{"id":4018,"date":"2014-11-02T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T16:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=4018"},"modified":"2021-08-16T10:42:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T04:57:37","slug":"the-ultimate-game-ultimate-frisbee-in-lilongwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/the-ultimate-game-ultimate-frisbee-in-lilongwe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Game: Ultimate Frisbee in Lilongwe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since leaving Nepal for the first time in 1988, in addition to pursuing further education and an international teaching career around the world, I also played Ultimate Frisbee!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started playing the sport at Grinnell College when I discovered that I could throw a mean forehand! Until I got into the sport, my favorite had been footbal (soccer), a sport I had grown up with and really enjoyed playing. But I injured my right ankle playing it, also at Grinnell. Unable to continue with it, I started playing Ultimate Frisbee considerably more and that became my sport of choice!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Playing the game in as diverse countries as the US, Malawi, Norway, <a title=\"The Ultimate Game: Ultimate Frisbee in Baku Aug 2009\" href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/the-ultimate-game-ultimate-frisbee-in-baku-aug-2009\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Azerbaijan<\/a>, United Kingdom, Vietnam, <a title=\"The Ultimate Game: Ultimate Frisbee (in Doha)\" href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/the-ultimate-game-ultimate-frisbee-in-doha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Qatar<\/a> and Nepal, I also met a diverse group of people and made a lot of friends too!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a glimpse into Ultimate Frisbee in Lilongwe, Malawi, in Southern Africa, where I <a title=\"Curriculum Vitae (Resum\u00e9)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/curriculum-vitae-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\">spent three years<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe title=\"The Ultimate Game: Ultimate Frisbee in Lilongwe, Malawi\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TYf3G8s9FhQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultimate Frisbee in Lilongwe, Malawi, a small but beautiful country in Southern Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[163],"tags":[184,159,144],"class_list":["post-4018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leisure-musings","tag-malawi","tag-ultimate-frisbee","tag-videos"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/discraft-2-resized.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Jbro-12O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}