{"id":2753,"date":"2011-12-15T17:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2011-12-15T17:00:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T05:00:24","slug":"student-perspective-antarctica-blogger-prepares-for-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/student-perspective-antarctica-blogger-prepares-for-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Perspective: Antarctica blogger prepares for departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Lisa Trapp, 2011 Antarctica student blogger, writes:<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>About me:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My name is Lisa Trapp. I am a 20-year-old pursuing a major in wildlife science with a double minor in biology and leadership at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vt.edu\/\">Virginia Tech<\/a>. I am a proud Hokie. I love travel and creating new memories that I can look back on for the rest of my life. I am the youngest of three with two older brothers and was raised a Coast Guard brat.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1780\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/trapp-family.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1780\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1780\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/trapp-family.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Trapp with her family at her father&#039;s retirement after 30 years of service<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This fall I\u2019ve been a student in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hokiesabroad.org\/\">Hokies Abroad<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auip.com\/hokies\/programs\/antarctica.php\">Antarctica<\/a> course, participating in online classes and completing course work prior to the field portion of the program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Beginning<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Keeping true to a stereotypical college student, its 3:30 in the morning and I am getting my last-minute packing done before heading to Richmond, Virginia in a few hours. My flight to Miami leaves this Thursday, December 15 and the group flight to Buenos Aires, Argentina will leave early on Friday morning, December 16.<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to believe the field portion of the Antarctica course has arrived this quickly. I feel like there is still so much to do in preparation for the trip, but I imagine that the feeling will remain until I am seated on the flight and heading out of the country. I have found myself looking at pictures of Antarctica and am very much unable to believe that I will be seeing all those beautiful sights firsthand. In exactly three days, I will quite literally be embarking on a trip that will, without a doubt, be one of the most amazing experiences of my lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Check back here in January for my posts about the program!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Trapp, 2011 Antarctica student blogger, writes: About me: My name is Lisa Trapp. I am a 20-year-old pursuing a major in wildlife science with a double minor in biology and leadership at Virginia Tech. I am a proud Hokie. I love travel and creating new memories that I can look back on for the rest of my life. I&#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":[35,21,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-student-blogs","category-antarctica","category-student-perspective"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753","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=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}