{"id":394,"date":"2018-04-02T15:21:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T19:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/?p=394"},"modified":"2018-04-02T15:21:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T19:21:11","slug":"broad-new-horizons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/2018\/04\/02\/broad-new-horizons\/","title":{"rendered":"Broad New Horizons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A first hand account of studying abroad in Florence, Italy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anxious and excited are the two best possible words to describe how I felt before taking off on a three-week long study abroad adventure in Florence, Italy. I\u2019ve never traveled out of the country before, let alone traveled on my own, and I didn\u2019t know what to expect. I was warned that I would experience some culture shock when I arrived at the airport in Florence. Alone, and with no knowledge of the Italian language, I became apprehensive. In a country where English is not the first language, it\u2019s obviously difficult to communicate with those around you. Luckily for me, Florence is a huge tourist area, and many of its dwellers knew English. Once I arrived at my new residence and met my American roommates, I started to become more comfortable and eager for what was to come.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the course of three weeks, I had the opportunity to meet new people and travel around the country. While I was able to enjoy the leisure of riding a gondola in Venice, and sunbathing on the turquoise beaches of Cinque Terre, I was there to study. Venice, Cinque Terre, Pisa, Livorno, and Siena were my many destinations, but Florence was my campus. During my time in the beautiful city, I took two classes. I learned how to sketch the ornate architecture of the city in a drawing class, and how to write for an audience of travelers in a travel writing class. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Studying abroad is an experience like no other. In three weeks, I learned not only how to sketch and write, but by immersing myself into a country with a foreign language, culture, and people, I was able to learn <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">independence, appreciation, and adaptability. Studying abroad was the most eye-opening experience of my life, and for anyone considering it, I highly suggest signing up for the trip of a lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A first hand account of studying abroad in Florence, Italy \u00a0Anxious and excited are the two best possible words to describe how I felt before taking off on a three-week long study abroad adventure in Florence, Italy. I\u2019ve never traveled out of the country before, let alone traveled on my own, and I didn\u2019t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}