{"id":150,"date":"2009-06-12T22:10:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T22:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/?p=150"},"modified":"2012-01-31T23:10:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T23:10:16","slug":"more-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"More Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-150 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc_0595.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc_0595-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc_0603.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc_0603-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc_0609.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc_0609-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I&#8217;m exhausted, but decided to walk up to the lodge to get an Internet connection so I could share some of the wonderful pictures and events.\u00a0 We started the morning with a brief stop to a small school class room where the kids were just 2 and 3 years old.\u00a0 We had spent 2 hrs with the older kids from the school, and they wanted us to return to spend some time with the younger kids.\u00a0 Once again, it was just a joyful time.\u00a0 We colored pictures with them, sang songs, giggled, and told stories.\u00a0\u00a0 The pictures help tell the story\u2026 the kids really are that cute! See pictures below.\u00a0 Of course, from the pictures, you would think the kids are living in Siberia.\u00a0 While the evenings are chilly here at about 3000ft altitude in the winter, the daytime is hot.\u00a0 Nevertheless, the kids here are completely bundled up, some with knit gloves.\u00a0 Just like I can&#8217;t imagine surviving the heat of the Kalahari Desert, just a few miles south of here, the Botswanians can&#8217;t fathom the snow.<\/p>\n<p>The kids did not suffer from HIV\/AID.\u00a0 They were happy and excited to spend time with us.\u00a0 Our job, to just spend some time with them and tell stories and sing songs and draw pictures was really relatively easy.\u00a0 However the next school challenged me (see post below)<\/p>\n<p>-Pete<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m exhausted, but decided to walk up to the lodge to get an Internet connection so I could share some of the wonderful pictures and events.\u00a0 We started the morning with a brief stop to a small school class room where the kids were just 2 and 3 years old.\u00a0 We had spent 2 hrs &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/?p=150\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Fun<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/botswana\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}