{"id":6,"date":"2013-06-17T12:25:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T17:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/?p=6"},"modified":"2024-01-10T10:22:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T15:22:20","slug":"pre-departure-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/2013\/06\/17\/pre-departure-orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre Departure Orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/06\/hong-kong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7\" alt=\"hong kong\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/06\/hong-kong-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/06\/hong-kong-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/06\/hong-kong-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/06\/hong-kong.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before heading off to Hong Kong,\u00a0students must go through\u00a0a &#8220;pre-departure&#8221; orientation.\u00a0 This consists of several meetings in a classroom where we go over the specifics of the trip, the academic requirements,\u00a0field trip locations,\u00a0cultural excursions as well as advice on traveling abroad, health\u00a0and security.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, I also take students out to eat at a local dim sum restaurant where they can sample a taste of the food they will be eating, as well a tour of one of the largest Asian supermarkets in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before heading off to Hong Kong,\u00a0students must go through\u00a0a &#8220;pre-departure&#8221; orientation.\u00a0 This consists of several meetings in a classroom where we go over the specifics of the trip, the academic requirements,\u00a0field trip locations,\u00a0cultural excursions as well as advice on traveling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/2013\/06\/17\/pre-departure-orientation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/hongkong2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}