{"id":425,"date":"2017-03-19T21:56:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T21:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=425"},"modified":"2017-08-10T23:58:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T23:58:06","slug":"a-day-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/2017\/03\/19\/a-day-to-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day to Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-434 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/03\/20170319_225230.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dear Reader,<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-436 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/03\/20170319_225303.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So this past week was the best weekend that I have had during my entire stay in Austria so far: I went to go\u00a0get my student Visa. \u00a0To get it, we had to go to Ljubljana, to the closest Austrian Embassy. \u00a0However, the process takes a whole day to complete, so to wait out the process we traveled to Trieste, Italy! \u00a0The city of Trieste is right on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, and our hostel was right by the castle and right on the coast. \u00a0I had a beautiful view of the water, and I co<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-435 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/03\/20170319_225247.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"189\" \/>uld have stared at it all day. \u00a0Smelling the water, witnessing how cle<br \/>\nar it was, and how sunny the day was, was absolutely an amazing sensation. \u00a0If anyone ever gets the chance to go to see the sea, anywhere in Europe<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-433 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/03\/20170319_225208.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"186\" \/>, I highly highly recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>However, as great as Italy was, I need to talk about my experiences in Graz. \u00a0School has started, and the signs of Spring have started to blossom. \u00a0Flowers are blooming, restaurants are setting up their tables outside, and the sunsets over the Clock Tower are truly the greatest. \u00a0The people are some of the nicest I&#8217;ve ever met, and now I&#8217;ve reached the point where people will naturally begin talking with me in German, which is a huge ego booster. \u00a0I have also discovered the wonderful delight of a krapfen. \u00a0They are special pastries with warm marmalade (Peach or Apricot) in the center.<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;ve said it in my past blogs, and I&#8217;ll probably say it in all my future blogs, but Graz is a<br \/>\nbeautiful city. \u00a0I see new sights, smell new smells, and meet new people every day. \u00a0I am so thankful for this opportunity, and so thankful towards my German teacher, Frau Haulmark, back home for giving me the courage to do this.<\/p>\n<p>Well, until next time!<\/p>\n<p>Caleb Mott\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-437 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/files\/2017\/03\/20170319_225325.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Reader, So this past week was the best weekend that I have had during my entire stay in Austria so far: I went to go\u00a0get my student Visa. \u00a0To get it, we had to go to Ljubljana, to the closest Austrian Embassy. \u00a0However, the process takes a whole day to complete, so to wait [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[24,38,26,33,37,36,35,32,34],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-atuglobal","category-graz-austria","tag-austria","tag-clock-tower","tag-graz","tag-italy","tag-krapfen","tag-ljubljana","tag-slovenia","tag-spring","tag-trieste","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}