{"id":10901,"date":"2015-12-04T19:12:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T19:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/?p=10901"},"modified":"2023-10-27T08:05:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T12:05:58","slug":"lifetime-experience-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/lifetime-experience-jamaica\/","title":{"rendered":"A Once in a Lifetime Experience in #Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10906\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/12\/12249926_10153711160288349_8682369416416854671_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10906\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/12\/12249926_10153711160288349_8682369416416854671_n-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Education in Jamaica\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/12\/12249926_10153711160288349_8682369416416854671_n-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/12\/12249926_10153711160288349_8682369416416854671_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Education in Jamaica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Before being able to participate in the Study Abroad 2015 trip to Jamaica, I had never been out of the country, so I wasn&#8217;t quite sure exactly what to expect. By the time the adventure was coming to an end, I wasn&#8217;t ready to leave just yet. Words cannot explain what I took out of the trip, but the memories will. Jamaica has so much to see and the people are the most loving and kindest I have personally ever met, and they are the ones who made this experience so memorable.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10926\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10926\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/12\/12274532_10153343714381553_424870215116719398_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10926\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/12\/12274532_10153343714381553_424870215116719398_n-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Seaford Town, Jamaica\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/12\/12274532_10153343714381553_424870215116719398_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/12\/12274532_10153343714381553_424870215116719398_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seaford Town, Jamaica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Their smiles of gratitude are so big after doing a dental cleaning on them, and their hearts are so grateful for what you were able to accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>One day we went out into the community and did education on oral hygiene, and never have I had so many children run up to me and want a hug or just to hold your hand to say hello. It is truly heart warming. The way their faces lit up\u00a0when you said you were going to give them a simple toothbrush seemed to match the excitement as if you just gave someone ten presents on Christmas. It will never be forgotten and expresses the true definition of what &#8220;One Love&#8221; really means.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, I am so appreciative for this wonderful opportunity that was presented to myself through\u00a0 the St. Petersburg\u00a0College Dental Hygiene Program. It is an experience I will always cherish and one I look forward to attending in the near future again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before being able to participate in the Study Abroad 2015 trip to Jamaica, I had never been out of the country, so I wasn&#8217;t quite sure exactly what to expect. By the time the adventure was coming to an end, I wasn&#8217;t ready to leave just yet. Words cannot explain what I took out of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/lifetime-experience-jamaica\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Once in a Lifetime Experience in #Jamaica<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":10902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[68,7],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-10901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamaica-dental","category-study-abroad","tag-jamaica-dental-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10901"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10934,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901\/revisions\/10934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}