{"id":2760,"date":"2012-01-03T12:45:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T00:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2012-01-03T12:45:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T00:45:34","slug":"student-perspective-new-zealand-program-trumps-all-other-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/student-perspective-new-zealand-program-trumps-all-other-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Perspective: New Zealand program trumps all other adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adrienne Vita, the 2011 New Zealand Sustainability student blogger, writes:<\/em><\/p>\n

Just after four days at Lincoln University, I found myself ringing in the New Year with locals in Christchurch. It was an extremely different experience and a great way to talk to people about their daily lives in New Zealand.<\/p>\n

After chatting with a few people, the blunt question of \u201cWhat is the most unattractive quality in Americans?\u201d was asked.\u00a0I found that many people from all over the world hate how we always try to talk over each other.\u00a0It quickly occurred to me that they were all absolutely correct. It\u2019s a rather nasty habit that so many of us possess and it seems that no matter how hard we try, it will happen sooner rather than later.\u00a0It was really interesting getting their point of view of the American culture and in a social setting. But overall, the countdown to 2012 was the best New Year\u2019s I\u2019ve ever experienced so far.<\/p>\n

The next day we drove to the most beautiful lake, Lake Tekapo<\/a>.\u00a0The blue of the lake was only a color I\u2019d seen once in the sky of San Diego.\u00a0During our lunch stop there, many of us chose to swim in the clean lake rather than eat.\u00a0To us, it trumped any food a thousand to one.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We later arrived at our lodge to wake up the next day and hike the Hooker Valley of the highest peak in New Zealand, Mt. Cook<\/a>. The mountain, pictured left, was tipped with snow and accompanied by a ring of clouds around the top.\u00a0Hooker Lake, at the bottom of the glacier, was the perfect spot to eat lunch.\u00a0The glacial water was about 30 to 40 degrees cooler than that of Lake Tekapo, so just dipping my toes in was satisfactory.\u00a0The six to seven-mile hike in the Valley was by far the best walking excursion I\u2019ve ever been on.<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s safe to say that my New Zealand study abroad program has trumped all other adventures I\u2019ve done.\u00a0Considering it\u2019s only been five days-and there\u2019s so much yet to see and do-I can only expect remarkable things for the rest of the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adrienne Vita, the 2011 New Zealand Sustainability student blogger, writes: Just after four days at Lincoln University, I found myself ringing in the New Year with locals in Christchurch. It was an extremely different experience and a great way to talk to people about their daily lives in New Zealand. After chatting with a few people, the blunt question of…<\/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":[35,19,7,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-student-blogs","category-field-notes","category-new-zealand","category-student-perspective"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","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=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}