{"id":1138,"date":"2019-12-11T16:43:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2019-12-11T16:43:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:43:18","slug":"postcard-from-england-by-mohammed-alqarni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/postcard-from-england-by-mohammed-alqarni\/","title":{"rendered":"POSTCARD FROM ENGLAND by Mohammed Alqarni"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pic-3-Dominic-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pic-3-Dominic-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pic-3-Dominic-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pic-3-Dominic-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pic-3-Dominic-667x500.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pic-3-Dominic-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pic-3-Dominic.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Mohammed on the right, with classmate Eisa and Hilderstone teacher Dominic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohammed is from Saudi Arabia, and came to Hilderstone last September. When he arrived he did not speak much English, but he has made great progress, as you can see from his writing below! He will stay until next summer, and we are looking forward to seeing his skills in English develop even more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When I arrived here\nit was a very long day because I arrived at 12.00 pm and I went directly to\nBroadstairs! I was very tired, I slept for a long time. I went to my College.\nIt was good day when I met new friends. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I have been to\nLondon, I found it an amazing city and I met some Arabic people there. I haven\u2019t\nbeen to Liverpool because it\u2019s so far, but I will go there when I have a\nchance. I have been to Ashford. It has a very big shopping centre. I bought a\nlot of clothes and some shoes, but I couldn\u2019t find everything I needed. I\nenjoyed it there with my friends and I will visit it another time. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I have been here\nabout three months. I\u2019m very happy. I find all the people very kind and very nice.<\/strong><strong>I\u2019m\ngoing to stay three months more. I think I will be good at English and I will\nenjoy it a lot. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammed is from Saudi Arabia, and came to Hilderstone last September. When he arrived he did not speak much English, but he has made great progress, as you can see from his writing below! He will stay until next summer, and we are looking forward to seeing his skills in English develop even more. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[91,39,110,90,189,107,68,190,184,108,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}