{"id":3099,"date":"2013-09-11T11:57:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T23:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2013-09-11T11:57:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T23:57:35","slug":"student-perspective-study-abroad-instills-independence-in-participant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/student-perspective-study-abroad-instills-independence-in-participant\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Perspective: Study abroad instills independence in participant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jillian Pellicano, the <\/i>Lions Abroad<\/a><\/i> marketing intern, writes: <\/i><\/p>\n

Bula! My name is Jillian Pellicano, and I am eager to represent Penn State<\/a> as the Lions Abroad<\/a> Marketing Intern. I am a junior marketing student with a passion for exploration and the outdoors.<\/p>\n

For as long as I can remember, Fiji and Australia have been the two places in the world that I have always dreamt of visiting. This past summer, I was fortunate enough to spend five weeks with some unforgettable people through the AUIP<\/a> North Queensland<\/a> and Fiji<\/a> programs. Both destinations fully lived up to all my excitement to explore these two amazing locations.<\/p>\n

\"Jillian<\/a>

Jillian showing Fijian kids how to operate her camera<\/p><\/div>\n

This program meant more to me than I originally anticipated. As expected, some of my favorite highlights include snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef<\/a>, learning how to surf in Fiji, bungee jumping in Australia on a free day and touring the Sydney Opera House<\/a>. However, the real highlight of my study abroad was meeting some of the greatest people and learning some things about myself that would have been hard to notice without this experience.<\/p>\n

\"Exploring<\/a>

Exploring Sydney, Australia<\/p><\/div>\n

My entire life, up until this program, I have been an extremely home-oriented person. I am very close with my family so, needless to say, the prospect of spending over a month halfway around the world with a bunch of people I barely knew terrified me.<\/p>\n

Luckily, this program was able to extract from me a newfound independence, which I have taken with me ever since. I am a more self-sufficient, daring and go-getting person after this experience. Eager to try new things, I no longer fear the difficult or foreign opportunities in my future, but rather I look to them with excitement and ambition. All of these reasons lend to my excitement for sharing my story with prospective students as the Lions Abroad Marketing Intern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jillian Pellicano, the Lions Abroad marketing intern, writes: Bula! My name is Jillian Pellicano, and I am eager to represent Penn State as the Lions Abroad Marketing Intern. I am a junior marketing student with a passion for exploration and the outdoors. For as long as I can remember, Fiji and Australia have been the two places in the world…<\/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":[40,23,17,6,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-14-interns","category-australia-north-queensland","category-australia-sydney","category-fiji","category-student-perspective"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","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=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}