{"id":622,"date":"2017-01-17T14:04:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T22:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/threelinks.com\/?p=622"},"modified":"2018-06-26T15:15:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T23:15:43","slug":"a-sense-of-home-volunteer-karen-shares-stories-of-a-life-in-brazil-with-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/a-sense-of-home-volunteer-karen-shares-stories-of-a-life-in-brazil-with-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"A sense of home: volunteer Karen shares stories of a life in Brazil with residents"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Volunteer Karen Goncalves da Fonseca has found a sense of home at Three Links. When she was a teenager, Karen lived with her grandmother in Sao Paolo, Brazil. She has such fond memories of those days that, when she moved to Vancouver, she started looking for a seniors\u2019 program to volunteer with. She landed at Three Links Manor leading the Wednesday evening bingo program for a group of enthusiastic residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel very comfortable here,\u201d says Karen, \u201cthe seniors are always curious about Brazil and I like it when they ask me questions. I feel like I\u2019m doing something worthwhile and it\u2019s a good opportunity to practice my English.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now that she\u2019s settled into life in Vancouver, Karen is studying construction estimating at BCIT. She was a Civil Engineer in Brazil and dreams of restarting her career in Vancouver and settling here permanently. She likes that it\u2019s safe to walk around at night in Vancouver and that people are not squished like sardines on the city buses.<\/p>\n

During her summer break from classes, Karen offered to lend a hand at Three Links Care Centre to bake cookies and chat with the residents. Over afternoon tea, the residents ask her about Brazil, her family, and what she thinks of life in Canada. Of all the places she\u2019s visited in the world, Karen says that Vancouver is the one place that has captured her heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Volunteer Karen Goncalves da Fonseca has found a sense of home at Three Links. When she was a teenager, Karen lived with her grandmother in Sao Paolo, Brazil. She has such fond memories of those days that, when she moved to Vancouver, she started looking for a seniors\u2019 program to volunteer with. She landed at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}