{"id":710,"date":"2012-07-18T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=710"},"modified":"2012-07-16T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T14:19:14","slug":"steph-from-the-humidity-to-the-beach-to-the-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2012\/07\/18\/steph-from-the-humidity-to-the-beach-to-the-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Steph: From the Humidity, to the Beach, to the Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Hey there Class of 2016! I hope all of you have been relaxing and getting excited for the fall during these summer months! I\u2019m sure some of you are feeling some anxiety, nerves, and maybe even dread at the prospect of leaving for college in a couple of months\u2026I know I was just a year ago. But don\u2019t worry, this summer, all I can think about is how awesome my freshman year was, and how excited I am to get back to Boston!<\/p>\n

This summer I\u2019ve been experiencing some change in the scenery. For one thing, coming home to Miami after spending the Spring semester in Boston was quite a change. Those who have never experienced summer in Miami might believe it\u2019s the perfect summer destination, with the sunshine, the beaches, and the tropical landscape. At those people, I laugh. Most of the time during the summer, temperatures reach close to 90 degrees, with 90-100% humidity, overcast skies, and scattered thunderstorms. Almost every day my friends and I wanted to work on our tans on South Beach, go for a bike ride in the Everglades, or have a nice day at the pool. The on-and-off rainstorms kinda put a damper on those plans. So, to be totally honest with you guys, I spent most of my time in Miami watching a lot of movies with my friends. Which, of course, I did not mind one bit.<\/p>\n

My summer has also taken me to Panama to visit my mom\u2019s side of the family. Being half Panamanian, I absolutely LOVE going to the place where my mom grew up, spending time with my aunts, uncles, and cousins, and going to our family\u2019s weekend home in the beach community of Coronado. To me, our house in Coronado is paradise. My grandparents built our small house right on a cliff that slopes down to the beach, complete with a pool, a hut overlooking the ocean, and lots of room outside for the kids to run around. While in Coronado, I get to spend quality time with my family as we take walks on the beach, visit our horses and other animals on our farm, and tell hilarious family stories in hammocks under the stars. Doesn\u2019t that sound perfect?! Spoiler alert: it is.<\/p>\n

Finally, my last change of scenery for the summer before heading back to Miami is my current location: Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blowing Rock is a quaint mountain town where my parents and I have been vacationing almost every summer since I was two. While I\u2019m here, I transform into the definition of outdoorsy. If you know me well, that last sentence would make you laugh out loud. But hey, something about the mountain air just brings out the hiker, biker, and kayaker in me! My favorite outdoor activity that we do every year is the 17-mile bike ride down the Virginia Creeper Trail. The trail used to be home to an old railroad track, and travels through the woods near Damascus, Virginia. It\u2019s absolutely gorgeous, flying by on your bike past creeks and woodland creatures and crossing over beautiful bridges. When I\u2019m not outside, becoming at one with nature, I\u2019ve been eating absurd amounts of Kilwins ice cream, reading Game of Thrones, watching House Hunters International marathons, and anxiously awaiting my flight back to Boston in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey there Class of 2016! I hope all of you have been relaxing and getting excited for the fall during these summer months! I\u2019m sure some of you are feeling some anxiety, nerves, and maybe even dread at the prospect of leaving for college in a couple of months\u2026I know I was just a year … Continue reading Steph: From the Humidity, to the Beach, to the Mountains<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7282],"tags":[65,11774,638],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}