{"id":3203,"date":"2013-10-23T14:41:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T18:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2024-01-29T12:36:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T17:36:22","slug":"getting-ready-for-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/getting-ready-for-jamaica\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready for Jamaica&#8230; by Cher Gauweiler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had so much fun on Friday at the farewell dinner with all of the preservice teachers headed towards Jamaica. November is right around the corner&#8230;I know that they are in for an experience they will cherish forever. In the meantime, please see the video from some Jamaican children\u00a0a few years ago. Georgene Crowe, one of the organizers of this project, shared it with me. She said, &#8220;You can imagine our joy that day! We did not know the students had been writing and practicing, an amazing joyful surprise.\u00a0Makes me happy and cry every time I watch it.&#8221; One of the best parts about this project is how appreciative everyone is &#8211; both American volunteers and all of the participants in the schools.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jamaican Students Sing About Great Shape! Inc.\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nIEpVRU-Bwk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had so much fun on Friday at the farewell dinner with all of the preservice teachers headed towards Jamaica. November is right around the corner&#8230;I know that they are in for an experience they will cherish forever. In the meantime, please see the video from some Jamaican children\u00a0a few years ago. Georgene Crowe, one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/getting-ready-for-jamaica\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting ready for Jamaica&#8230; by Cher Gauweiler<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[26,7],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jamaica-education","category-study-abroad","tag-jamaica-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9961,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions\/9961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}