{"id":311,"date":"2010-06-04T20:57:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T18:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/04\/my-%e2%80%98official%e2%80%99-gvn-home\/"},"modified":"2017-09-21T16:57:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:57:22","slug":"my-official-gvn-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/04\/my-official-gvn-home\/","title":{"rendered":"My \u2018official\u2019 GVN home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.volunteerjournals.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/haiti_flag.jpg\" width=\"16\" height=\"11\" alt=\"\" title=\"Haiti\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>[Deutscher Text unten]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My volunteer time in Haiti is still several months away (I&#8217;m signed up October 14 &#8211; December 14), but thanks to volunteer coordinator Kathryn for giving me my own blog here! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.volunteerjournals.org\/wordpress\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently in the process of hunting for the best flight &#8211; not a totally straightforward process, because I plan on taking a week&#8217;s vacation on the way back, probably in Florida, as Miami seems to be where all the flights go anyway. I might end up going to my fave travel agency here in Switzerland anyway, we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m obviously also reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volunteerjournals.org\/category\/haiti\/\">blogs<\/a> other Haiti volunteers are writing during their time there with great interest and more than a little nervousness. I keep telling myself that this is an adventure and that dealing with mental and physical discomfort is just part of it. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.volunteerjournals.org\/wordpress\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t expect a lot of posts here for the time being &#8211; I mostly just wanted to check in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Bis zu meinem Einsatz in Haiti sind es noch Monate (ich hab mich f\u00fcr die Zeit vom 14. Oktober bis 14. Dezember angemeldet), aber dank unserer Koordinatorin Kathryn hab ich jetzt schon mein eigenes Blog hier. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.volunteerjournals.org\/wordpress\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Momentan bin ich gerade auf der Suche nach den g\u00fcnstigsten Fl\u00fcgen &#8211; nicht ganz einfach, weil ich auf dem R\u00fcckweg gerne eine Woche Ferien machen w\u00fcrde, wahrscheinlich in Florida, da die meisten Fl\u00fcge eh via Miami zu gehen scheinen. Vielleicht geh ich schlussendlich doch ins Reiseb\u00fcro hier in der Schweiz, mal sehen&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mit grossem Interesse &#8211; und mehr als ein bisschen Nervosit\u00e4t &#8211; lese ich auch schon die (englisch-sprachigen) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volunteerjournals.org\/category\/haiti\/\">Blogs<\/a>, die andere Haiti-Freiwillige von ihrem Einsatz aus schreiben. Ich halte mir einfach immer wieder vor Augen, dass das ein grosses Abenteuer ist und geistige und k\u00f6rperliche Unannehmlichkeiten einfach dazugeh\u00f6ren. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.volunteerjournals.org\/wordpress\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Erwartet noch nicht viele Beitr\u00e4ge von mir hier in n\u00e4chster Zeit &#8211; haupts\u00e4chlich wollte ich mich einfach mal melden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Deutscher Text unten] My volunteer time in Haiti is still several months away (I&#8217;m signed up October 14 &#8211; December 14), but thanks to volunteer coordinator Kathryn for giving me my own blog here! I&#8217;m currently in the process of hunting for the best flight &#8211; not a totally straightforward process, because I plan on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/04\/my-official-gvn-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My \u2018official\u2019 GVN home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-haiti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}