{"id":2270,"date":"2011-08-19T21:15:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T04:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/studyingabroad\/?p=2270"},"modified":"2013-04-01T08:21:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:21:51","slug":"what-city-smarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/2011\/08\/19\/what-city-smarts\/","title":{"rendered":"What City Smarts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My mother bought me a wedding ring at a crafts fair in Bigfork, MT. She bought it on the advice of my aunt who said I should wear one for the purpose of diverting unwanted attention. Good point, I thought, but I nervously laughed all the same. My aunt also gave me the advice of always traveling at night with a friend and in general “using my city smarts”. Um excuse me? I don’t have any of those. This is a girl who grew up walking a half-mile through the woods to her best friend’s house, not just down the block. A girl who has an outhouse and carries bear spray, not mace. When I went to NYC with a friend she scorned me for jaywalking (I was just doing what THEY did) and putting money back in my bag while walking down the street (I could have gotten mugged).<\/p>\n

The moral of this story is: I’m going<\/p>\n

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I’m excited, don’t get me wrong, this will be life changing, unbelievable, fun, adventurous, different, insane, etc. but I have a list of what I am apprehensive of too.<\/p>\n

LIST OF SCARY THINGS<\/p>\n

#1) 13 degrees North of the Equator. I hate the heat.<\/p>\n

#2) I don’t want to get sick. Or get worms, or some other bug. Everyone has a story of getting sick and I want to be the miracle girl who doesn’t.<\/p>\n

#3) I’m not the biggest fan of fish and apparently thats a huge part of every meal.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly being part of the ‘Big City Life’ is not what scares me, that is only what scares the people who worry about me. But if that is all I can come up with there are SO many more things that I do look forward to that this trip will be fantastic.<\/p>\n

Signing off,<\/p>\n

Gaelyn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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