{"id":16197,"date":"2017-03-10T10:31:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T16:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenheartclub.staging.wpengine.com\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2018-09-13T19:34:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T00:34:32","slug":"meet-our-holiday-photo-contest-winner-mirasol-pilar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/blog\/exchange\/meet-our-holiday-photo-contest-winner-mirasol-pilar\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet our Holiday Photo Contest winner: Mirasol Pilar"},"content":{"rendered":"

We took some time to catch up with Mirasol Pilar,\u00a0a winner of the 2016 Greenheart Holiday Volunteer Photo Contest. Mirasol is a 20-year-old\u00a0native of the Philippines and a past participant of Greenheart Work and Travel<\/a>. She is currently a part of our J-1 Intern & Trainee Career Advancement Program<\/a>. Read below as she shares about volunteering, culture and exchange.<\/p>\n

On volunteering…<\/span>
\n<\/strong>“I learned how to give back to others the things that I am blessed with. My worldview expanded and I was amazed by this unique space.”<\/p>\n

On Filipino and American culture…<\/span>
\n<\/strong>\u201cI think one of the strongest similarities between the Filipino and American culture is a sense of appreciation for the people that you love. You would do anything to make that person feel extra special and happy.\u201d
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\n<\/a>On the exchange experience and becoming a stronger person…<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u201cMy advice to other exchange students would be to prepare for the upcoming challenges. Face them. Be brave and be bold. Most importantly, have fun with this world-class experience. One of my challenges was being far from my family, a thousand miles away. This only made me stronger and I welcomed new challenges and new things. I\u2019m working at a Ski Resort right now so I opened myself up to trying to ski and snowboard.”<\/p>\n

On the Greenheart family…<\/span>
\n<\/strong>\u201cWelcoming new friends through exchange makes my heart so overwhelmed. We become like a family in our hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

What does being a part of the Greenheart family mean to you? Share your Standout Story<\/a> with us today!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We took some time to catch up with Mirasol Pilar,\u00a0a winner of the 2016 Greenheart Holiday Volunteer Photo Contest. Mirasol is a 20-year-old\u00a0native of the Philippines and <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3890,"featured_media":16248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[219,220,53,221,222,223,224],"class_list":["post-16197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exchange","tag-219","tag-contest","tag-cultural-exchange","tag-holiday-photo-contest-winner","tag-mirasol-pilar","tag-winner","tag-work-and-travel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/3890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/16248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}