{"id":1868,"date":"2023-07-30T05:24:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T09:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2023-07-30T05:24:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T09:24:22","slug":"hta-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/summer-2023\/hta-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HTA Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Week 2: Okay. I have managed to cut down the \u529f\u8bfefrom 2hrs to 1hr and the \u9884\u4e60 from 3hrs to 2hrs, shaving 2hrs off of my total nightly workload! I\u2019m still only averaging 6hrs of sleep (or less) and the homework shave only works when I focus. Regardless, we\u2019re moving in the right direction. I think my Mandarin has certainly improved, but I still find myself getting frustrated not being able to fully flesh out my thoughts. I\u2019m also having trouble connecting new grammar to my thoughts by applying it in general conversation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In less boring news, I did get to meet and have dinner with my Taiwanese \u201chost\u201d family! I have a host brother who is 21 and a sister who is 25, so it\u2019s really nice to talk with locals my age! We ate at an Italian restaurant whose desserts did not compare to the \u82b1\u751f\u9905 I had a few days prior. Next week we\u2019re all going to hike a mountain (I forget which), which I\u2019m super excited about!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 2: Okay. I have managed to cut down the \u529f\u8bfefrom 2hrs to 1hr and the \u9884\u4e60 from 3hrs to 2hrs, shaving 2hrs off of my total nightly workload! I\u2019m still only averaging 6hrs of sleep (or less) and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/summer-2023\/hta-week-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-2023"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1870,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}