{"id":1311,"date":"2016-10-20T00:59:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T00:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:42:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T15:42:52","slug":"im-half-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/im-half-way\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m half way!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s week 7 here out of a 12-week term, it\u2019s scary how fast time here is flying by and I\u2019m beginning to panic that I won\u2019t get everything I want to do done before I leave! Cramming my weeks full of school work so that the weekends are free, so I can make the most of them makes it go even faster! <\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m halfway through midterms at the moment- they haven\u2019t been as bad as I thought- it\u2019s much easier to learn half the material half way through while it\u2019s still fresh rather than having exams at the end of term like at Cardiff. In between revising for exams and writing essays I\u2019ve managed to see a lot more of Canada. Myself and some friends took part in Day of the Longboat down at Jericho Beach, which involved us racing around buoys in long boats collecting batons and banging gongs along the way. It was so much fun! <\/span><\/p>\n

We also visited Richmond Night market before it closed for winter- it was amazing loads of Asian food to\u00a0try\u00a0and hundreds of stalls to browse! Cycling around Stanley Park has been a definite highlight of my tip so far, getting views Downtown and across the sea to the islands from a bike was amazing, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever stop being amazed by the scenery here! <\/span><\/p>\n

I spent Thanks Giving in Whistler with a few friends, we caught a coach up there and stayed in a hostel. We did the longest zip line in north America and a few of the local hikes. It was so nice to get away from campus and academic stress for a whole 3 days, I can\u2019t wait for my next weekend away- hopefully Victoria or Seattle next!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"One
One of the lakes we hiked around at Whistler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"We
We got to whistler in time for the first snow fall- this is before we did the zip line<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The autumn leaves from bedroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Views
Views of Downtown from Stanley Park bike ride<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jericho
Jericho Beach- where we did Day of the Longboat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s week 7 here out of a 12-week term, it\u2019s scary how fast time here is flying by and I\u2019m beginning to panic that I won\u2019t get everything I want […]","protected":false},"author":1053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[269],"tags":[42,273,49,90,58,18,106],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-exchange","tag-erasmus","tag-north-america","tag-sightseeing","tag-studying","tag-travel","tag-travelexperiences","tag-weekend"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4QQbz-l9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3337,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/a-quick-update-from-an-aspiring-kiwi\/","url_meta":{"origin":1311,"position":0},"title":"A quick update from an aspiring kiwi","author":"Jade Rushby","date":"May 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome to my newest blog post. 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