{"id":1258,"date":"2020-11-30T13:53:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T13:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2025-06-10T19:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T19:37:30","slug":"madeline-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=1258","title":{"rendered":"Madeline Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Costa Rica 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Studying abroad in Costa Rica spring of 2020, nothing would&#8217;ve prepared me for what I learned and experienced. Cultural differences taught me more about the world, myself, and my faith. My Spanish speaking abilities greatly improved as well. Living with a host family, I learned a lot about how family should be honored and put first. Volunteering teaching English in a nearby town, I was challenged. Making the decision to leave early from the program, I learned so much about putting my own mental health first. Overall, if I had the chance to do it all over again, I 100% would.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GLST 295, Study Abroad<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lauren Riley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bucher Room<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 &#8211; 2:30 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ckWPt8kX7tI\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ckWPt8kX7tI\">View stream here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1uNi9gxGaMOB1ZofeCxzHm8GwFFjJJDZOJHx_s59oo4Y\/edit?usp=sharing\">Return to schedule<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Costa Rica 2020 Studying abroad in Costa Rica spring of 2020, nothing would&#8217;ve prepared me for what I learned and experienced. Cultural differences taught me more about the world, myself, and my faith. My Spanish speaking abilities greatly improved as well. Living with a host family, I learned a lot about how family should be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=1258\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Madeline Thompson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[1058,17,655,172,1010],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2020","tag-glst","tag-glst-295","tag-riley-l","tag-study-abroad","tag-thompson-ma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}