{"id":6780,"date":"2015-01-26T20:04:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T01:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=6780"},"modified":"2015-01-27T11:40:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T16:40:04","slug":"jianna-hoss-college-graduate-and-world-traveler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/6780","title":{"rendered":"Jianna Hoss: College Graduate and World Traveler"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"10933082_10152659719186347_1618124199_n\"By Jenni Beaver\u2014<\/strong>For Jianna Hoss traveling isn\u2019t about the expensive flights, heavy luggage, and angry travelers. For her, traveling is about enjoying every moment, soaking it all in, and understanding what it means to live each moment like it\u2019s your last.<\/p>\n

In 2011, Hoss traveled outside of the country for the first time. She got on a plane and set off to visit her family in Doha, Quatar, and while the experience was pleasant, Hoss admits, \u201cI wish I could say I experienced Doha in my first three years over there, but I didn\u2019t.\u201d She traveled, but she didn\u2019t live the moments.<\/p>\n

After graduating in December 2014, Hoss took another trip to Doha, but this time, she lived. As she recounted her experience she said that she met someone who made her experience things like going out at 2am to have a cup of coffee at the coffeehouse on the shoreline. She was able to experience the culture and travel very differently than she had in the past.<\/p>\n

In a blog post she made while on her trip, Hoss talked about the meaning of travel. She said that many people think traveling is about making yourself bigger and by getting bigger, somehow you\u2019re made better. Although she believes traveling makes you better, she doesn\u2019t believe it\u2019s done by making you any bigger than you are when you land in that foreign country.<\/p>\n

Travel is supposed to break you and bend you. It\u2019s supposed to make you homesick for your bed, your friends, your culture, and the life that you\u2019ve temporarily put on hold. Travel, as Hoss mentions in her blog, is meant to make you better by making you smaller than you were when you arrived on foreign soil.<\/p>\n

Hoss\u2019s least favorite part of travel is leaving the place that has taught you so much. However, she believes that if you live in the moment, travel can do a multitude of things for you. She said that the number one thing she\u2019s learned from traveling is how to let it work in her. \u201cI\u2019ve learned how to let it change me. How to let it heal me\u2026 if you let it, travel will ruin you \u2013 you\u2019ll get homesick for snow and friends and people who love you without a doubt, but you\u2019ll never want to return home.\u201d<\/p>\n

She\u2019s a Morningside alum and, at least for a little while, she\u2019s a world traveler who is teaching people that travel is so much more than just getting on a plane and going somewhere. It\u2019s about changing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, the best part of travel is that you never come back the same\u2026 meet people and love people and go experience their culture, their language, and it will change you forever,\u201d said Hoss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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