{"id":4874,"date":"2013-01-23T01:34:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T09:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/studyingabroad\/?p=4874"},"modified":"2013-01-23T01:34:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T09:34:33","slug":"surreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/2013\/01\/23\/surreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Surreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Is how I feel right now with heavy eyelids and my fifth cup of Kaffe in my hand starring out the window on a snowy winter Denmark. I still can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m here, across the Atlantic, on a different continent, in sub 0 deg temps (okay I can believe that much). \u00a0Studying abroad is a mixed bag of emotions not unlike a moody hormonal teenager. Initially an it&#8217;s an exciting pipe dream, then gloom in the realization that I&#8217;ll be missing my friends, missing all the happenings at school and missing all the seniors I&#8217;ve grown close to, graduate. \u00a0Later it becomes salvation, an aspiration and promise of escape from the routine and dull. Finally as time grows closer to departure, it becomes a burden of preparations. \u00a0Now I&#8217;m here. Settling in a cozy Danish house with snow lightly falling on the lake in the backyard, its serene and I&#8217;m surprised how comfortable, calm and at home I feel already. I&#8217;ve just begun realize just how much I&#8217;ve wanted to take this adventure despite the past months of highs and lows. Maybe its the jetlag wooziness&#8230;I AM a walking zombie. Falling asleep is literally a hazard.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4875\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4875\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/studyingabroad\/2013\/01\/23\/surreal\/olympus-digital-camera-19\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4875\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4875 \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2013\/01\/P1163359-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2013\/01\/P1163359-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2013\/01\/P1163359-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2013\/01\/P1163359-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2013\/01\/P1163359-624x624.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/files\/2013\/01\/P1163359.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My morning commute<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8336\/8373380464_879a947030_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">My cozy Danish room<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is how I feel right now with heavy eyelids and my fifth cup of Kaffe in my hand starring out the window on a snowy winter Denmark. I still can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m here, across the Atlantic, on a different continent, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/2013\/01\/23\/surreal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel-lim-14-denmark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}