{"id":408,"date":"2015-07-06T15:55:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T19:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/?p=408"},"modified":"2021-01-11T19:57:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T19:57:23","slug":"argentina-josh-miller-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/2015\/07\/06\/argentina-josh-miller-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Miller:  Post 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2015\/07\/image11-e1436212386423.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-411\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2015\/07\/image11-e1436212386423-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"image11\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Josh Miller<br \/>\nH-SC May Term Abroad<br \/>\nMendoza,\u00a0 Argentina<br \/>\nSummer 2015<\/p>\n<p>June 30th<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been home for a few days now. I was surprised how large the shock would be returning to an English speaking community. Many of my classmates and I were still saying \u201cpor favor\u201d and \u201cgracias\u201d without thinking. I am somewhat relieved though to be back in the states.<\/p>\n<p>I really became close with my second host family. I enjoyed getting to know the kids and grandparents during the weekly asado\u2019s on Sundays. I\u2019ll also miss the family\u2019shyper border collie, S\u00edmon. I know that I\u2019ll keep in touch with them and hope to visit them again in the future. They made me feel like a member of their family and for that I am very thankful. My host family really made my time abroad memorable and enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2015\/07\/image10-1-e1436212422984.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-410\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2015\/07\/image10-1-e1436212422984-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"image10 (1)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My main piece of advice for students going abroad is to speak up if there is an issue with your host family. At first I was worried about speaking up about my problems with the host family. I did not want to make the family upset, or for them to lose money(since they are paid to host students). However, I was lucky enough to have the support of Dr. Palmer and Dr. Thornton who helped guide me through the process of switching host families. After switching host families, my whole experience changed for the better. I realized how important the host family\u2019s role is in the experience of studying abroad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2015\/07\/image9-1-e1436212443612.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-409\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2015\/07\/image9-1-e1436212443612-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"image9 (1)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll never forget my time abroad and I will look back on it as one of the best experiences of my life. I encourage all students to study abroad and to be immersed in a foreign culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Miller H-SC May Term Abroad Mendoza,\u00a0 Argentina Summer 2015 June 30th I\u2019ve been home for a few days now. I was surprised how large the shock would be returning to an English speaking community. Many of my classmates and I were still saying \u201cpor favor\u201d and \u201cgracias\u201d without thinking. I am somewhat relieved though to be back in the states. I really became close with my second host family. I enjoyed getting to know the kids and grandparents during the weekly asado\u2019s on Sundays. I\u2019ll also miss the family\u2019shyper border collie, S\u00edmon. I know that I\u2019ll keep in touch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,4],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-summer","category-may-term","tag-argentina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/2483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}