{"id":1734,"date":"2017-12-13T13:46:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T18:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2018-03-23T09:57:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T13:57:23","slug":"dickinson-goes-to-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/2017\/12\/13\/dickinson-goes-to-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Dickinson Goes to Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">As part of their \u201cRussia Today\u201d course, in fall 2017 Dickinson-in-Moscow students participated in a module with Russian students called \u201cThe History of the Commonwealth Independent States.\u201d Dickinson students got to take a trip to one of these post-Soviet states &#8212; Georgia &#8212; in early December 2017 to experience the culture, history, and language firsthand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Russian and Economics major Julia Isacson &#8217;19 said: We received such wonderful hospitality and generosity from the native Georgian people and we spoke only Russian, although it was great to get to know some Georgian words and phrases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Dana Damenova &#8217;19 added: We were taught how to make Georgian bread in a real stone oven and skewer meat\u00a0on a metal stick and cook delicious shish kebab.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Earth Sciences major William Irving &#8217;19 shared: It was such an interesting experience to encounter a new culture and compare the similarities and differences between Russian, Georgia, and the US.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2017\/12\/image001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2017\/12\/image001-300x225.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2017\/12\/image002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2017\/12\/image002-225x300.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2017\/12\/image003.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2017\/12\/image003-225x300.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2017\/12\/main-image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2017\/12\/main-image-300x225.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of their \u201cRussia Today\u201d course, in fall 2017 Dickinson-in-Moscow students participated in a module with Russian students called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3148,"featured_media":1735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85041],"tags":[7044,22761,22768,115627],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abroad-experiences","tag-abroad","tag-moscow","tag-russia","tag-today","first-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}