{"id":17,"date":"2014-08-20T18:03:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T23:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/meg\/?p=17"},"modified":"2014-08-20T18:04:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T23:04:29","slug":"thoughts-from-the-wrong-side-of-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/meg\/2014\/08\/thoughts-from-the-wrong-side-of-the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts from the Wrong Side of the Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Until today, all my observations have been recorded in one of two forms. Firstly, as amusing, anecdotal Facebook statuses, or secondly, hand written inside my holiday diaries. I should point out that the reason for this blog is because I am leaving my cosy, familiar Yorkshire village, with my reliable and trustworthy pensioner neighbours, and I am getting on a plane, alone, to America. I\u2019m swapping village life, where we don\u2019t have access to fibre optics yet and our amenities total one pub, a post office and an Italian restaurant (for some unknown reason), for the biggest superpower on Earth. The photo below is the main street in my village. As you can see, it’s not exactly bustling with people.<\/span><\/p>\n

As such, I\"home\"<\/a> thought it was about time my inner most thoughts jumped on the bandwagon and became available for public consumption. I\u2019m rejecting my pen for the keyboard and chronicling my time abroad online, partly so I have a record of everything that is going to happen this next year, partly so that prospective and current students (like yourself) can see University life through my eyes, but I\u2019m mostly doing it so that my Mum knows what I\u2019m up to, (Hi Mum! x) My specific destination is the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, which is where I will be spending my third year of University before I return to the University of Hull for a final year before collecting my degree in American Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n

I suppose I am anxious, but I am also excited and thoroughly ready for my American Dream to begin. However, before I begin pouring all my thoughts on Football, sidewalks, the correct pronunciation of aluminium and the novelty of two pronged plugs into the abyss that is the internet, I need to get on a plane first. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Until today, all my observations have been recorded in one of two forms. Firstly, as amusing, anecdotal Facebook statuses, or secondly, hand written inside my holiday diaries. I should point out that the reason for this blog is because I am leaving my cosy, familiar Yorkshire village, with my reliable and trustworthy pensioner neighbours, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/meg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/meg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/meg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/meg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/meg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/meg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/meg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/meg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/meg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/meg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}