{"id":8647,"date":"2018-09-06T09:06:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T07:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/?p=8647"},"modified":"2018-09-26T11:43:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T09:43:27","slug":"au-revoir-antoine-and-mai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/au-revoir-antoine-and-mai\/","title":{"rendered":"Au Revoir Antoine and Mai"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Our Rays of Sunshine Return Home<\/h1>\n<p>We sadly had to say <strong>goodbye<\/strong> to our two lovely <strong>volunteers<\/strong>, <strong>Antoine<\/strong> and <strong>Mai<\/strong>. Both of them have been\u00a0a massive help here at La Giraudiere.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, we have <strong>Antoine<\/strong> from France who was here for\u00a03 weeks. This bubbly character always kept us entertained, from dancing at dinner to his little book which he religiously wrote his new English words into. He was a great asset with constructing our new balconies and with any labour intensive job. He always had a smile on his face which in turn made the atmosphere that bit <strong>happier<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Antoine<\/strong> thouroughly enjoyed all the trips we went on, especially when we went to the beach at Royan. However, his favourite activity was much closer to LG, as he loved going down to the lake with Janet (a.k.a Auntie Janet) to swim and play in the water. We miss you already <strong>Antoine<\/strong> and we wish you all the best for the future.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8771\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/065.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8771\" class=\"wp-image-8771 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/065-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"French Volunteer\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/065-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/065-60x40.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/065-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/065-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/065.jpg 1709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">French-volunteer-Antoine<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We also say goodbye to <strong>Mai<\/strong>, an English teacher from China. Despite being here for only 1 week, she was very helpful in our office. She translated many of the pages of our website into <strong>Chinese<\/strong> so that more <strong>Chinese<\/strong> volunteers have the opportunity to come to LG. She was very committed and even used part of her day off to complete the project.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8699\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/chinese_volunteer-mei_bigiong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8699\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8699\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/chinese_volunteer-mei_bigiong-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese volunteer\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/chinese_volunteer-mei_bigiong-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/chinese_volunteer-mei_bigiong-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/chinese_volunteer-mei_bigiong-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/chinese_volunteer-mei_bigiong.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mei Bigiong &#8211; Chinese Volunters<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One thing <strong>Mai<\/strong> loved doing was taking pictures!! As she was keen to show her husband all of her travels, she would happily sit looking out the window on our drives and just take as many pictures as possible. Her favourite trip was to the concert and market at Barbezeuix and is very keen to come back next year. We would love to have you back and thanks again for all your help.<\/p>\n<p>Bon voyage <strong>Antoine<\/strong> and <strong>Mai<\/strong> and we would love to have you back <strong>volunteering<\/strong> with us next year!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Rays of Sunshine Return Home We sadly had to say goodbye to our two lovely volunteers, Antoine and Mai. Both of them have been\u00a0a massive help here at La Giraudiere. Firstly, we have Antoine from France who was here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/au-revoir-antoine-and-mai\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,355,673,671,349,255,115,311,103,583],"tags":[17,779,781,773,777,775,159,733],"class_list":["post-8647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-event","category-france","category-france-china-alliance","category-franco-chine","category-french-markets","category-learn-english","category-students","category-volunteer","category-volunteering","category-website","tag-brossac","tag-fqrewell","tag-goodby","tag-mai","tag-pictures","tag-royan","tag-volunteer-in-france","tag-voluntourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8647"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8775,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647\/revisions\/8775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}