{"id":20757,"date":"2025-01-30T14:53:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T20:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=20757"},"modified":"2025-02-05T15:25:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T21:25:49","slug":"cultural-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/2025\/01\/30\/cultural-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During my first week of studying abroad, I took the cultural introduction class, where I traveled across Italy and saw many attractions. As someone who has never been to Europe before, this experience has been surreal. I was able to visit: Orvieto, Perugia, Rome and Vatican City. During just my short time abroad, I have made many friends from across the country. I have met people from Johnson and Wales, Endicott College and Penn State, to name a few. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2qK7YKU\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54309225906_9ae7cf31df.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2769\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">East Coast friends in Perugia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This picture is of two friends I made from Endicott and one friend from Mizzou. It is nice talking to everyone abroad as everyone is friendly and trying to make friends. I have just arrived in Florence and have met my six other roommates. I hope to get along with them and make great memories while abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about this blogger\u2019s study abroad program: <a href=\"https:\/\/mystudyabroad.missouri.edu\/_portal\/tds-program-brochure?programid=11334\">Florence University of the Arts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my first week of studying abroad, I took the cultural introduction class, where I traveled across Italy and saw many attractions. As someone who has never been to Europe before, this experience has been surreal. I was able to visit: Orvieto, Perugia, Rome and Vatican City. During just my short time abroad, I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[185],"class_list":["post-20757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-italy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20757","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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20781,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20757\/revisions\/20781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}