{"id":4415,"date":"2016-03-11T14:29:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T14:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.com\/?p=4415"},"modified":"2016-03-11T14:30:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T14:30:20","slug":"taleoftwocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/taleoftwocities\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Perspective: A Tale of Two Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katerina Alemis, the <\/em>Illinois Abroad<\/em> marketing intern, writes: <\/em><\/p>\n

\"Aboriginal<\/a>On this day exactly two months ago I embarked on a trip to Australia<\/a>. I did not know what this trip would bring me, but I was excited for everything about this experience. After finally arriving after what felt like forever<\/a>, I could not wait to explore and learn all there is to know about Australia. Our trip consisted of a two-week long stay split between Adelaide<\/a> and Sydney<\/a>. I did not know much about Australia except for what I saw in Disney\u2019s beloved Finding Nemo<\/a><\/em> and my favorite childhood Mary-Kate and Ashley movie.<\/a> \u00a0Our trip therefore provided us with a twofold perspective. A rural one in Adelaide and an urban one in Sydney.<\/p>\n

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\"Aboriginal<\/a>The two cities differ both geographically and culturally. The city of Adelaide is in South Australia. Here, we visited Aboriginal sites and got first-hand accounts of not only Aboriginal history but the struggles that continue to exist for indigenous Australians. On our free day, a group of us visited The Art Gallery of South Australia<\/a>. The detailed Aboriginal art in the museum was like nothing I had ever seen before.<\/p>\n

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\"Sydney<\/a>In Sydney, we were welcomed to the city with the breathtaking view of Sydney Harbour Bridge coupled with the iconic Sydney Opera House. The city reminded me a lot of New York: lively, bustling, and modern. There are a lot of young people and there is a lot to do from museums to farmer\u2019s markets and pastry shops. Sydney quickly became my favorite city I have ever visited, and I definitely plan to return.
\nAustralia was an amazing experience and I am excited to share more memories of my program in my new role as the new student marketing intern for the University of Illinois!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Katerina Alemis, the Illinois Abroad marketing intern, writes: On this day exactly two months ago I embarked on a trip to Australia. I did not know what this trip would bring me, but I was excited for everything about this experience. After finally arriving after what felt like forever, I could not wait to explore and learn all there is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,5,149,17,25,34],"tags":[150,98,121,120,48,61,131],"class_list":["post-4415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-interns","category-australia","category-australia-south-australia","category-australia-sydney","category-snapshot","category-student-perspective","tag-adelaide","tag-australia","tag-diversity","tag-health","tag-study-abroad","tag-sydney","tag-university-of-illinois"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4415"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4429,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions\/4429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}