{"id":6939,"date":"2014-03-06T14:35:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T09:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?p=6939"},"modified":"2014-03-06T14:35:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T09:05:57","slug":"volunteers-get-together-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/volunteers-get-together-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers&#8217; Get Together in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 January month\u2019s l<strong>ong-term volunteer\u2019s get-together (GTG)<\/strong> took place on the 16<sup>th<\/sup> and 17<sup>th<\/sup> at the beautiful Kawari Palm Grove Resort in Murudeshwar, North Canara District. Five members of our Kundapur staff team facilitated the GTG activities for 15 long-term international volunteers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6940\" alt=\"acid river\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/acid-river-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The activities included introductions, energisers, experience sharing, a Q &amp; A period and team-building games. In sharing experiences, volunteers spoke about their challenges living in host families, culture shock and learning about India. Volunteers also got the opportunity to visit Murudeshwar Temple; a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Shiva.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The monthly GTGs are a great way for volunteers and the FSL-India team to re-group for much needed down-time and conversations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Group-picture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6941 aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Group-picture-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 January month\u2019s long-term volunteer\u2019s get-together (GTG) took place on the 16th and 17th at the beautiful Kawari Palm Grove Resort in Murudeshwar, North Canara District. Five members of our Kundapur staff team facilitated the GTG activities for 15 long-term international volunteers. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The activities included introductions, energisers, experience sharing, a Q &amp; A period and team-building games. In sharing experiences, volunteers spoke about their challenges living in host families, culture shock and learning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/volunteers-get-together-in-january\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"Closed","ping_status":"Closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[6,150,163,153,40,21,276],"class_list":["post-6939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fslnews","category-ltvgtg","tag-fsl-india","tag-inter-cultural-learning","tag-intercultural-learning","tag-international-volunteering","tag-ltvgtg","tag-volunteer-in-india","tag-volunteering-in-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939","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=6939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}