{"id":14209,"date":"2025-04-18T14:25:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=14209"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:25:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:25:34","slug":"volunteering-at-mitsuba-youchien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2025\/04\/18\/volunteering-at-mitsuba-youchien","title":{"rendered":"Alex Li: Volunteering at Mitsuba Youchien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1902-590x787.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1902-590x787.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1902-193x257.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1902-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1902-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1902-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1902-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1902-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For my CIP, I volunteered in the Mitsuba Youchien every Tuesday for three hours. I would help the kids with drawings, puzzles, and other games as well as talk with them in Japanese. It was an extremely enjoyable experience and I was able to improve my Japanese through talking with the children. Although it was a bit intimidating at first, I thought they were much more patient and understanding than I had initially thought and it became second nature to talk about what they were doing and their hobbies and interests. I would recommend for people looking to do this to start asking specific questions and not being afraid to put yourself out there: that&#8217;s often the only way you will be able to start making deeper connections with the children. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1902.heic\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1902.heic\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my CIP, I volunteered in the Mitsuba Youchien every Tuesday for three hours. I would help the kids with dr &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2025\/04\/18\/volunteering-at-mitsuba-youchien\">\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=14209"},"categories":[183,43,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14209"}],"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=14209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14370,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14209\/revisions\/14370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}