Scholarship. I absolutely love my college. This Ag Dawg is going abroad and I could not be more ecstatic.<br \/>\nThe weather is supposed to be warm and dry for the first week. I hope it stays that way for the entire trip! The next time I write I will be in France. Au revoir!<\/p>\n<p>Courtney J.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bonjour! I am currently sitting at my laptop browsing through websites in a frantic attempt to learn French, trying to think of anything I may have forgotten to pack and intently watching An American in Paris (one of my favorite movies) for the 10th time today trying to observe everything I can about French culture- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,35,26,23,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-faculty-led","category-france","category-maymester","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","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\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}