{"id":3254,"date":"2018-05-28T21:26:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T21:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2018-05-28T21:26:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T21:26:47","slug":"piece-of-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/piece-of-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Piece of Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another worldwind of months has pasted by. Spring is almost over and summer is upon us. But this spring is one for the books because I got to travel with my best friend from home, Laura.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3258\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3258\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3258 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2018\/05\/san-gimignano-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3258\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dinner in San Gimignano, Italy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I met Laura by sophomore year of undergrad but we didn&#8217;t become friends until my junior year. She is one of those people you either love or hate and since we are going on our 7th year of friendship, I would say I love her. She has helped me become more spontaneous and daring in life. If is wasn&#8217;t for her, I don&#8217;t think I would have had the guts to move to London. I want to thank her for that.<\/p>\n<p>Laura made the long trip here to London in April and we got to travel together. We went to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sLMxO5xDJ2o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Calabria<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c1zMcn7VjrA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Gimignano<\/a> in Italy and to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LGMovj-FwcQ&amp;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barcelona, Spain<\/a>. (Click on each to see the video). All unique and beautiful in their own way. But, honestly, the best part was having a piece of home with me. It was much needed and much appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Next stop Greece! Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCjUR5QMMSFzjziI4HPOYJvQ?view_as=subscriber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my YouTube channel<\/a> for more videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another worldwind of months has pasted by. Spring is almost over and summer is upon us. But this spring is one for the books because I got to travel with my best friend from home, Laura. I met Laura by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":3267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18,19],"tags":[721],"class_list":["post-3254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-friends","category-student-experience","category-travel","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}