{"id":1448,"date":"2015-03-13T15:30:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2015-03-13T15:30:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T06:00:51","slug":"a-warm-welcome-from-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/2015\/03\/13\/a-warm-welcome-from-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"A warm welcome from Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, everyone! Nice to meet you all here. I am Denise, an exchange student studying Social Work.<\/p>\n<p>The O&#8217;WEEK \u00a0has allowed me to experience the friendly welcome from Flinders and probably you have met some friends there. I though\u00a0you had enjoyed the warm welcome from Flinders like me\u00a0and hope you have\u00a0already adapted to the life in Australia. Though here the\u00a0temperature can\u00a0reach to 40 Celsius degrees due to occasional extreme weather, I feel\u00a0 more comfortable to\u00a0such a hot\u00a0weather because of the low humidity and breeze. Due to the nature of subtropical climate, Hong Kong is humid and hot in Summer which makes you\u00a0sweaty and\u00a0feel stuffy. Also,\u00a0 sunglasses and sunscreen lotion are must items here. You can see everyone wearing sunnies outside which it is uncommon in Hong Kong. ( Hong Kong\u00a0people wearing sunnies\u00a0express a kind of fashion instead of protecting from UV). I am glad \u00a0living with my exchange buddy, Yentl in a sharing house.\u00a0She\u00a0is an\u00a0easy-going and cheerful\u00a0girl\u00a0.\u00a0My landlord is also a very nice and knowledgeable person.<\/p>\n<p>Lovely weather, lovely people here, also nice view from Brighton Beach. Look forward to exploring more unexpected\u00a0excitement in Australia.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"spotlight\" style=\"width: 484px;height: 363px\" src=\"http:\/\/scontent.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xpa1\/v\/t1.0-9\/10387630_904745786256167_8445029372274381210_n.jpg?oh=0a5f183234a7596b90a1e2ae97fbf71f&amp;oe=55863651\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, everyone! Nice to meet you all here. I am Denise, an exchange student studying Social Work. The O&#8217;WEEK \u00a0has allowed me to experience the friendly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":231,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-experience-blogs","category-inbound-student-experiences"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}