{"id":2064,"date":"2021-06-15T04:11:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T02:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2021-06-15T04:12:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T02:12:43","slug":"proudly-south-african-christiaan-burger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/articles\/proudly-south-african-christiaan-burger\/","title":{"rendered":"Proudly South African &#8211; Christiaan Burger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is the first time that a South African candidate has received a scholarship from this prestigious college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"917\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021-2-1024x917.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021-2-1024x917.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021-2-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021-2-768x688.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021-2-600x538.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021-2.jpg 1085w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Christiaan is the youngest candidate that has ever been accepted out of more than 150 countries national committees to complete the UWC Japan. (1-year Pre-IB plus 2 years IB). A remarkable achievement! A truly prestigious moment in any young student&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>United World College (UWC)&nbsp;is &#8216;a worldwide network of Educational institutions with a joint mission to use educational bodies as a powerful tool to unite cultures for peace and a sustainable future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UWC ISAK Japan opened in 2014 and is referred to as the \u201cInternational School of Asia, Karuizawa (ISAK)&#8221; n. Japan has one of the smallest UWC&nbsp;schools, with approximately 200 students from across the world between the ages of 15 and 18 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are currently 18 UWC-schools and colleges worldwide with an international office in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our former president, Nelson Mandela,&nbsp;served as honorary-president of the UWC (1999\u20132013), as well as Lord Mountbatten and Prince Charles.&nbsp;The residing president of UWC is Queen of Noor of Jordan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"624\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021C.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021C.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021C-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021C-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021C-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021C-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021C-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021C-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021C-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Christiaan&nbsp;fills his parents Annemarie and Bemmie Burger\u2019s hearts with pride! He feels honoured, excited but also a bit nervous about what awaits him. He is looking forward to representing South Africa and his hometown Hartbeespoort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christiaan will travel to Japan to start his new adventure in August 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be sure to follow this remarkable young man on social media for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christiaan Burger, a grade 9 student from Hartbeespoort received the wonderful news that he has been chosen to complete a 3 year post graduate Baccalaureate diploma in Japan at the United World College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-schoolscharity"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021B-3-scaled.jpg",2560,2335,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021B-3-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021B-3-300x274.jpg",300,274,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021B-3-768x701.jpg",640,584,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021B-3-1024x934.jpg",640,584,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021B-3-1536x1401.jpg",1536,1401,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021B-3-2048x1868.jpg",2048,1868,true],"magazine-7-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021B-3-1536x1020.jpg",1536,1020,true],"magazine-7-slider-center":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021B-3-936x897.jpg",936,897,true],"magazine-7-featured":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021B-3-1024x934.jpg",1024,934,true],"magazine-7-medium":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021B-3-720x380.jpg",720,380,true],"magazine-7-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiaan-UWC2021B-3-675x450.jpg",675,450,true]},"author_info":{"info":["TheLife Team"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/category\/articles\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Articles &amp; Advertisers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/category\/articles\/schoolscharity\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Schools and Charity<\/a>","tag_info":"Schools and Charity","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2069,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions\/2069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}