{"id":1189,"date":"2010-03-13T20:22:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T20:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2010-03-14T15:25:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T15:25:16","slug":"south-africa-our-first-day-in-the-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=1189","title":{"rendered":"South Africa- our first day in the bush!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1193\" title=\"Our new friends!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0337-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Our new friends!\" width=\"706\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0337-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0337-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0337.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Our first eventful day!<\/h2>\n<p>Written by Emmy Fisher, Angelica Chan and Val Reece<\/p>\n<p>Today was our first day of the trip and we spent the morning enjoying our lovely environment at the hostel, watching many beautiful birds, whilst Angelica caught up on her beauty sleep.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon we went to Letaba school to meet the children. We were met by smiling faces, children running up to us to<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1190\" style=\"width: 207px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1190\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1190\" title=\"Child at Letaba school\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/letaba_boy_march-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"A happy smile at Letaba school\" width=\"197\" height=\"257\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A happy smile at Letaba school<\/p><\/div>\n<p>hold our hands and give us hugs and high-fives. It was great to meet them and experience the friendly, happy atmosphere of the school, but also gain a little understanding of the difficulties that these children face. It\u2019s amazing how happy the children are just to see us, and it\u2019ll be fantastic to spend the next two weeks working with them. The children in Letaba School were very energetic and happy, which was totally out of my expectation. Seeing these children face to face is a completely different experience from watching them on a TV programme.<br \/>\nl think we are going to make a great team and we all agree that this trip is all focused on the children. We can\u2019t wait to get started and are looking forward to our trip tomorrow to Chimpanzee Eden.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1192\" style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1192\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1192\" title=\"The first few volunteers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0366-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The beginning of our team, with more joining us tomorrow!\" width=\"333\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0366-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0366-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0366.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The beginning of our team, with more joining us tomorrow!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first day in the bush, we visited Letaba special needs School, getting to know the children and getting to know eachother!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}