{"id":52005,"date":"2015-11-19T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/?p=52005"},"modified":"2019-01-10T17:59:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T17:59:49","slug":"flexibility-in-central-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/2015\/11\/19\/flexibility-in-central-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Flexibility in Central America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Katie is a junior at Duke University, currently studying abroad in Central America with CGEE. This is an excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/quetalkatie.weebly.com\/\">Katie\u2019s blog<\/a>. Her blog is a great resource for anyone considering study abroad in Central America!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-52007\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/11\/Katie-B-Casa-Xelaju-fall-2015-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Katie B, Casa Xelaju, fall 2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/11\/Katie-B-Casa-Xelaju-fall-2015-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/11\/Katie-B-Casa-Xelaju-fall-2015-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/11\/Katie-B-Casa-Xelaju-fall-2015.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nWhat does flexibility look like traveling in Central America?<\/p>\n<p>It looks like getting used to rescheduling your classes when they&#8217;re cancelled due to protests over corruption (Guatemala) or the building of a new canal (Nicaragua).<\/p>\n<p>\u200bIt looks like knowing your taxi or shuttle might not arrive on time, without letting that stress you out.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like figuring out how to bathe in a little den with a pot of boiling water and two buckets.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like not being scared to ask for directions every once (or twice) in a while.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like being open to making mistakes while learning a new language and understanding that you won&#8217;t understand everything. \u00a0And that&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2026And it looks like realizing that sometimes the best experiences in life are the unplanned experiences.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie is a junior at Duke University, currently studying abroad in Central America with CGEE. This is an excerpt from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53273,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52005\/revisions\/53273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}