{"id":433,"date":"2017-02-22T13:20:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T13:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-abroad\/?p=433"},"modified":"2017-02-22T13:20:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T13:20:24","slug":"student-blog-niamh-christmas-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-study-abroad-blog\/2017\/02\/22\/student-blog-niamh-christmas-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Student blog: Niamh – “Christmas Holidays”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something very different about studying in Australia is the fact that we have a 3 month holiday over the Christmas period. This is the summer holiday like we have from July-September in England – but from November-February. It’s a bit of an odd feeling, but it’s a perfect time to go travelling, especially seeing as everyone back in England is\u00a0busy with university.<\/p>\n

During November,\u00a0I spent some time with friends in Australia, before heading back to England for Christmas. It was lovely to be back at home, but as soon as all my family\/friends had gone back to work\/university, I didn’t have much to do. At the very start of January, however, I ventured back over to the Southern Hemisphere to join a 3 week tour of New Zealand with GAdventures’ ‘Best of New Zealand’ tour.<\/p>\n

My time in New Zealand went by faster than I could ever have imagined. Visiting both the north island and the south island, our 21 days were packed to the brim with activities. From\u00a0completing\u00a0many<\/span> 5:30am hikes, experiencing\u00a0Maori\u00a0culture, and visiting Waitomo Glow Worm caves, the north island was an amazing 7 day experience. I could definitely have spent double the time there if I had the opportunity.<\/p>\n

With 14 days on the south island, I decided to be a bit more adventurous with the activities I chose to do. So…in Queenstown, I completed my first 15,000ft tandem skydive! It was the most amazing experience and I would highly recommend it to anyone!\u00a0Other than skydiving, I was able to go dolphin watching, visit a seal colony, and go zip-lining on the world’s steepest zip-line.<\/p>\n

The whole journey was a whirlwind, but I would do the whole trip again in a heartbeat!<\/p>\n

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Something very different about studying in Australia is the fact that we have a 3 month holiday over the Christmas period. This is the summer holiday like we have from July-September in England – but from November-February. It’s a bit of an odd feeling, but it’s a perfect time to go travelling, especially seeing as… Continue Reading Student blog: Niamh – “Christmas Holidays”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\nRead More Student blog: Niamh – “Christmas Holidays”<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9,10,17],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","tag-anu","tag-australia","tag-new-zealand","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-study-abroad-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-study-abroad-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-study-abroad-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-study-abroad-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-study-abroad-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-study-abroad-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-study-abroad-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-study-abroad-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-study-abroad-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}