{"id":706,"date":"2019-09-29T19:19:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T19:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=706"},"modified":"2019-09-30T14:51:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T14:51:17","slug":"september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/2019\/09\/29\/september\/","title":{"rendered":"September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello from Germany!<\/p>\n<p>About six weeks ago I arrived here in Berlin for a semester of school at Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin. Up until now, I&#8217;ve been busying myself with my studies and with the occasional traveling. The acclimation to the time change was surprisingly easy and getting used to the culture has been going well too.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-708\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/files\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190821_174645520-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/files\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190821_174645520-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/files\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190821_174645520-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/files\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190821_174645520.jpg 493w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above image is of my host family&#8217;s home. They have been wonderful, not only providing for and taking care of me, but also helping me improve my German.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-709\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/files\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190929_154611158-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/files\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190929_154611158-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/files\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190929_154611158-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/files\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190929_154611158-705x529.jpg 705w, https:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/files\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190929_154611158-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/files\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190929_154611158.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tonight I had the opportunity through the FU-BEST program to attend the Berlin Philharmonic. (The concert hall is shown above.) It was a lovely experience, getting to listen to the final chorus from Carmina Burana among other pieces.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m signing off here for now, but I hope to post much more frequently.<br \/>\nPlease keep me in your prayers.<\/p>\n<p>God bless your day.<br \/>\nCaleb Raasch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello from Germany! About six weeks ago I arrived here in Berlin for a semester of school at Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin. Up until now, I&#8217;ve been busying myself with my studies and with the occasional traveling. The acclimation to the time change was surprisingly easy and getting used to the culture has been going well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Lhdr-bo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mlc-wels.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}