{"id":518,"date":"2025-08-20T12:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/?p=518"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:33:14","slug":"navigating-through-memory-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/2025\/08\/20\/navigating-through-memory-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigating through memory lane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During our visit to the Botanical Garden, me and Kelly had to wander off on our own adventure. As I walked around and explored the environment, I felt like I was walking down memory lane and revisiting my younger self. Not many people know this about me but as a kid I grew up loving maps. And it all started from a school field trip to the Longwood Garden, which is similar to the Botanical Garden. What made my Longwood Garden experience such a strong core memory was that we had to use a physical map and a compass to guide us around the garden to complete a scavenger hunt. It was a unique experience, although my group may not have completed the scavenger hunt in first place, I knew I gained something new that I would forever treasure. My trip to Longwood Garden had inspired a new habit of mine, which is to become aware of what direction I was facing (cardinal direction) and how easily I can navigate around different places.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u00a0During our trip to Dublin, I do admit that it\u2019s the first time where I didn\u2019t know where I was facing. It kept bothering me for the first few days, eventually I forgot about it up until my visit to the Botanical Garden. I haven\u2019t revisited the Longwood Garden after that school field trip, therefore being present at the Botanical Garden felt so unreal to me. Reliving my experience made me realize just how much I love my navigation skills and how easily I can remember my way around cities and maps.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;And as a bonus experience, I did a mini scavenger hunt at the Botanical Garden. Kelly texted me to meet up again and a little fun fact about Kelly is that she can easily get lost with her sense of direction, which apparently, I had forgotten. I had shared my location so that she could find her way to me, but after a few minutes I noticed that she was taking a long time to arrive. I checked her location, and she seemed to have gotten farther away. We then came up with a conclusion that I should be the one to find her. And this experience made me feel like I was my 11 year old self again trying to complete this scavenger hunt.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-3b592a59\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider glide\" data-per-view=\"1\" data-gap=\"0\" data-peek=\"0\" data-autoplay=\"true\" data-height=\"400px\" data-hide-arrows=\"false\"><div class=\"glide__track\" data-glide-el=\"track\"><div class=\"glide__slides\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-item-wrapper glide__slide\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-item\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/files\/2025\/08\/IMG_2437-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-id=\"528\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-item-wrapper glide__slide\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-item\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/files\/2025\/08\/IMG_2419-2-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-id=\"529\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-item-wrapper glide__slide\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-item\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/files\/2025\/08\/IMG_2432-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-id=\"524\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-item-wrapper glide__slide\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-item\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/files\/2025\/08\/IMG_2444-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-id=\"520\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><div class=\"glide__bullets\" data-glide-el=\"controls[nav]\"><button class=\"glide__bullet\" data-glide-dir=\"=0\"><\/button><button class=\"glide__bullet\" data-glide-dir=\"=1\"><\/button><button class=\"glide__bullet\" data-glide-dir=\"=2\"><\/button><button class=\"glide__bullet\" data-glide-dir=\"=3\"><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During our visit to the Botanical Garden, me and Kelly had to wander off on our own adventure. As I walked around and explored the environment, I felt like I was walking down memory lane and revisiting my younger self. Not many people know this about me but as a kid I grew up loving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/2025\/08\/20\/navigating-through-memory-lane\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navigating through memory lane<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dublin-on-your-own"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/fairplay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}