{"id":4777,"date":"2019-07-10T11:10:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/?p=4777"},"modified":"2019-07-10T11:10:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:10:59","slug":"teaching-in-burma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/2019\/07\/10\/teaching-in-burma\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching in Burma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Britane Hubbard<\/p>\n<p>Studying abroad expands your horizons. Exposure to different people, cultures and ideas helps develop a better understanding of views different than our own.<\/p>\n<p>My trip consisted of teaching university law students clinical-education English for two weeks in Taunggyi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Myanmar\">Myanmar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On our last day of teaching classes, some of the students took us on a tour of the city markets. We went to a store that sold traditional Burmese dress. They explained to us the different outfits for<br \/>\ndifferent occasions.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, one of the students picked up a formal hat and placed it on my head. All of the students loved it. They appreciated that I had showed an interest in their culture and enjoyed seeing me wear a piece of traditional clothing. It was a very sweet gesture, and their enthusiasm to share their culture with us was very meaningful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Britane Hubbard Studying abroad expands your horizons. Exposure to different people, cultures and ideas helps develop a better understanding of views different than our own. My trip consisted of teaching university law students clinical-education English for two weeks in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[204],"tags":[772,771,774,773],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4778,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions\/4778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}