{"id":2767,"date":"2012-01-25T16:31:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T04:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2012-01-25T16:31:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T04:31:13","slug":"student-perspective-new-zealand-blogger-is-going-to-miss-country-more-than-i-couldve-ever-imagined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/student-perspective-new-zealand-blogger-is-going-to-miss-country-more-than-i-couldve-ever-imagined\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Perspective: New Zealand blogger is going to miss country \u2018more than I could\u2019ve ever imagined\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

On our second to last day in New Zealand we did the Dolphin Encounter. Now, I refuse to pick a favorite activity that we did because I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s impossible to do so.\u00a0 But the dolphin day is definitely one of the top activities that I loved doing.<\/p>\n

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Dusky dolphins at Kaikoura<\/p><\/div>\n

We weren’t just swimming with a number of twenty something, even fifty something dolphins, but literally hundreds and hundreds of completely wild dusky dolphins that hail to the Kaikoura Peninsula for the abundant food supply.<\/p>\n

We made five stops around the Peninsula and at each location, no matter where I looked, I was surrounded by an unimaginable amount of dolphins. And at one stop we even saw a seal swimming around!<\/p>\n

As I get ready to leave New Zealand, I can’t help regretting my decision to not do a whole semester abroad here.\u00a0Between the people and diverse geography, this country has so much to offer. I feel like I’ve barely touched the tip of the iceberg.\u00a0However, at the same time, going for three weeks to get a feeling for the place creates an even deeper, burning desire to come back for a much longer time.<\/p>\n

If you want to visit and learn about the main highlights of the South Island, then the New Zealand program<\/a> is the way to do it. I can’t even imagine trying to go from the southern tip to the northern tip of the South Island on my own. Now that I know what I love to see, my return trip will be more personalized to my interests.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, I’m going to miss New Zealand and the people I met here more than I could’ve ever imagined. The fact that you can hike a glacier then drive a few short hours to swim with dolphins still leaves me in awe.\u00a0This country is truly unlike any other, and for the sake of every traveler, I hope it stays that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adrienne Vita, the 2011 New Zealand Sustainability student blogger, writes: On our second to last day in New Zealand we did the Dolphin Encounter. Now, I refuse to pick a favorite activity that we did because I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s impossible to do so.\u00a0 But the dolphin day is definitely one of the top activities that I…<\/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":[35,7,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-student-blogs","category-new-zealand","category-student-perspective"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","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=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}