{"id":22248,"date":"2026-06-03T16:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=22248"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:06:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:06:27","slug":"adios-espana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/2026\/06\/03\/adios-espana\/","title":{"rendered":"Adios Espa\u00f1a"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I cannot believe this is my last study abroad blog post! To say these last five months FLEW by is an understatement. I have been back in the U.S. for a week now, so I am going to write about the thing I miss most from Alicante and studying abroad. My host mom! She was truly the most special part of this entire experience. I learned so much from her, and not just Spanish. We would talk for hours over dinner, and with each conversation, she taught me something valuable. I will be forever grateful for her, and I miss her so much already!!! I am lucky we can still text every day.<\/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\/2sgn2f5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55307817484_61e1aca541_z.jpg\" alt=\"My host mom and I\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">My host mom and I<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you get the opportunity to study abroad, I highly recommend living with a host family. They teach you so much and provide culture that you just can\u2019t get anywhere else. Plus, you get a new lifelong friend!<\/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\/2sgkNMP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55307580481_018b838a30_z.jpg\" alt=\"Last night in Alicante\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Last night in Alicante<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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=10025\">ALI Abroad: University of Alicante<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot believe this is my last study abroad blog post! To say these last five months FLEW by is an understatement. I have been back in the U.S. for a week now, so I am going to write about the thing I miss most from Alicante and studying abroad. My host mom! She was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[177],"class_list":["post-22248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-spain"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22263,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248\/revisions\/22263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}