{"id":3229,"date":"2017-09-02T14:05:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T14:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2017-09-02T14:05:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T14:05:51","slug":"au-pair-volunteers-with-turtles-on-long-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/2017\/09\/02\/au-pair-volunteers-with-turtles-on-long-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Au Pair Volunteers with Turtles on Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/Flora-turtle-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3230\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/Flora-turtle-1-1024x516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/Flora-turtle-1-1024x516.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/Flora-turtle-1-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/Flora-turtle-1-768x387.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/Flora-turtle-1-624x315.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/Flora-turtle-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3231\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/Flora-turtle-3-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/Flora-turtle-3-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/Flora-turtle-3-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/Flora-turtle-3-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/Flora-turtle-3-624x780.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><span id=\"MainContent_lblName\">Flora Solorzano Zamora<\/span>\u00a0from Costa Rica has spent the past year with a host family in Setauket.\u00a0 Au Pair in America has been a great experience for her.\u00a0 She is looking forward to her travel month and exploring more of the USA before she returns home in October to continue her studies in Costa Rica to become a pharmacist.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/Flora-turtle-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3232\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/Flora-turtle-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/Flora-turtle-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3233\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/Flora-turtle-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/flora-turtle-4-1.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/flora-turtle-4-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3238 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/flora-turtle-4-1-e1504361042146-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Flora volunteered during some of her free time in a study of turtles in the ponds near her host family&#8217;s town.\u00a0\u00a0 Flora said, &#8221; I really enjoyed doing the turtles this year! I am happy I had this experience.<br \/>\nThis project was about looking for turtles around the beach, weight and measure them to find out if they lay or not. We followed them until they lay their eggs\u00a0and then we protected the nests from predators. After days we get to see the baby turtles hatching and we also release the ones we rescued.<br \/>\nIt is awesome to have the opportunity of follow all the process!&#8221;<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">For more information on this project, please check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flaxpondfriends.org\/volunteer.html\">Friends of Flax Pond<\/a><\/span>.<\/h3>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Flora earned a Volunteer Certificate from Au Pair in America for her work with the turtles.\u00a0 She also earned a completion of her education certificate and will get a certificate for the Au Pair in America program when she returns home to Costa Rica.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/20170828_133505_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3236 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/20170828_133505_resized-e1504360880443-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/20170828_133505_resized-e1504360880443-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/20170828_133505_resized-e1504360880443-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/20170828_133505_resized-e1504360880443-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/20170828_133505_resized-e1504360880443-624x1109.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/20170828_133505_resized-e1504360880443.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/Flora-turtle-1.jpg\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/09\/Flora-turtle-3.jpg\"><\/a>Flora Solorzano Zamora\u00a0from Costa Rica has spent the past year with a host family in Setauket.\u00a0 Au Pair in America has been a great experience for her.\u00a0 She is looking forward to her travel month and exploring more of the USA before she returns home in October to continue her studies in  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/2017\/09\/02\/au-pair-volunteers-with-turtles-on-long-island\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[610,161,608,300,466,469,609],"class_list":["post-3229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-things-we-do","category-uncategorized","tag-au-pair-volunteers","tag-cultural-childcare-suffolk-county","tag-friends-of-flax-pond","tag-live-in-childcare-long-island","tag-suffolk-county-au-pairs","tag-suffolk-county-childcare","tag-three-village-au-pairs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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