{"id":2691,"date":"2011-08-11T11:35:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T23:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2011-08-11T11:35:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T23:35:01","slug":"student-perspective-avid-outdoorsman-speaks-about-new-zealand-to-any-willing-listener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/student-perspective-avid-outdoorsman-speaks-about-new-zealand-to-any-willing-listener\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Perspective: Avid outdoorsman speaks about New Zealand to any willing listener"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bowen Humphreys, Grizzlies Abroad<\/a> marketing intern, writes:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bowen standing in front of Bowen Falls in Milford Sound<\/p><\/div>\n

While it may sound clich\u00e9, my study abroad experience on the southern island of New Zealand<\/a> really was a \u201clife-changing\u201d experience. Though I had been out of the country before (some may say Canada doesn\u2019t really count), it was my first true overseas trip to a noticeably different country. For months afterward, I\u2019d tell anyone who would listen about New Zealand and the stories I had gathered there; I just couldn\u2019t keep quiet about it.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I\u2019m so excited to join the AUIP\/Grizzlies Abroad<\/a> team as a marketing intern at the University of Montana<\/a>. I will not only be spreading the word about the sustainable business class in New Zealand I took (a joy in itself), but also about other intriguing and tempting programs in the area, like Australia<\/a> and Fiji<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Bowen standing on the St. Arnaud Ridge<\/p><\/div>\n

A little background on me: I\u2019m a returning junior at the University of Montana, studying sustainable business, majoring in environmental studies, and minoring in both philosophy and climate change studies. I was born and grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, and am an avid cyclist (both on and off road), outdoorsman, runner, and a self-professed nerd. I\u2019m extremely interested in sustainable business, solving how businesses can operate without cheap energy, and the greening of the automotive industry.<\/p>\n

While my trip to New Zealand was amazing and life changing, I feel that it would be useless without telling people about it and giving them the opportunity to have a life-changing experience for themselves. I\u2019m eager to get started and spread the word about Grizzlies Abroad!<\/p>\n

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Bowen Humphreys, Grizzlies Abroad marketing intern, writes: While it may sound clich\u00e9, my study abroad experience on the southern island of New Zealand really was a \u201clife-changing\u201d experience. Though I had been out of the country before (some may say Canada doesn\u2019t really count), it was my first true overseas trip to a noticeably different country. For months afterward, I\u2019d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,23,6,7,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-12-interns","category-australia-north-queensland","category-fiji","category-new-zealand","category-student-perspective"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}