{"id":2435,"date":"2017-10-09T11:21:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T10:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2017-10-26T10:16:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T09:16:55","slug":"unforgettable-cultural-exchange-lsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/2017\/10\/unforgettable-cultural-exchange-lsi\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unforgettable Cultural Exchange!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LSI London Central student, Vin\u00edcius Andrade de Jesus talks about his reasons for leaving Brazil to come and study at LSI\u00a0. He reveals his\u00a0thoughts about the whole experience and opportunities for cultural exchange.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I first came to the UK six years ago, but it was only for a quick sightseeing trip around London. Anyway it was enough time to get me impressed by this fascinating city.\u00a0\u00a0It has an incredible cultural richness,\u00a0a cosmopolitan spirit and I love that it seems so vast and diverse.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s why this time I decided I was going to come and stay a bit longer. Honestly it was one of the best ideas I&#8217;ve ever had. It was great studying at LSI, having classes with a very nice teacher while being in\u00a0 central London, close to so many amazing places in the capital city of the world. The other great aspect was of course being able to speak English all the time, which surely helped me improve my speaking and listening skills and gave me confidence to talk to people anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0met people from every corner of the globe and\u00a0made so many\u00a0friends. I particularly connected with a guy from Saudi Arabia, but\u00a0also\u00a0made friends with people from\u00a0Turkey, Switzerland, Poland, Japan, Spain, Palestine, France, Chile, and of course Brazil. This was easily one of the best parts of this experience. The possibility to spend time with people from various cultural backgrounds and learn so many things with them.<\/p>\n<p>Add to this the wonderful trips we went on together around Britain. Places such as Cambridge, Bath, Brighton, Liverpool,&#8230;) and\u00a0please believe\u00a0me when I say that it&#8217;s hard to out into words just how exciting and\u00a0 unforgettable experience this is.<\/p>\n<p>Now I really wish I could go back in time and live it all again. But since that&#8217;s not possible, I&#8217;ll probably just book\u00a0another course\u00a0at LSI next year. Perhaps\u00a0I&#8217;ll see if I can persuade my girlfriend to come with me. I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;ll love it, as will anyone who decides to take the plunge. It truly is a\u00a0BRILLIANT life experience!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2441\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Vinicius-Andrade-de-Jesus-2-TowerOfLondon.jpg\" alt=\"LSI London Central student Vinicius Andrade enjoying the cultural exchange at the Tower of London\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Vinicius-Andrade-de-Jesus-2-TowerOfLondon.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Vinicius-Andrade-de-Jesus-2-TowerOfLondon-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LSI London Central student, Vin\u00edcius Andrade de Jesus talks about his reasons for leaving Brazil to come and study at&nbsp;[&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-life","tag-lsi-london-central","post-item clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}