{"id":42,"date":"2018-06-20T03:21:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T08:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/valencia-spain-summer-2018\/?p=42"},"modified":"2018-06-20T03:21:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T08:21:41","slug":"my-first-taste-in-a-foreign-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/valencia-spain-summer-2018\/2018\/06\/20\/my-first-taste-in-a-foreign-country\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Taste in a Foreign Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Monday June 18th 2018<\/strong>,<br \/>\nI arrived to a brand new country with fellow students and our professor. I did not know what to expect in taking this once in a life time opportunity except to make the most out of it. This is the first time I have left the country of the United States let alone the continent of North America.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-45 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/valencia-spain-summer-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2018\/06\/20180618_132454-1-e1529482820456-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now that I have had a couple of days to settle down, I have already come to love the experience. I feel like I am a new-born who has just entered the world with open eyes. I realized that the language barrier is an obstacle that will take time to overcome but, I have put my utmost effort into attempting to understand the bare bones. It became very evident when I tried ordering breakfast in the morning. The key to utilizing the little Spanish skills I have was my hand gestures. I may have looked like a hooligan to the customers behind me but I was able to get my point across. In other&#8217;s eyes it may have seemed that I was embarrassed but I enjoyed every second of the interaction. As this journey continues, I will contribute 100% of myself to make meaningful experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday June 18th 2018, I arrived to a brand new country with fellow students and our professor. I did not know what to expect in taking this once in a life time opportunity except to make the most out of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/valencia-spain-summer-2018\/2018\/06\/20\/my-first-taste-in-a-foreign-country\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":699,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/valencia-spain-summer-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/valencia-spain-summer-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/valencia-spain-summer-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/valencia-spain-summer-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/valencia-spain-summer-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/valencia-spain-summer-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/valencia-spain-summer-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/valencia-spain-summer-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/valencia-spain-summer-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/valencia-spain-summer-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}