{"id":110994,"date":"2015-07-16T20:05:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T02:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/howerton-earns-credits-in-finland\/"},"modified":"2015-07-16T20:05:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T02:05:14","slug":"howerton-earns-credits-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/howerton-earns-credits-in-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"Howerton earns credits in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d8d507f4-3908-4003-a913-2a2d0de9cde9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d8d507f4-3908-4003-a913-2a2d0de9cde9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d8d507f4-3908-4003-a913-2a2d0de9cde9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d8d507f4-3908-4003-a913-2a2d0de9cde9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1250\" height=\"900\" alt=\"Student Kaitlyn Howerton at the University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 in Finland, where she took classes for a month.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Student Kaitlyn Howerton at the University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 in Finland, where she took classes for a month.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Dolores High School alumni Kaitlyn Howerton knew that she would be a  long way from home last month when she hopped on a plane to Finland.<\/p>\n<p>What she did not know was how life-changing the experience would be. Pursuing degrees in elementary and deaf education, Howerton\u2019s overseas adventure earned her six college credits and a trip to remember.<\/p>\n<p>Howerton attends  Utah State University in Logan. The school partners with ISEP, the International Student Exchange Program, to send students to international schools to enrich their learning. On such school is the University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 in Finland, where tuition and education are free for students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a neat experience getting to go someplace that was different,\u201d said Howerton, who was there a month. \u201cExperiencing things completely on my own was an amazing experience, a life-changing experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her favorite class was Finnish culture and language, which she took during her first week.<\/p>\n<p>After class, exchange students stayed in a castle and toured Helsinki, the capital. They visited museums and a sauna and sampled local foods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey sauna as much as they shower,\u201d said Howerton, adding, \u201cFinnish chocolate is amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said she enjoyed interacting with Finns and exchange students and learning about their cultures. It helped that most Finns speak English.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a friend now in every continent but Antarctica,\u201d she said with a chuckle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I have a friend now in every continent but Antarctica\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5794,5735],"tags":[13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-110994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110994"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=110994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}