{"id":304,"date":"2009-05-20T09:27:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T13:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/blog\/crosscultural\/?p=304"},"modified":"2009-05-20T09:27:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T13:27:29","slug":"week-2-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/2009\/05\/20\/week-2-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our second week in Nigeria started with a tour of Vom Hospital and a relaxing swim at HBC resort.\u00a0 We&#8217;re beginning to submerge ourselves deeper within the culture as we learned about the conflicts within Nigeria and the peace building efforts of Gopar Tapkida.\u00a0 We also volunteered the morning at Faith Alive Clinic where nursing and accounting students stayed within the hospital to work while others went to the village school that Faith Alive started.\u00a0 We have also been creating relationships and connections with the students at UniJos and learning about ministries such as Ayuba&#8217;s wheelchair shop for those with polio.\u00a0 We are now relaxing for the weekend in Miango, catching up on sleep and getting a taste of American food before beginning our last week here with trips to Otukpo, more interaction with UniJos and saying our goodbyes before heading back to the states!\u00a0 We are continuing to learn so much and can&#8217;t wait to share all of our lessons and stories once we get home.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0-Becca Snyder and Ashleigh Tolliver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our second week in Nigeria started with a tour of Vom Hospital and a relaxing swim at HBC resort.\u00a0 We&#8217;re beginning to submerge ourselves deeper within the culture as we learned about the conflicts within Nigeria and the peace building efforts of Gopar Tapkida.\u00a0 We also volunteered the morning at Faith Alive Clinic where nursing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/2009\/05\/20\/week-2-in-nigeria\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Week 2 in Nigeria<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nigeria-summer-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}