{"id":2079,"date":"2011-10-07T03:35:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T03:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2011-10-07T03:35:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T03:35:17","slug":"study-trip-for-the-mechanics-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/study-trip-for-the-mechanics-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Study trip for the mechanics students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During August, 14 young men in training at the Peuan Mit mechanics garage in Vientiane, Lao PDR, went on a study trip to a large Kolao workshop. Kolao is a Korean brand of motorcycle extremely popular in Laos. They were accompanied by their teacher and the mechanics team leader.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the trip was for the students to understand how a very large garage works. The Peuan Mit workshop is small and mainly orientated towards training young students, so trips like these are very useful as it helps students understand how a company which is not a social business, with many employees and many clients, functions every day.<\/p>\n<p>After they graduate from the Peuan Mit garage the students can move on to a small mechanics workshop or to larger structures such as Kolao. Many choose to open their own small garage which does have risks, but also allows them more flexibility.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2078\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/moto_class.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2078\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2078\" title=\"PeuanMit mechanics \" src=\"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/moto_class-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"PeuanMit mechanics\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PeuanMit mechanic students at Kolao workshop<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The manager of the Kolao workshop explained about his garage to the very serious and attentive students, then two mechanics demonstrated the kind of work they do on motorbikes.<\/p>\n<p>The students spent over two hours at the garage, mostly learning about business management techniques and receiving a realistic impression of what it would be like to work in such an environment. Many of the students later said they hoped to get a job like this after graduation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During August, 14 young men in training at the Peuan Mit mechanics garage in Vientiane, Lao PDR, went on a study trip to a large Kolao workshop. Kolao is a Korean brand of motorcycle&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,9,8],"tags":[107,158,160,161,233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}