{"id":4517,"date":"2017-08-24T13:53:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T04:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/?p=4517"},"modified":"2017-08-24T13:53:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T04:23:47","slug":"tarragona-travels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/2017\/08\/24\/tarragona-travels\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarragona Travels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So it&#8217;s approximately 3 weeks until I leave for Spain to start my exchange. 21 days until I pack up my belongings and leave the comfort of my house, my family, my friends and an English speaking culture. I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m not nervous but I think the excitement of studying abroad is overtaking the nerves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The thoughts of warm sunny weather instead of rainy grey skies makes me wish I was leaving now. Then I remember that I&#8217;m going to country where I can barely speak the basics and am happy to have a little extra time.<\/p>\n<p>I have been researching the little spainsh town of Tarragona, which is just south of Barcelona in the catalonia region, and it looks stunning. I feel like I might not be ready to go just yet but I can not wait to emmerse myself in the beautiful spanish culture and cuisine (in particular) that awaits me.<br \/>\n<em><strong><br \/>\nEliza Daly ,\u00a0Bachelor of Science (Animal Behaviour)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>student,\u00a0Semester 2 2017 exchange at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urv.cat\/en\/\">Universitat Rovira I Virgili<\/a>, Spain<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s approximately 3 weeks until I leave for Spain to start my exchange. 21 days until I pack up my belongings and leave the comfort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":504,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[82,607,194,198,428,444,604,608,603,605,606],"class_list":["post-4517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-experience-blogs","category-outbound-student-experiences","tag-bachelor-of-science-animal-behaviour","tag-barcelona","tag-flinders-learn-without-borders","tag-food","tag-semester-exchange","tag-spain","tag-spanish","tag-spanish-culture","tag-tarragona","tag-universitat-rovira-i-virgili","tag-urv"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517","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\/504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}