{"id":2306,"date":"2014-05-02T23:11:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T03:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calla2.com\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2026-03-22T21:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:07:23","slug":"lunch-with-marisa-and-nette-then-on-to-st-vincent-de-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/lunch-with-marisa-and-nette-then-on-to-st-vincent-de-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch with Marisa and Nette — then on to St Vincent de Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lunch\"<\/a>After presenting to two FABULOUS groups of OLOL students, Marisa guided me to a lovely restaurant that was between her school in Delaware, and Nette Timmermans’ St Vincent de Paul in Strathroy. Nette had just arrived, and secured a booth…After a tasty lunch (Marisa’s fries were particularly tempting) I followed Nette to her school.<\/p>\n

And here’s what welcomed me upon my arrival:<\/p>\n

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St. Vincent de Paul has a beautifully big and functional library and her students had decorated it with a lot of artwork from lessons about my books. Here is a picture of a giant suitcase display, with students’ thoughts on what Tuyet would pack to come to Canada.<\/p>\n

\"avidreaders\"<\/a>Here are some avid readers from St Vincent de Paul.<\/p>\n

\"teacher\"<\/a>And an avid reader teacher!<\/p>\n

\"awardwinner\"<\/a>The young woman on the left, with me and Nette, is about to have her first piece of writing published!<\/p>\n

\"nette\"<\/a>Me and Nette.<\/p>\n

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\"display\"<\/a>More fabulous work from SVDP students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After presenting to two FABULOUS groups of OLOL students, Marisa guided me to a lovely restaurant that was between her school in Delaware, and Nette Timmermans’ St Vincent de Paul in Strathroy. Nette had just arrived, and secured a booth…After a tasty lunch (Marisa’s fries were particularly tempting) I followed Nette to her school. And … Continue reading “Lunch with Marisa and Nette — then on to St Vincent de Paul”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,262,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-news-stories","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10693,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions\/10693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}