{"id":3501,"date":"2015-11-09T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/?p=3501"},"modified":"2015-11-09T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T18:11:00","slug":"down-at-the-barbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/down-at-the-barbie\/","title":{"rendered":"Down at the Barbie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\"3105824455\"<\/a><\/em>Jarinn Settsu is a senior in Kinesiology<\/a> through the College of Public Health and Human Sciences <\/a>and an\u00a0International Ambassador<\/a> for the Office of Global Opportunities<\/a>. Last winter\/spring semester, Jarinn travelled to Sydney, Australia<\/a> on an OSU Exchange Program<\/a> for the adventure of a lifetime. Read on to learn about his favorite parts about being abroad in a strange, new culture!<\/em><\/p>\n

My most memorable experience about studying abroad in Sydney, Australia was definitely, as clich\u00e9 as it is, having barbeques by the beach. During the barbeques I had the unique opportunity to try some food native to Australia. I\u2019m not talking koala burgers or quokka sausages, but I am talking about Kangaroo steaks and emu burgers. The reason why these barbeques were the most memorable experience of my time studying abroad is because it gave me the opportunity to interact with\u00a0people who lived in Australia their entire life and from people from all over the world.<\/p>\n

At these barbeques, there were people from the United Kingdom to Saudi Arabia, from Florence, Italy to Beijing, and all the countries in between. It allowed me to learn not only about my culture and the Australian culture, but cultures all over the world. It\u2019s amazing to see how, no matter where you may live in the world, there are always things you\u2019ll have in common with someone. The differences you may have, whether it be cultural or specific interests, are ways to learn about cultures from people who actually grew up in that culture and get a first hand account of their life and rich history of their culture.\"20150621_142856\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Australian culture, words can\u2019t begin to explain the Australian culture\u2026but I\u2019ll try. The Australian culture is centered around the history of the native Aboriginal people. Because of this, it only seemed right to dive right into trying to learn the history of the Aboriginal people. One way I tried to immerse myself in the Australian culture was through the playing of the didgeridoo. Lets just say I\u2019ll stay in school. But it was an amazing way to learn the stories and history played through the didgeridoo. Although we may come from all backgrounds, countries, and religions, there are some things in the world that people can bond over. Whether it be, food, music, and the desire to experience new cultures outside of our own. We just need to be open and willing to take the time to learn about cultures other than our own, and I believe studying abroad provides you the opportunity to do so.\"Sydney<\/a><\/p>\n

I came to Australia wanting to learn more about the Australian culture, but I left with the experience of learning about cultures all over the world. That\u2019s something that would take years of studying in the classroom, but I was able to in a matter of 15 barbecues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Jarinn Settsu is a senior in Kinesiology through the College of Public Health and Human Sciences and an\u00a0International Ambassador for the Office of Global Opportunities. Last winter\/spring semester, Jarinn travelled to Sydney, Australia on an OSU Exchange Program for the adventure of a lifetime. Read on to learn about his favorite parts about being abroad… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1163945,1163971,1163974,1163959,1163946,1],"tags":[140590,437317,2623,1573,1046],"class_list":["post-3501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-college-of-public-health-and-human-sciences","category-exchange","category-returnee","category-study-abroad","category-uncategorized","tag-college-of-public-health-and-human-sciences","tag-kinesiology","tag-public-health","tag-returnee","tag-study-abroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3512,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions\/3512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}