{"id":678,"date":"2018-12-03T01:12:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T01:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=678"},"modified":"2025-06-10T19:38:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T19:38:43","slug":"robbie-mcgowen-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Robbie McGowen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twice in a Lifetime<\/p>\n<p>Studying abroad is generally something students do once in a lifetime, but in this case it was twice in a lifetime. After having already been to the host country and city before I did not think there were going to be that many challenges because of familiarity; however, I could not have been more wrong. Over the course of this presentation, I will discuss those challenges, my time at the American University of Rome (i.e., the students and environment), a sample of basic Italian, the benefits of blending into your host culture, being abroad alone vs. a faculty led trip, and some random fun adventures and stories. Lastly, I will share about places I visited after Rome and life lessons I learned during the trip as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>GLST 295, Study Abroad<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Riley<\/p>\n<p>P114<\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211; 2:30 PM<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1wS3qPVd-hBUtbY8BFrNJqv1Erz3XN28JNa6f8UPxXt8\/edit#gid=0\">Return to schedule<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twice in a Lifetime Studying abroad is generally something students do once in a lifetime, but in this case it was twice in a lifetime. After having already been to the host country and city before I did not think there were going to be that many challenges because of familiarity; however, I could not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=678\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robbie McGowen&#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":[137],"tags":[1058,17,655,791,172],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2018","tag-glst","tag-glst-295","tag-riley-l","tag-mcgowen-r","tag-study-abroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","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=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}