{"id":25997,"date":"2024-06-19T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T06:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=25997"},"modified":"2024-06-19T09:00:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T06:00:28","slug":"a-moment-that-changed-me-i-walked-into-the-party-shy-and-anxious-i-walked-out-a-whole-new-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=25997","title":{"rendered":"A moment that changed me: I walked into the party, shy and anxious. I walked out a whole new woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I boarded the train at Beijing I felt timid, a cautious traveller. But a chaotic and vodka-soaked party set me off on a very different path<\/p>\n<p>In 2001, after spending a year studying in Beijing as part of our degree, two friends and I decided to travel to Mongolia and Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railway. We did everything as cheaply as possible, to the extent that I was terrified we were going to be flung off the train at the Mongolia-Russia border, because we\u2019d got our visas from a tiny, dodgy-looking agency in a random tower block in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Being worried was pretty much my default state at that time. I found talking to strangers difficult, and struggled to raise my hand in class. I was always terrified of making mistakes. Though it wasn\u2019t a devastating shyness, I envied the way that friends and classmates always seemed at home in different groups and situations \u2013 a feeling that had always eluded me.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/article\/2024\/jun\/19\/a-moment-that-changed-me-i-walked-into-the-party-shy-and-anxious-i-walked-out-a-whole-new-woman\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I boarded the train at Beijing I felt timid, a cautious traveller. But a chaotic and vodka-soaked party set me off on a very different path In 2001, after&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-without-rubric"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}