{"id":115,"date":"2016-08-06T20:27:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T03:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hannahps\/?p=115"},"modified":"2016-08-06T20:27:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T03:27:53","slug":"4-weeks-pre-departure-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hannahps\/2016\/08\/06\/4-weeks-pre-departure-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"4 weeks pre-departure: thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer has really gone by in a flash, wow.<\/p>\n<p>Although I don&#8217;t really consider myself a &#8216;blogger&#8217; (although what makes one a &#8216;blogger&#8217; anyway?), I&#8217;ve decided that the only way to make the most of my amazing opportunity is to blog it.<\/p>\n<p>For those who are not filled in on my amazing opportunity: I am doing a semester abroad (September to December) at the University of Edinburgh through the Go Global program. I&#8217;ll be taking classes, but not working &#8211; so tons of free time to explore!<\/p>\n<p>The basics (since the only people who read my blog before were classmates and professors, when it was for an assignment, plus my mom!):<br \/>\n-I&#8217;m Hannah, half Scottish, all Canadian, heading into fourth year at UBC, not graduating on time (who does, these days?)<br \/>\n-I am an English major, and before you ask,\u00a0<em>yes<\/em>, I really love Shakespeare<br \/>\n-Also partial to dark chocolate, white wine, and really great salads<br \/>\n-I&#8217;m a Vancouverite through and through (ie. I like kale, yoga, and biking the seawall)<br \/>\n-I have a sister who will likely be mentioned frequently as she is my best friend; she was born in Edinburgh when we lived there (I was 6)<\/p>\n<p>Things you can look forward to in the next five-ish months: rambling, travel photos, travel stories, the occasional rant, interesting quotes, food, family, and hopefully some kind of educational experience.<\/p>\n<p>A preview of my history in Edinburgh &#8211; dug through the photo albums and found some gems:<br \/>\n&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hannahps\/files\/2016\/08\/20160806_195545-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-116\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hannahps\/files\/2016\/08\/20160806_195545-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"20160806_195545-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hannahps\/files\/2016\/08\/20160806_195545-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hannahps\/files\/2016\/08\/20160806_195545-1-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Me\u00a0hiking Arthur&#8217;s seat! I will have to recreate this one, but minus my childhood doll &#8211; she won&#8217;t be making the trek over with me this time \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hannahps\/files\/2016\/08\/20160806_195550-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-117\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hannahps\/files\/2016\/08\/20160806_195550-1-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"20160806_195550-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hannahps\/files\/2016\/08\/20160806_195550-1-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hannahps\/files\/2016\/08\/20160806_195550-1-1024x660.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My primary school in Edinburgh! I went there for about six months and learned cursive, then came back here and was told I couldn&#8217;t use it since we don&#8217;t learn it in Canada until grade 3 (two years later).<\/p>\n<p>If anyone has any travel tips, words of wisdom, or favourite spots in Edinburgh, let me know! I&#8217;ll be back shortly before I leave!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer has really gone by in a flash, wow. Although I don&#8217;t really consider myself a &#8216;blogger&#8217; (although what makes one a &#8216;blogger&#8217; anyway?), I&#8217;ve decided that the only way to make the most of my amazing opportunity is to blog it. For those who are not filled in on my amazing opportunity: I am doing a semester abroad (September to December) at the University of Edinburgh through the Go Global program. I&#8217;ll be taking classes, but not working &#8211; so tons of free time to explore! The basics&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hannahps\/2016\/08\/06\/4-weeks-pre-departure-thoughts\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","et-no-image","et-bg-layout-dark","et-white-bg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hannahps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hannahps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hannahps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hannahps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hannahps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hannahps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hannahps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hannahps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hannahps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hannahps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}