{"id":2493,"date":"2013-04-07T14:51:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T05:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2013-04-07T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T05:51:11","slug":"%e3%83%81%e3%82%a7%e3%83%ab%e3%82%b7%e3%83%bc%e3%83%bb%e3%82%ab%e3%82%bc%e3%82%a2%e3%83%bc%ef%bc%9a%e3%81%ab%e3%81%93%e3%81%ab%e3%81%93%e3%83%88%e3%83%9e%e3%83%88%e3%83%9c%e3%83%a9%e3%83%b3%e3%83%86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2013\/04\/07\/%e3%83%81%e3%82%a7%e3%83%ab%e3%82%b7%e3%83%bc%e3%83%bb%e3%82%ab%e3%82%bc%e3%82%a2%e3%83%bc%ef%bc%9a%e3%81%ab%e3%81%93%e3%81%ab%e3%81%93%e3%83%88%e3%83%9e%e3%83%88%e3%83%9c%e3%83%a9%e3%83%b3%e3%83%86","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Quezergue\uff1aVolunteering at Nico Nico Tomato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My recent weeks at NikoToma have gone more smoothly than the weeks preceding them I think.\u00a0 Perhaps that can be attributed to me getting over the initial disappointment I harbored about not being able to play with children. \u00a0I was under the impression that we [the volunteers] would be doing activities with children every week, but I quickly learned that wasn\u2019t the case.\u00a0 However, as one of my teachers commented, it <em>is <\/em>volunteer work after all, and more often than not, volunteers have to do rather less-than-pleasant tasks, so\u300c\u4ed5\u65b9\u304c\u306a\u3044\u300d.\u00a0 If we did not do those small, tedious tasks\u2014using toothpicks to pick up microscopic cutouts of animals and painstakingly glue them to bite-sized paper handbags; making sure to find a \u201cbalance\u201d when arranging goody bags, lest the aesthetics of the candy be ruined, even though the kids are just going rip it open in crazed excitement \u2014who would?<\/p>\n<p>At this point, I know it seems like I\u2019m actually belittling the program with sarcasm, but I\u2019m not.\u00a0 I\u2019ve grown to genuinely appreciate (if not enjoy) the things we do at NikoToma, whatever they may be, because I know we are providing the volunteer group with help that it needs.\u00a0 Besides that, it just so happens that all of (or almost all of) the students in KCJS from Boston University participate in this CIP, and this has instilled a certain amount of pride in me about being a part of it.\u00a0 And that\u2019s enough to make me happy about going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My recent weeks at NikoToma have gone more smoothly than the weeks preceding them I think.\u00a0 Perhaps that can b &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2013\/04\/07\/%e3%83%81%e3%82%a7%e3%83%ab%e3%82%b7%e3%83%bc%e3%83%bb%e3%82%ab%e3%82%bc%e3%82%a2%e3%83%bc%ef%bc%9a%e3%81%ab%e3%81%93%e3%81%ab%e3%81%93%e3%83%88%e3%83%9e%e3%83%88%e3%83%9c%e3%83%a9%e3%83%b3%e3%83%86\">\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_locale":"ja","_original_post":"2493"},"categories":[41,51,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493"}],"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\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}