{"id":473,"date":"2016-07-26T16:02:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T16:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/?p=473"},"modified":"2016-07-26T16:02:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T16:02:01","slug":"my-farewell-to-kosovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/2016\/07\/26\/my-farewell-to-kosovo\/","title":{"rendered":"My Farewell to Kosovo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I left for Kosovo on June 16<sup>th<\/sup> with the assumption that I would stay to myself, and only really converse with the three people I previously knew from back home. That was quite the opposite of what happened and that\u2019s what made it so incredibly hard to leave Saturday morning. I never pictured myself becoming such good friends with a bunch of complete strangers during the past five weeks but I\u2019m so grateful that I did because they are what made this entire trip such a great experience. Though many of them actually go to my school back home, it will still be very strange not seeing them everyday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-474\" src=\"http:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/squad5-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/squad5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/squad5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/squad5.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-475\" src=\"http:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/squad-4-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/squad-4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/squad-4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/squad-4.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The past five weeks were filled with great adventures and experiences whether it was cliff jumping in Albania, attempting to learn Albanian pick up lines, or simply staying up as a group until 3am goofing around and trying to finish homework that\u2019s due the following day. Though there were some moments where stress got to me, I am forever thankful for being a part of this program and wouldn\u2019t trade it for anything in the world. I will for sure miss Kosovo and all the people I met there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-476\" src=\"http:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/squad-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/squad-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/squad-3.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-478\" src=\"http:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/squad-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/squad-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/squad.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I left for Kosovo on June 16th with the assumption that I would stay to myself, and only really converse with the three people I previously knew from back home. That was quite the opposite of what happened and that\u2019s what made it so incredibly hard to leave Saturday morning. I never pictured myself becoming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/2016\/07\/26\/my-farewell-to-kosovo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Farewell to Kosovo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}