{"id":1059,"date":"2016-06-29T18:09:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T22:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/sla2016\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2016-06-29T18:09:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T22:09:03","slug":"around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/2016\/06\/29\/around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Between classes and living in with a French family, I really feel like I\u2019ve learned a lot over the past four weeks. \u00a0Beyond the progress I\u2019ve made in my my French, however, I also feel like the fact of being in an international environment has been a huge education. \u00a0There are students from all over the world at l\u2019Institut, so I\u2019ve had the opportunity to get to know people from different cultural backgrounds in a way that I\u2019ve never before experienced. \u00a0Obviously Notre Dame has its fair share of foreign students, but that doesn\u2019t quite compare with the student body here in Tours. \u00a0And although there have been several large contingents from American universities recently, I\u2019ve actually had relatively few Americans in my classes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two of my closest friends in Tours are from Chile and Liechtenstein, respectively. \u00a0It\u2019s been so interesting to talk to them and learn what their countries are like. \u00a0Coming from a country where you can drive for hours and still be in the same state, it has been fascinating to hear about one where it\u2019s a 30 minute drive from north to south. \u00a0And when I mentioned that I missed seeing mountains, my friend Paola told me that there are always mountains visible in Chile, no matter where you are. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve learned so much about French culture since I\u2019ve arrived, but through class discussions, presentations, and conversations outside of class, I\u2019ve also learned a lot about other places and cultures. \u00a0Having never travelled to Europe before, this trip definitely put me outside of my comfort zone, but that\u2019s exactly what I needed in order to encounter the new and unfamiliar. \u00a0My adventure in Tours is almost coming to an end, so I\u2019m trying to savor whatever exciting new experiences come my way this week. \u00a0A la prochaine!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between classes and living in with a French family, I really feel like I\u2019ve learned a lot over the past four weeks. \u00a0Beyond the progress I\u2019ve made in my my French, however, I also feel like the fact of being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/2016\/06\/29\/around-the-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73607],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}