{"id":2731,"date":"2016-04-04T12:04:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T02:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/qut-exchange-students\/?p=2731"},"modified":"2016-02-08T17:05:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T07:05:20","slug":"best-4-months-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/gone-global\/2016\/04\/04\/best-4-months-of-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Best 4 months of my life"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2714\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2714\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/qut-exchange-students\/files\/2015\/10\/7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2714\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/qut-exchange-students\/files\/2015\/10\/7.jpg\" alt=\"Korea and the friends I've made\" width=\"750\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Korea and the friends I&#8217;ve made<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Over the course of 4 months, I got to visit a lot of places all over Japan; I only regret I hadn\u2019t done more travelling. There were beautiful castles and temples, theme parks that made the ones here look small, mountains that had a great view and hidden locations a little off the beaten track. I even got to go to Seoul, South Korea for a few days since it was so close. There were places I had only ever seen through a screen or read about, sights I hadn\u2019t even imagined before, I even developed an interest in nature from all the hiking and nature viewing I did.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">There was always something new I wanted to see, but time only got less as the semester went on and I was more than satisfied with the amount of sightseeing I had done anyway.The best part of travelling however, wasn\u2019t the the beautiful sights, rather it was the friends that I had been travelling with. Friends that I could have stayed with for a lifetime, continually travelling together and seeing new places.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At the end of the exchange, I left with a heavy heart, but at the same time I couldn\u2019t have been happier after all the things I was able to experience. I didn\u2019t have a single worry while in Japan. Things like finance and studies (and to an extent security, whoo Japan) never bothered me. Not that it would have since I could get by on a little over $1000 a month including accommodation and the classes were easy enough that I don\u2019t think I studied for more than 2 hours the whole semester.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It was the best 4 months of my life and the friends I made I\u2019ll hold dear to me. There\u2019s no way I could share it all and not have it be too long a read, the best thing to do is to find out for yourself. 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