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I do hope you enjoyed reading the blogs on some fo the different countries of this world.\u00a0I hope these blogs have inspired you to get out there and discover the world. There is so much history for you to explore, culture for you to acknowledge, food for you to try, people for you to meet, and places for you to see. The world is\u00a0big\u00a0and sometimes scary, but if you never get out there, you will never know what opportunities you missed out on.<\/p>\n
For me, studying abroad truly opened not only my eyes but also my heart. I have also been one who loves to travel but only stayed for a week or less. With studying abroad, I was able to live in a country other than my own for four months and within those four months, I got to explore other countries. I learned so much about the culture of Italy and its people. Most importantly I learned the value of friendship and what it means to cherish one another. I also learned that it is important to share your experiences because you may, in fact, inspire others to do what you have done. You can be a role model.<\/p>\n
I know you may push traveling to the side and say you might travel one day, but that one day should be now. You should want to travel as much as you can now. It will help you with your future and help you shape the future you. Traveling is good for the soul. I do hope one day soon you will book a trip and perhaps even backpack your way around whatever country you want. The world is this big oyster and it can be yours only if you take the opportunity.<\/p>\n
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you — it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you… Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Get out there and discover the world,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n -H<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello there, I do hope you enjoyed reading the blogs on some fo the different countries of this world.\u00a0I hope these blogs have inspired you to get out there and discover the world. There is so much history for you to explore, culture for you to acknowledge, food for you to try, people for you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}