{"id":488,"date":"2011-08-04T08:07:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T13:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/?p=488"},"modified":"2011-08-04T08:07:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T13:07:33","slug":"california-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/2011\/08\/california-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"California Bound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cedar Rapids, Iowa<\/p>\n<p>Finding a ride to Cedar Rapids was a lot of hard work! Luckily, my sister Kyeisha, came through, and at 1:00 am I arrived in Cedar Rapids at my aunt Dena\u2019s house. After 3 hours of sleep I was awake again getting ready to head to the airport.\u00a0 The C.R. airport was so quiet, but it wasn\u2019t long before my air-rage began. Haha, I had to pay 25$ to check in my bag\u2014grrr the first one should be free if you ask me! But of course no one did-hmph!<\/p>\n<p>Once on my Continental Airline plane\u2026 I fell asleep at no surprise to me. Take off was annoying like usual; my ears were popping like popcorn. Iowa is sooo green Texas is brown.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-488 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/2011\/08\/california-bound\/img_8274\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2011\/08\/IMG_8274-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/2011\/08\/california-bound\/img_8279\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2011\/08\/IMG_8279-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/2011\/08\/california-bound\/img_8280\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2011\/08\/IMG_8280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/2011\/08\/california-bound\/img_8281\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2011\/08\/IMG_8281-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/2011\/08\/california-bound\/img_8282\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2011\/08\/IMG_8282-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/2011\/08\/california-bound\/img_8286\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2011\/08\/IMG_8286-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/2011\/08\/california-bound\/img_8287\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2011\/08\/IMG_8287-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/2011\/08\/california-bound\/img_8292\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2011\/08\/IMG_8292-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>TEXAS!<\/p>\n<p>So I should probably buy something here as a souvenir!<\/p>\n<p>I have never seen so many hot people in one place. This Houston airport is just filled with beautiful people!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2011\/08\/IMG_8292.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-497\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2011\/08\/IMG_8292-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2011\/08\/IMG_8292-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2011\/08\/IMG_8292-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I was sitting down drinking a McCafe cappuccino drowned in sugar &amp; a strawberry banana smoothie, a young girl with a southern accent smiled at me. After I returned the smile, she asked if she could eat breakfast with me because she didn\u2019t want to sit alone. I told her OF COURSE! Her name was Aubrey and she was 13 traveling from visiting her mom back home to Oklahoma all by herself. She told me that I look close to her age\u2026LOL that\u2019s a lot older than what age people usually assume that I am. PROGRESS!<\/p>\n<p>For all you who don\u2019t know&#8212; I am heading to California. SANFRANCISCO to participate in Google\u2019s freshman program called BOLD Immersion. When I land my friend Danielle is going to meet me at my hotel, Hotel Valencia and we are going to head to the beach! LEGGO!<\/p>\n<p>Well I gotta go head to my gate! San Francisco is calling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cedar Rapids, Iowa Finding a ride to Cedar Rapids was a lot of hard work! Luckily, my sister Kyeisha, came through, and at 1:00 am I arrived in Cedar Rapids at my aunt Dena\u2019s house. After 3 hours of sleep I was awake again getting ready to head to the airport.\u00a0 The C.R. airport was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/2011\/08\/california-bound\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">California Bound<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}