{"id":5063,"date":"2008-08-27T02:26:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T17:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/2008\/08\/japan_hope_builders_08-1_update_arrival_in_bangkok_827.html"},"modified":"2017-04-25T09:45:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T00:45:47","slug":"japan_hope_builders_08-1_update_arrival_in_bangkok_827","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/archive\/5063","title":{"rendered":"Japan Hope Builders 08-1 Update: Arrival in Bangkok! (8\/27)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok, August 27<br \/>\nThe 17 members of the Japan Hope Builders Team have arrived safely in Bangkok! Among the members who gathered from all over Japan, some came by overnight bus to Narita Airport in Tokyo, while others spent the night at internet cafes or restaurants in order to make the early morning meeting time.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"welcome%20party.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.habitatjp.org\/jpblog\/welcome%20party.JPG\" width=\"215\" height=\"161\" \/align=right> After resting up at the hotel in Bangkok, we spent the evening at the night bazaar. At the welcome dinner which included members of the Habitat Thailand staff, everyone introduced themselves and explained why they chose to participate in this program.<br \/>\nThe majority of this team is made up people participating individually, and so the meeting at Narita Airport was the first time the team got to see each other\u2019s faces. Although some seemed nervous at first, tomorrow\u2019s first day of work on the construction site will surely bring everyone together.<br \/>\nThe Voice of Participants<br \/>\nKoudai (Third year high school student, Osaka)<br \/>\nThe reason he decided to participate in this program was because his sister strongly encouraged him. Since he wanted to take part in a volunteer program during his summer vacation, he thought why not take part in a program abroad? And so he decided to apply to this program which was led by a tour guide. Although he is the only high school student, he is very friendly and got to know everyone in no time.<br \/>\nTomoya (Third year college student, Shizuoka)<br \/>\nThis trip is Tomoya\u2019s first time abroad. In order to make it to the early morning meeting, he took an overnight bus to Shinjuku and spent the night in an internet caf\u00e9 in the city.<br \/>\nOriginally, he had intended to travel to Thailand by himself to view the work of an NGO he was interested in. When he heard about this program, he decided to apply because he wanted to \u201cactively get out there and move his body rather than just observe\u201d and because he was moved by Habitat\u2019s motto of \u2018not simply giving a house, but working together as equal partners to build the house.\u201d He was not worried about taking part as an individual participant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bangkok, August 27 The 17 members of the Japan Hope Builders Team have arrived safely in Bangkok! Among the me [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,48,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activity-reports","category-overseas","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}