{"id":4305,"date":"2016-12-04T21:58:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T21:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=4305"},"modified":"2016-12-04T22:05:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T22:05:58","slug":"visiting-international-school-of-helsinki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/visiting-international-school-of-helsinki\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting International School of Helsinki"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hel1\"Molly invited me to her place for some\u00a0Gl\u00f6gi on Sunday night so we could meet and chat about the presentations I’d be doing the next two days. <\/p>\n

Her place was an easy walk from my hotel and I was entranced by her elevator. It reminded me of the one they used to have in downtown Brantford at the old Right House.<\/p>\n

Gl\u00f6gi is hot spiced wine with dried fruit and nuts in it. Very tasty!<\/p>\n

The next morning, Molly met me at my hotel and we walked to school together. A very pleasant walk — the school was just a kilometer away.<\/p>\n

On the way up to Molly’s library, I admired the flags in the stairwell — one for each nationality of student at the school.<\/p>\n

There were posters and displays about my visit in various places. Here’s one from the library.<\/p>\n

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And here’s a selfie with Molly and me.<\/p>\n

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Most of the presentations took place in the Big Room.<\/p>\n

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The classes were small and so we were able to have nearly all of them with the students sitting on chairs at tables that had been arranged in a U shape. This facilitated the format, which was a presentation about how I became an author, and a bit about my books, followed by a writing workshop. The only exception was the storytelling for kindergartens, which was held in the library. I used a swirling chair and sat in the middle of them, presenting When Mama Goes to Work.<\/p>\n