{"id":49,"date":"2016-10-11T07:51:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T12:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/?p=49"},"modified":"2016-10-11T07:51:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T12:51:21","slug":"best-weekend-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/2016\/10\/best-weekend-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Best weekend so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! I hope you are doing well. Welcome to this week\u2019s post of Sigma Nu Zeta Omicron. There&#8217;s not so much different than usual that happened last week. Still, something very good happened during the weekend. I will get there in a moment. If you are one of those people that just likes to jump to the main part, go ahead to the next paragraph. If you stayed here I will tell you what happened now that I&#8217;ve reached the middle of the semester. My volleyball classes are over. That\u2019s because they were half-semester classes. Our last day was very nice, we had candies and also played two sets. I felt kind of sad because that probably was the last time I was playing volleyball with my classmates and I really had a great time with them in my classes. I think you can say that bad things start to come at the middle of the semester: the end of the most fun classes and midterms. So far I handled both of them alright. I don\u2019t miss my volleyball classes that much, and I did well on my midterms so far. The only thing that is left to solve is what I will do with my Tuesdays and Thursdays now with the absence of my coolest class openiung a hole of free time from 10:20 a.m. (time my art class finishes) to 5 p.m. (time I go to work). I don\u2019t like the Idea of doing nothing. I will probably put the time towards going to the gym. I don&#8217;t think you can say something like \u201cI have nothing to do,\u201d being a University of Iowa student. There\u2019s always something to do, both for your courses or entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we are speaking of things to do, let me tell you the greatest thing I had this weekend. A friend of mine invited me to go with her to a Latin America event. It was a dinner, where they would serve food from Venezuela and other South America countries and a group would present Brazilian dances. And I was like: \u201cok, it\u2019s worth going. I haven\u2019t seen anything of my hometown here yet.&#8221; I have no regrets. The food was fantastic and the dances were very accurate too. I really felt at home seeing all the dances that reminded me of my country. I was very happy by the end of the show. I also had the chance to speak with one of the dancers and I finally spoke Portuguese in person with someone! I mean, I still speak Portuguese with my family and girlfriend on face-time, but it&#8217;s not the same as speaking in person. I went back to my dorm very happy. I can\u2019t explain exactly why. Maybe it was because the dances reminded me of moments I had in Brazil during my life. Some of the dances I had seen before in my school \u00a0because we learned how to dance them, the others I had only seen on the TV. Well that was only my Friday night. I still had plenty of fun on Saturday. I took the bus to go to the mall with two of my friends. One of them said that I go too much to the mall, since I have gone there every weekend so far. But I can\u2019t help it, I was used to going to the mall at least once every weekend. That is one of the things we do for entertainment. I will probably go there next week too.<\/p>\n<p>I will also see you next week. Because that\u2019s all I have for today. See you\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! I hope you are doing well. Welcome to this week\u2019s post of Sigma Nu Zeta Omicron. There&#8217;s not so much different than usual that happened last week. Still, something very good happened during the weekend. I will get there in a moment. If you are one of those people that just likes to jump &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/2016\/10\/best-weekend-so-far\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Best weekend so far<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuslife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/enzo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}