{"id":12108,"date":"2023-04-09T16:15:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T07:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/?p=12108"},"modified":"2023-04-09T16:15:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T07:15:11","slug":"everett-zelson-volunteering-at-happiness-childrens-cafeteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2023\/04\/09\/everett-zelson-volunteering-at-happiness-childrens-cafeteria","title":{"rendered":"Everett Zelson: Volunteering at Happiness Children&#039;s Cafeteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12109 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BF6A686C-DFEB-4EDC-AFD1-06197F16EC51_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BF6A686C-DFEB-4EDC-AFD1-06197F16EC51_1_105_c.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BF6A686C-DFEB-4EDC-AFD1-06197F16EC51_1_105_c-193x257.jpeg 193w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BF6A686C-DFEB-4EDC-AFD1-06197F16EC51_1_105_c-590x787.jpeg 590w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BF6A686C-DFEB-4EDC-AFD1-06197F16EC51_1_105_c-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I volunteered at\u00a0Happiness Children&#8217;s Cafeteria this semester. Every Wednesday I would help serve free meals to local children. The nonprofit also runs a cafe and does study sessions for the students on Mondays.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers would set up, serve food, eat and play with the kids, and clean up. There was essentially no English spoken, so I was able to practice my Japanese, too.<\/p>\n<p>Advice: Try to help as much as possible. I found that they didn&#8217;t usually tell me what to do, so I had to be proactive in offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I volunteered at\u00a0Happiness Children&#8217;s Cafeteria this semester. Every Wednesday I would help serve free m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2023\/04\/09\/everett-zelson-volunteering-at-happiness-childrens-cafeteria\">\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":595,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_locale":"ja","_original_post":"12108"},"categories":[47,160,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}