{"id":4181,"date":"2019-01-25T13:21:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T18:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2019-01-25T13:21:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T18:21:59","slug":"humans-of-rc-shes-got-the-whole-world-in-her-heart-carolyn-kitsock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=4181","title":{"rendered":"Humans of RC: She\u2019s got the whole world in her heart, Carolyn Kitsock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Shamira James<\/em><\/p>\n

Carolyn Kitsock is a junior from Lancaster, PA. Along with being a Communications major with a concentration in marketing, she is also on the RC women\u2019s tennis team, an RA and a Chi Omega sister.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI had always wanted to study abroad, and England interested me so much. I got to stay in Brighton which is only, like, an hour away from London. I fell in love with the city. It was so bright and vibrant, and the people were incredible. They were so relaxed, they just didn\u2019t want to be a bother to anyone, like when my classmates would show up late for class, it wasn\u2019t a big deal. They just apologized and we carried on. {Parts of society and their culture made it easy to fit in, but there were all these other things that were different. <\/span><\/p>\n

The night life there isn\u2019t like it is here. There aren\u2019t basement frat parties, they have clubs and then they also have \u2018flat parties\u2019 which are just small apartment parties that are very lowkey and relaxed but still a really fun time. And then, even more so, just adapting to say certain things like \u2018football\u2019 instead of \u2018soccer\u2019 or \u2018toilet\u2019 instead of \u2018bathroom\u2019 or instead of saying \u2018hey, what\u2019s up?\u2019 I\u2019d have to say \u2018hey, are you alright?\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was really surprised at how much of our pop culture they watched and were interested in. Being from America, they all thought it was cool and I always got questions about life over here like, \u2018is high school like the movies?\u2019 and I thought that was weird, because in America we see those movies as obvious dramatic depictions of American life and not what high school could be like. Like, there are those relatable moments, but we still understand it\u2019s not all true, but they were very much intrigued by the way they see America on TV. Even the music there was mainly songs I recognized. In the clubs they would play maybe 10 American songs and then maybe one British song I didn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSettling back in has been incredible. I chose this fall semester to go abroad so that I wouldn\u2019t miss an entire [tennis] season. I also got to come back to all my RA friends, and I\u2019m happy about that too, because it just would\u2019ve been weird to come back to not be an RA again. The FOMO was bad in the beginning of the year, but once I got busy and started doing my own thing it got easier, but the worst was that I would still get the daily emails that would have the commons menu on it or events going on around campus, and that always got me a little. <\/span><\/p>\n

I was happy with my choice to go away in the fall because the spring semester is major. All of the seniors leave, I\u2019m playing tennis, it\u2019s getting warmer outside so everyone is a little less tense \u2013 spring semester is the ultimate grind.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think everyone should go abroad because it\u2019s unlike an experience I\u2019ve ever had. I don\u2019t know if that opportunity would\u2019ve come up ever again, for me to study these things in a different country and then on top of that, just learning these things with the lens and experience of being in another country with such a beautiful country. And, yes you\u2019re leaving behind Roanoke, a place that we all love, but you\u2019re getting a chance to take a break from the bubble we\u2019re in and go out and explore. It\u2019s clich\u00e9, but you find yourself going out there and it makes you appreciate it here and around the world so much more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Shamira James Carolyn Kitsock is a junior from Lancaster, PA. Along with being a Communications major with a concentration in marketing, she is also on the RC women\u2019s tennis team, an RA and a Chi Omega sister. \u201cI had always wanted to study abroad, and England interested me so much. I got to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":4183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-folks-at-noke"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-1.21.19-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}