{"id":8763,"date":"2018-12-12T22:02:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T22:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=8763"},"modified":"2020-07-17T15:32:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T15:32:42","slug":"augsburg-river-semester-2018-students-returned-to-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2018\/12\/12\/augsburg-river-semester-2018-students-returned-to-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg River Semester students return to Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/12\/River-Semester-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8764 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/12\/River-Semester-2-300x203.png\" alt=\"A group of Augsburg students canoeing on the Mississippi River\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/12\/River-Semester-2-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/12\/River-Semester-2-768x519.png 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/12\/River-Semester-2.png 902w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>After 100 days of traveling and studying the Mississippi River, students returned to Minnesota on Dec. 2.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/12\/DtgEIy9VsAAbx5R.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8765 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/12\/DtgEIy9VsAAbx5R-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"A group of Augsburg students posing for a photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/12\/DtgEIy9VsAAbx5R-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/12\/DtgEIy9VsAAbx5R.jpg 568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The group had a welcome back celebration on Dec. 6 at Augsburg&#8217;s Marshall Room. They shared their experiences, showed videos, and even sang. Kristy\u00a0Ornelas, one of the 15 participating River Semester students, documented the group&#8217;s semester-long journey is a series of five videos uploaded to her YouTube channel. In these videos, students share their day-to-day life during the second River Semester. The first was in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that we&#8217;ve been able to spend 100 days together in a really small tight-knit group is nothing I&#8217;ve ever done and the challenge and rewards of this experience is nothing I could ever imagine,&#8221; said student Spoir Delmain, in the video titled &#8220;What a Wonderful World.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think family is the best way to know how to call our group, and I feel that way because we take care of each other in different ways. We&#8217;ve learned how to support each other, cheer each other on, or cry on each other&#8217;s shoulders,&#8221; Delmain said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLhZWH2wcDn3TzNKIH9hbccuqspVP3xL4q\">Watch Kristy Ornelas&#8217; River Semester series on her YouTube channel.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Related articles<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2018\/11\/19\/river-semester-2018\/\">River Semester 2018<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 100 days of traveling and studying the Mississippi River, students returned to Minnesota on Dec. 2. The group had a welcome back celebration on Dec. 6 at Augsburg&#8217;s Marshall Room. They shared their experiences, showed videos, and even sang. Kristy\u00a0Ornelas, one of the 15 participating River Semester students, documented the group&#8217;s semester-long journey is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8763"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10077,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions\/10077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}