{"id":6772,"date":"2013-12-19T11:17:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T05:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?p=6772"},"modified":"2013-12-19T11:17:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T05:47:39","slug":"your-first-week-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/your-first-week-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Your first week in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/LTV-Orientation2-Nov2013c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6773 alignleft\" alt=\"LTV-Orientation2-Nov2013c\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/LTV-Orientation2-Nov2013c-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>The month of November saw another set of 18 mid- to long-term volunteers (MLTV) join us in India. Their first few days were carefully planned out for a week-long orientation session that discussed various aspects of what their stay in India would entail. The volunteers joined us from 9 different nationalities and the orientations took place at both our Bengaluru (Head Office) and Kundapura offices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Here is what you can expect from an orientation week:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8211;\u00a0 <strong>Expectations and fears:<\/strong> this exercise is aimed at addressing the expectations and fears that volunteers may have, with a view to helping them manage their projects successfully<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8211; <strong>Country presentation:<\/strong> an important part of intercultural exchange, these presentations involve volunteers preparing and presenting the various cultures of their countries<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8211; <strong>Project visit:<\/strong> this gives volunteers a hands-on experience of what they may expect in their project and gives them a glimpse of their roles and responsibilities<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8211; <strong>Host family visit:<\/strong> provides a brief introduction to life in a host family and highlights some Do\u2019s and Don\u2019ts<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The first week of each month is usually reserved for these orientation sessions, which always begin with an Indian welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The month of November saw another set of 18 mid- to long-term volunteers (MLTV) join us in India. Their first few days were carefully planned out for a week-long orientation session that discussed various aspects of what their stay in India would entail. The volunteers joined us from 9 different nationalities and the orientations took place at both our Bengaluru (Head Office) and Kundapura offices. Here is what you can expect from an orientation week:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"Closed","ping_status":"Closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fslnews","category-orientation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}