{"id":555,"date":"2013-09-14T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/student-travelers-heading-home\/"},"modified":"2014-12-22T15:28:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T15:28:44","slug":"student-travelers-heading-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/student-travelers-heading-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Travelers Heading Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"\/admin\/pages\/\" title=\"Student Travelers Heading Home. Photo credit: Amy Wiener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2013\/9\/byedublin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBy now as a student traveler, you&rsquo;ve gotten to know your foreign city, made tons of close friends, traveled as much as you could, and of course, got some studying in there somewhere.&nbsp;&nbsp; Just as you&rsquo;ve gotten over the homesickness and&nbsp; used to some of the more challenging differences during your study abroad, it&rsquo;s time to come home.&nbsp; Where do you start? It&rsquo;s almost as overwhelming as it was to go abroad in the first place! <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\/\"><br \/>\n\t<\/a><\/p>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\/\">Book your flight<\/a><\/strong> &ndash; This may seem obvious.&nbsp; And as the savvy world traveler you&rsquo;ve become, you now know, the earlier the better. I hesitated because I did not want to leave.&nbsp; If you give yourself a target date coinciding with something exciting to look forward to at home, it may make your homecoming slightly less heart wrenching.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&rsquo;s kind of like ripping off a band aid: you just have to do it quickly. <br \/>\n\t<strong><br \/>\n\t<\/strong><\/li>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n\t<\/strong><\/p>\n<li><strong>Take care of your business<\/strong> &ndash; This is a very general heading, but really it&rsquo;s about what I like to call, &ldquo;life admin.&rdquo;&nbsp; It&rsquo;s all the stuff you don&rsquo;t want to do but know you have to do to make your life easier when you leave.&nbsp; Closing your bank account, paying your library fines, and handing in keys may seem tedious when you&rsquo;re trying to enjoy the last days in your new home away from home, but it will be a lot more difficult across an ocean or a few continents.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pack<\/strong> &#8211; It&rsquo;s annoying, but you have to do it.&nbsp; The more organized everything is going in, the easier it will be to find coming out.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s a bit different than my original packing tips (http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/news\/student-travel-packing-tips.aspx), because in this case, you have less choice and more of a burden to just get everything together and home in one piece.&nbsp;&nbsp; Set an earlier-than-necessary deadline to get everything packed so you can really enjoy your last days and nights without the chore looming over your head.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Say your goodbyes<\/strong> &ndash; This is just the worst.&nbsp; There&rsquo;s no way around it.&nbsp; My only advice is to keep an open and optimistic mind about when you will meet your new foreign friends again.&nbsp; It sounds cheesey but the phrase, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not good bye, it&rsquo;s just see you later&rdquo; really comes in handy here.&nbsp;&nbsp; Try to focus on celebrating the year you had and not what you&rsquo;ll miss after you&rsquo;re gone.\n<\/li>\n<li>Head home and plan your next adventure!\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nDon&#39;t forget to check out more great travel stories on the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\/\">CheapOair<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cheapoair\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;page!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nPhoto credit: Amy Wiener<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now as a student traveler, you&rsquo;ve gotten to know your foreign city, made tons of close friends, traveled as much as you could, and of course, got some studying in there somewhere.&nbsp;&nbsp; Just as you&rsquo;ve gotten over the homesickness and&nbsp; used to some of the more challenging differences during your study abroad, it&rsquo;s time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-travel","category-travel-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97169893,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/97169893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}