{"id":14196,"date":"2025-04-15T10:39:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T01:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=14196"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:25:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:25:34","slug":"mia-nakamura-volunteering-at-a-nursery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2025\/04\/15\/mia-nakamura-volunteering-at-a-nursery","title":{"rendered":"Mia Nakamura: Volunteering at a Nursery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14202 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1668-590x787.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1668-590x787.jpeg 590w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1668-193x257.jpeg 193w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1668-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1668-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1668-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1668-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1668-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">For my CIP, I volunteered at Pesutarotchi Nursery, which is a place for kids from ages 0-6. Every week, I would go to the nursery, wake the kids up from their nap, gather them and eat a snack together, play with them, and then help clean up. The reason that I wanted to do this activity for my CIP was because I do not have much experience with young kids since I am the youngest child and cousin on both my dad and mom&#8217;s sides, so I wanted to get more comfortable playing and interacting with them. A lot of the time I felt very awkward, but after some time, just being around the same kids allowed me to build a rapport with them, so after a while they would come and play with me. My advice to incoming students is to just act like a kid when you&#8217;re playing with the kids and don&#8217;t overthink how to interact with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For my CIP, I volunteered at Pesutarotchi Nursery, which is a place for kids from ages 0-6. Every week, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2025\/04\/15\/mia-nakamura-volunteering-at-a-nursery\">\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_locale":"ja","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=14196"},"categories":[57,183,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14196"}],"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\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14196"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14203,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14196\/revisions\/14203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}