{"id":1626,"date":"2019-06-19T08:32:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T12:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2019-10-27T14:05:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T18:05:48","slug":"test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/2019\/06\/19\/test\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello! Today is June 19th \u2014 exactly one week after I\u2019ve arrived in Japan. Although I\u2019m still adjusting to the time difference, my experience so far has been amazing. The first few days I stayed in a hotel with the rest of the students that are attending the same program. We went through a long and tedious, yet necessary orientation regarding Japanese culture, how to interact with out host families, and what to expect to get out of the program. It seemed a bit overwhelming at the time, but now that classes have started I\u2019ve settled down a little bit. After staying at the hotel (and eating some pretty amazing food) we were all assigned to our host families.<\/span><\/p>\n

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My host family is a mother, father, and two big dogs \u2014 Tony and Mary. I\u2019ve been living with them for a few days, but I\u2019ve already grown more comfortable speaking Japanese with them. I\u2019ve also determined that they can hardly speak any English, so while it will be a struggle at times, I know my Japanese will improve a lot. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Furthermore, class has also been pretty fun. Our teacher, <\/span>\u91ce\u9593\u5148\u751f<\/span> (Ms. Noma), seems like a super cheer upbeat and cheerful teacher. I was initially nervous about having class for three hours a day, five days a week, but I\u2019ve learned that the time is divided up smartly amongst three periods, with adequate breaks in-between. Furthermore class has also been quite entertaining, so the time passes by quickly. But although it\u2019s been fun so far, I\u2019ve realized how much more Japanese there is that I need to learn. It will be interesting to see how far I\u2019ve come when I check in next.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello! Today is June 19th \u2014 exactly one week after I\u2019ve arrived in Japan. Although I\u2019m still adjusting to the time difference, my experience so far has been amazing. The first few days I stayed in a hotel with the rest of the students that are attending the same program. We went through a long … Continue reading Initial Thoughts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}