{"id":1189,"date":"2010-10-10T08:01:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T12:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2010-10-10T08:01:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T12:01:54","slug":"fantastic-day-at-international-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/2010\/10\/10\/fantastic-day-at-international-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Day at International Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We participated in the City of Bowie International Festival at Allen Pond Park on Saturday, October 2, 2010.\u00a0 We had beautiful weather, fabulously talented au pairs and lots of eager children ready to try our activities.\u00a0 Some of our activities were: painting flags on the children&#8217;s hands, creating beaded bracelets,\u00a0 doing geography games and showing people how to write their names in Thai.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some photos.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t get pictures of everyone who helped at the event.\u00a0 We had a very busy time with lots of kids coming through and I wasn&#8217;t able to get photos of some of the volunteers in the middle of the day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/gi90.photobucket.com\/groups\/k241\/HRK5K1A3T2\/DSC03647.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/gi90.photobucket.com\/groups\/k241\/HRK5K1A3T2\/DSC03648.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/gi90.photobucket.com\/groups\/k241\/HRK5K1A3T2\/DSC03649.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/gi90.photobucket.com\/groups\/k241\/HRK5K1A3T2\/DSC03651.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/gi90.photobucket.com\/groups\/k241\/HRK5K1A3T2\/DSC03653.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/gi90.photobucket.com\/groups\/k241\/HRK5K1A3T2\/DSC03654.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/gi90.photobucket.com\/groups\/k241\/HRK5K1A3T2\/DSC03658.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We participated in the City of Bowie International Festival at Allen Pond Park on Saturday, October 2, 2010.\u00a0 We had beautiful weather, fabulously talented au pairs and lots of eager children ready to try our activities.\u00a0 Some of our activities were: painting flags on the children&#8217;s hands, creating beaded bracelets,\u00a0 doing geography games and showing  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/2010\/10\/10\/fantastic-day-at-international-festival\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[54,207,254,259,513,576,936],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-things-we-do","tag-allen-pond","tag-city-of-bowie","tag-cultural","tag-culture-sharing","tag-international-festival","tag-maryland","tag-volunteer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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