{"id":195,"date":"2010-03-21T14:23:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T04:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mijts.net\/wordpress\/?p=195"},"modified":"2010-03-21T14:25:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T04:25:23","slug":"marias-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Maria&#8217;s week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I have decided to also start contributing to our blog &#8211; just to post what I have been doing to fill in MY time in Kokopo.<br \/>\nOn Monday, Tuesday and Thursday I went to a local Secondary school where I am doing volunteer work &#8211; teaching 5 classes a week of Year 10 remedial English. Resources are scarce but I found some abridged copies of &#8216;Born Free&#8217; in the storeroom so we are working with that. The girls are really enjoying the book and the classes &#8211; especially as I was able to take in some photos that I took whilst I was on my African safari last year. They were quite amazed and fascinated when I showed these two in particular &#8211; generated a lot of discusson!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mijts.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_6748-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mijts.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_6748-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lion Walk\" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_6748-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_6748-1-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mijts.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_6882-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mijts.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_6882-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Elephant Ride\" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_6882-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_6882-2-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the three days that I am at the school I also teach a small group of 4 and 5 year olds (mostly children and grandchildren of teachers) for about one and a half hours each day. These little ones are VERY cute, speak next to no English and I have very little Tok Pisin &#8211; makes for interesting sessions. They can now say &#8216;My name is&#8230;&#8217;; &#8216;Good Morning Maria&#8217;; &#8216;I can run.&#8217;;&#8217;I can hop.&#8217;; &#8216;I can skip.&#8217; and sentences like that. Glad there are no photos of me demonstrating these actions (as I do!)<\/p>\n<p>I usually play golf on wednesday but the lady I play with was out of PNG on holidays so instead, I got out my box of paper scraps and made some cards.Thought I might share them with you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mijts.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P3210135.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mijts.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P3210135.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"P3210135\" width=\"800\" height=\"444\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P3210135.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P3210135-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mijts.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P3210137.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mijts.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P3210137.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"P3210137\" width=\"800\" height=\"469\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P3210137.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P3210137-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I have decided to also start contributing to our blog &#8211; just to post what I have been doing to fill in MY time in Kokopo. On Monday, Tuesday and Thursday I went to a local Secondary school where I am doing volunteer work &#8211; teaching 5 classes a week of Year 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mijts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}