{"id":2358,"date":"2013-02-11T18:12:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T16:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/?p=2358"},"modified":"2013-02-11T18:12:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T16:12:11","slug":"travel-journal-reflections-by-monica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/2013\/02\/11\/travel-journal-reflections-by-monica\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Journal: Reflections by Monica"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2320\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2320\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2320 \" alt=\"P1010444\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/files\/2013\/01\/P1010444-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monica in Conques<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During her first semester, Monica took advantage of her time in France to \u2013 of course \u2013discover France! Nizas, Conques, Carcassonne, Paris, Strasburg, Albi, Cannes, Nice\u2026not bad for a first taste of the country. A few reflections on her travels? She \u00ab\u00a0loved C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur\u00a0\u00bb, where she visited a friend from high school, but she couldn\u2019t help but make a comparison. Her friend\u2019s study abroad program is \u201cmuch more protected: she reads books in English for her classes, she lives in a dorm with other Americans, she doesn\u2019t have to leave the building to go to class.\u201d Another girl on the program talked to her about a weekend during which she only spoke French, an endeavour which she found difficult for such a long period of time. Monica thought \u201cah, that\u2019s my everyday life!\u201d, but she also said : \u201cI would feel frustrated&#8230;I\u2019m happy to live with a French family and to study in a Toulouse university.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also in Nice, Monica realized how drastic regional differences are in France. The \u201cni\u00e7ois\u201d accent and \u201cproven\u00e7al\u201d language seemed much more \u201citalian\u201d than the Toulouse accent and occitan, which themselves are more \u201cSpanish-sounding,\u201d and the Strasburg accent was definitely more \u201cGerman.\u201d She reflected: \u201cI imagine that Brittany is also more celtic.\u201d Such diversity within one single country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During her first semester, Monica took advantage of her time in France to \u2013 of course \u2013discover France! Nizas, Conques, Carcassonne, Paris, Strasburg, Albi, Cannes, Nice\u2026not bad for a first taste of the country. A few reflections on her travels? She \u00ab\u00a0loved C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur\u00a0\u00bb, where she visited a friend from high school, but she couldn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4846,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-la-une-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4846"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}