{"id":2693,"date":"2011-08-15T15:20:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T03:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2011-08-15T15:20:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T03:20:44","slug":"student-perspective-study-abroad-was-best-way-to-visit-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/student-perspective-study-abroad-was-best-way-to-visit-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Perspective: Study abroad was best way to visit Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Kasha Patel, <a href=\"http:\/\/studyabroad.wfu.edu\/\">Deacons Abroad<\/a> marketing intern, writes:<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1250\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/kasha-snorkeling-at-lady-elliot-island.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1250\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1250\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/kasha-snorkeling-at-lady-elliot-island.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kasha snorkeling at Lady Elliot Island on the Great Barrier Reef<\/p><\/div>\n<p>College checklist: get free stuff from activity fairs, visit every fraternity house, pull an all-nighter, and\u2026visit Australia? I never thought I would have the chance to visit Australia so early in my life, but now, after coming back from my month-long trip, I can\u2019t really imagine a better time or way to visit Down Under.<\/p>\n<p>All the icons of Australia \u2013 the kangaroos, Aussie accents, Great Barrier Reef, and beautiful beaches \u2013 are definitely better than advertised. I am no stranger to traveling abroad so I can genuinely tell you, without the shock of being out of the country for the first time, that Australia is everything you imagined and more\u2014 wombats and all.<\/p>\n<p>I spent one month in South Queensland this past summer taking a course titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/studyabroad.wfu.edu\/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&amp;Program_ID=1560&amp;Type=O&amp;sType=O\">Ecology and Resource Management of Southeast Australia<\/a>.\u201d This course was great because it took me to places I wanted to see in Australia. We analyzed the four main environments of Australia: the city, rainforest, Great Barrier Reef, and the Outback. The lectures and labs (which included snorkeling on the GBR!) usually answered questions we all had anyways.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1251\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/kasha-at-lone-pine-koala-sanctuary-in-brisbane.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1251\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1251\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/kasha-at-lone-pine-koala-sanctuary-in-brisbane.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kasha at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I am a rising senior at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfu.edu\/\">Wake Forest University<\/a> with a chemistry major and journalism and biology minors. I am very excited to be a marketing intern for AUIP\/Deacons Abroad, in hopes of sharing my great memories and making sure you get the opportunity to make your own memories, whether it is in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji or Antarctica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kasha Patel, Deacons Abroad marketing intern, writes: College checklist: get free stuff from activity fairs, visit every fraternity house, pull an all-nighter, and\u2026visit Australia? I never thought I would have the chance to visit Australia so early in my life, but now, after coming back from my month-long trip, I can\u2019t really imagine a better time or way to visit&#8230;<\/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":[36,22,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-12-interns","category-australia-south-queensland","category-student-perspective"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","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=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}