Pics of 1997-1998
In this page,
there is some pics of
my first year in France,
between september 97 et july 98.
The arrival
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Pat had placed his bike and other stuff in a refrigerator box... look at the face of the girl at the counter... |
Student housing
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Here's the student housing where I've lived for my 2 years in France |
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Showing my French patriotism |
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After my 2 weeks trips, I let my beard grow... here's the result |
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Here's the bunch of people I was hanging out with on the 4th floor. there is Carine, François, Daniel, Christine, Pat, Justin.... |
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Nice sculpture done by Ben et Sylvain. it's called"L'éphémèrité de l'équilibre humain dans une société industrielle décadente". |
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Party at Phil's place. from left to right : Phil, Justin, Ben, Jeany, me, Magali, François and Pat. |
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Another party |
the EPF
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Sometimes, it snows in France... not much but enough to do a snowman at school. |
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Can you believe we have class in THAT?! |
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Administation building at school, we can see where the french place their priorities. |
Paris
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EPF Gala, in the middle, there is Justin, an american et on th eright it's Pat |
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21st of july, fête de la musique in Paris. From left to right: Sylvain (Québec), Elena (Bélarus), me, Gregory (France), Ben, Oscar (Spain) and Andrei (Bélarus). |
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Palais Royal columns. Note Sylvain on the back, take the same picture on the other way. |
First bike trip
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For a weekend, we went at Fontainebleau and Chartres, this is Fontainebleau castle |
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I had this on my bike, it had to dry. |
From Nice to Toulouse by bike
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We were leaving for a 2 weeks trip. We had bought bags to put out bikes in, it's a lot of stuff to carry |
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Nice's bay of angels |
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This is what I was looking like on my bike... notice the socks over the pants. |
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beautiful Antibes, between Nice and Cannes |
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the Esteral, a wonderful mountain range near Cannes |
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the col du pas d'Ouillier, in the mouintains, near Marseilles. We've been climbing for 8Km but after that is was going down all the wayyyyyyy. J |
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Marseille's harbour. |
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La fontaine de Vaucluse is a fantastic place. |
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Sur le pont d'Avignon, on y danse, on y danse.... |
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No comments, well known |
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Tarascon castle, typical. |
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Les Baux de Provence. A lot of climbing but beautiful, did you know that the name Bauxite, from which aluminium is made, comes from that place |
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Le moulin de Daudet. You know, Mr Seguin's goat, it was written there |
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Carcassonne, a mediaval city southwest of France |
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there is 6 Montreal in France, we found one |
L'Auvergne
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I spent chrismast in Auverge, here's a view taken from suc d'eyme |