{"id":568,"date":"2013-12-11T13:01:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T17:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/?p=568"},"modified":"2013-12-11T13:04:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T17:04:51","slug":"william-kamkwamba-at-williston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/2013\/12\/11\/william-kamkwamba-at-williston\/","title":{"rendered":"William Kamkwamba at Williston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: William Kamkwamba is the co-author of <\/em>The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind<em>, which is based on his life in Malawi. He visited the Williston Northampton School on December 5, 2013 as part of the annual Sara Wattles Perry &#8217;77 speaker series. The following is an except from his question and answer session where he spoke about traveling to the United States and seeing snow for the first time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0I4sb5k00no\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What was it like the first time I saw snow? It was exciting because it was the first time, but at the same time it was also challenging because it was so cold. The funny thing, the funny part, was that before I came here&#8230; My first visit, I was told it would be cold. So I was like, \u201cOkay, it will be cold.\u201d In Malawi, it gets cold and I can wear a tee shirt and put a long sleeved shirt on top of my tee shirt. Then I\u2019ll be okay. I\u2019ll be fine. That\u2019s what exactly I did when I was coming here. I put up my tee shirt and then put up my long sleeve on top of it and I was inside the airport. When I came off the plane, inside the airport it was so warm. I was like, \u201cThese people are just joking. It\u2019s not cold at all!\u201d I didn\u2019t know it was heated during the day inside the house, inside the airport. Because in Malawi when it\u2019s cold outside, it\u2019s also cold inside.\u00a0 So I had that idea. I was like, \u201cThis is not cold at all.\u201d It was like hot outside. And then I got outside\u2026 I was like, \u201cHow did you guys manage to be in this area!\u201d That was challenging. So it was interesting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/blog\/a-boy-a-textbook-and-his-drought-stricken-country\/\">Read the full article on his visit here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: William Kamkwamba is the co-author of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, which is based on his life in Malawi. He visited the Williston Northampton School on December 5, 2013 as part of the annual Sara Wattles Perry &#8217;77 speaker series. The following is an except from his question and answer session where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/2013\/12\/11\/william-kamkwamba-at-williston\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">William Kamkwamba at Williston<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[53,4],"tags":[184,186,185],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-13-assembies","category-visiting-speaker","tag-sara-wattles-perry-77","tag-the-boy-who-harnessed-the-wind","tag-william-kamkwamba"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}