{"id":2599,"date":"2025-08-16T13:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/?p=2599"},"modified":"2025-08-16T13:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:09:13","slug":"week-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/summer-2025\/week-8\/","title":{"rendered":"week 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my final post here! we have ended Middlebury Chinese school, time really flew by. I am sad but also very excited to go back home. it was so strange to use english again. actually on thursday during dinner, i couldn&#8217;t really speak english. My brain was stuck between Chinese and Spanish LOL. I don&#8217;t know if my chinese improved but I definitely feel a lot more confident when using the language. Coming to Middlebury not only improved my language skill but I discovered so much about china and developed new ways of viewing china and the world. It was an education beyond the language and I will never forget this experience and the friendships i gained throughout it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my final post here! we have ended Middlebury Chinese school, time really flew by. I am sad but also very excited to go back home. it was so strange to use english again. actually on thursday during dinner, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/summer-2025\/week-8\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3233,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599","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\/3233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2600,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions\/2600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}