{"id":17589,"date":"2022-07-12T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=17589"},"modified":"2023-03-09T12:59:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T18:59:04","slug":"brussels-belgium-weekend-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/2022\/07\/12\/brussels-belgium-weekend-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels, Belgium, weekend trip!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am studying abroad in Galway, Ireland, but we had a free weekend to travel. I went to Brussels, Belgium! I had about 40 hours there total, and it was one of the best experiences of my life. The city is very diverse, and almost everyone is bilingual; speaking English and French. It was very sunny and warm, which was refreshing compared to Ireland where it is always cold, rainy and windy. I had a realization in Brussels \u2014 that I truly love traveling and meeting new people who are so different from me. I learned that I am capable of much more than I think, and my identity abroad is developing. Everyone was very kind and the city felt as if I belonged there. I hope to return to Belgium in my future.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52231967198_5c31cb4a18_c.jpg\" alt=\"Quincy smiling as the sunlight glows on the historic Belgium buildings in the square.\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grand Place in Brussels, Belgium \u2014 pictures do not do the beauty of this place justice!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 643px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52230961302_29ec5f803d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Old-fashioned balconied buildings line the street on a blue sky, cloudy day.\" width=\"643\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picture of a random street in Brussels, Belgium. The city is breathtaking!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"card-body\" style=\"background: #D7D7D7\">Learn more about this blogger&#8217;s study abroad program: <a href=\"https:\/\/mystudyabroad.missouri.edu\/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ProgramDiscovery&amp;search=[{%22filterType%22:%22programDiscoveryKeyword%22,%22filterValues%22:[{%22value%22:%22Global%22},{%22value%22:%22Mizzou%22},{%22value%22:%22Service%3A%22},{%22value%22:%22Working%22},{%22value%22:%22with%22},{%22value%22:%22Vulnerable%22},{%22value%22:%22Adult%22},{%22value%22:%22Populations%22},{%22value%22:%22in%22},{%22value%22:%22Ireland%22}]}]\">Global Mizzou Service: Working with Vulnerable Adult Populations in Ireland<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am studying abroad in Galway, Ireland, but we had a free weekend to travel. I went to Brussels, Belgium! I had about 40 hours there total, and it was one of the best experiences of my life. The city is very diverse, and almost everyone is bilingual; speaking English and French. It was very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[207,204],"class_list":["post-17589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-belgium","tag-ireland"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17589"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18480,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17589\/revisions\/18480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}