{"id":1297,"date":"2012-01-19T12:28:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T16:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crosscultural\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2012-01-23T14:41:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T18:41:15","slug":"new-in-guatemala-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/2012\/01\/19\/new-in-guatemala-city\/","title":{"rendered":"New in Guatemala City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7027\/6725647449_e0e151f287.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7027\/6725647449_e0e151f287_m.jpg\" alt=\"Group photo at the FEGUA Museum\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> January 16, 2012<br \/>\nWhat a crazy week! It&#8217;s Monday, and I&#8217;m in Guatemala, which is still kind of surreal. Some things are different; others are not. The weather is amazing! It is a warm, spring day. <em>Every<\/em> day. I survived my first flight, which was good. It was incredible looking out the window and seeing the clouds create a seascape, and seeing Cuba!<\/p>\n<p>Once in Guatemala City, a bus from CASAS (Central America Study and Service) came to pick us up. Our group will have language classes there for the next 8 weeks. Some new sights along the way: police with rifles, barbed wire on top of every fence, plants and flowers growing on the barbed wire, and crazy driving where no one wears seat belts.<\/p>\n<p>The people are very welcoming. My host dad played music in English in the car for me and my host mom, brother and I watched The Hangover Part 2 with Spanish subtitles.\u00a0 Oh, yes. It feels like spring!<\/p>\n<p>-Mary Sodano<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 16, 2012 What a crazy week! It&#8217;s Monday, and I&#8217;m in Guatemala, which is still kind of surreal. Some things are different; others are not. The weather is amazing! It is a warm, spring day. Every day. I survived my first flight, which was good. It was incredible looking out the window and seeing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/2012\/01\/19\/new-in-guatemala-city\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New in Guatemala City<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4009],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guatemalamexico-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}