{"id":20366,"date":"2017-10-09T09:20:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T14:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=20366"},"modified":"2017-10-09T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T16:21:08","slug":"bearsofbaylor-my-parents-moved-to-germany-three-weeks-after-i-came-to-baylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2017\/10\/bearsofbaylor-my-parents-moved-to-germany-three-weeks-after-i-came-to-baylor\/","title":{"rendered":"#BearsOfBaylor &#8212; &#8220;My parents moved to Germany three weeks after I came to Baylor.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My parents moved to Germany like three weeks after I came to Baylor. (My dad&#8217;s in the Air Force.) God extremely came through in so many ways. My roommate from freshman year &#8212; we\u2019re still best friends &#8212; she is from Waco. So, her family was here for me. They were like a second family and constantly taking care of me. And then, I also had a really close friend who lives in Austin, and her parents were constantly saying, &#8216;You\u2019re welcome at our home, because it\u2019s your home.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This past summer, I spent the entire summer in Germany, and then the second half, I was able to study abroad, which was super convenient. I was like four hours from home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I decided to add a German minor&#8230; I admire Europeans, because they all know at least three languages. It\u2019s more prevalent for them, because they\u2019re so close and so many different languages are connected. I\u2019ve learned a greater appreciation for learning languages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20368\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bob-germany-oct17-square.jpg\" alt=\"#BearsOfBaylor\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bob-germany-oct17-square.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bob-germany-oct17-square-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bob-germany-oct17-square-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bob-germany-oct17-square-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bob-germany-oct17-square-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>[Every Baylor Bear has a story;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/category\/bearsofbaylor\/\">#BearsOfBaylor<\/a>\u00a0brings those stories to you, one by one. These stories, these people&#8230; This is our Baylor.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My parents moved to Germany like three weeks after I came to Baylor. (My dad&#8217;s in the Air Force.) God extremely came through in so many ways. My roommate from freshman year &#8212; we\u2019re still best friends &#8212; she is from Waco. So, her family was here for me. They were like a second family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bearsofbaylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}