{"id":25,"date":"2014-08-20T19:18:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T00:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/meg\/?p=25"},"modified":"2014-08-20T19:18:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T00:18:53","slug":"its-not-culture-shock-its-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/meg\/2014\/08\/its-not-culture-shock-its-love\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not Culture Shock, it&#8217;s Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">I don\u2019t care that my body thinks that it is 4am. I don\u2019t care that I\u2019ve been awake and travelling for 23 hours. I don\u2019t care that I have lived through 8pm twice tonight. I don\u2019t care that for my tea I had a cereal bar and a bag of low fat pretzels. I don\u2019t even care that every single person I have spoken to has said, \u2018Why on earth are you going to Iowa?\u2019 I don\u2019t care because I am in Love. I love that the lady I sat next to on the plane and have only known 7 hours has invited me to her family\u2019s Christmas celebrations on the beach in Florida. I love that when I walked into the Eastern Iowa Airport\u2019s baggage claim and arrivals lounge I automatically knew that every person in the room was an Iowan. I love that the shuttle bus I was picked up in to take me from the airport to the hotel was a white, miniature version of a the stereotypical, yellow American School Bus \u2013 complete with \u2018awesome\u2019 lever that the driver uses to open the door without leaving his seat. I also love that my shuttle bus appears to be free. I love that the petrol stations have retro gas pumps. I love that everywhere I look I spot a brand or a structure or a sign that I have seen on TV or in movies. It\u2019s like being on a ginormous film set. I love that when I enquired at my hotel about where to go for breakfast I was directed to the International House of Pancakes. I love that there are tall thin chimneys dotted around with red lights running up them that makes me feel as though I have found a little bit of Eggborough Power Station, the symbol of home, in Coralville, Iowa. I love that tomorrow I get to start my new life in the Hawkeye State. Some might call this culture shock, but I prefer, putting it simply, to call it Love. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t care that my body thinks that it is 4am. I don\u2019t care that I\u2019ve been awake and travelling for 23 hours. I don\u2019t care that I have lived through 8pm twice tonight. I don\u2019t care that for my tea I had a cereal bar and a bag of low fat pretzels. I don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/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-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/meg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","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=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/meg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/meg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/meg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/meg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/meg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}