{"id":770,"date":"2013-05-19T07:31:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T07:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/?p=770"},"modified":"2013-05-26T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T07:45:00","slug":"twas-the-night-before-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/2013\/05\/19\/twas-the-night-before-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Twas the Night Before China"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Packing, trying to stay awake so I can sleep on the plane, and fighting off a virus: that\u2019s what I am doing as I prepare to leave America and travel to China. I am a terrible packer because I bring way more than I will ever need, but I used vacuum pack bags in order to bring plenty of clothes. I am apparently a very high maintenance traveler, but I\u2019m okay with that.<\/p>\n

I woke up this morning with a terrible stomach virus. That\u2019s just my luck, by the way. I hope it isn\u2019t an omen of how the trip will be. As the day has turned into night, my virus has gotten a bit better, so hopefully I will not have to use the necessary bags on the plane, if you catch my drift.<\/p>\n

I am so excited about this trip. I know that it is going to be the experience of a lifetime, and I can\u2019t wait to soak it all in. I am very sad to miss Mother\u2019s Day and my brother\u2019s high school graduation, but my family wanted me to be able to experience this. I will just have to make it up to them with A LOT of gifts.<\/p>\n

I am a bit nervous about traveling and living in a foreign land. My little brother prayed, \u201cGod please wrap everyone on the trip in your arms.\u201d The prayer was perfect, and I know God\u2019s arms will be wrapped around us. It is so amazing to be able to do something like this, and I am so thankful for the tremendous blessing.<\/p>\n

I hope to make some new friends, especially Chinese friends, to be immersed in the Chinese culture, and to learn a lot about myself in the process. I cannot even fathom what it is going to be like when I get there. All I can imagine is a whole new world, and that is so fascinating to me.<\/p>\n

China here I come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Packing, trying to stay awake so I can sleep on the plane, and fighting off a virus: that\u2019s what I am doing as I prepare to leave America and travel to China. I am a terrible packer because I bring way more than I will ever need, but I used vacuum pack bags in order to bring plenty of clothes. I am apparently a very high maintenance traveler, but I\u2019m okay with that. I woke up this morning with a terrible stomach virus. That\u2019s just my luck, by the way. I hope it isn\u2019t an omen of how the trip … \/\/ Read more<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[157,47,56,52,54,53,57,55],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","tag-china","tag-packing","tag-student","tag-study-abroad","tag-suitcase","tag-travel","tag-una","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}