Fontenay Pictures

 

This is where the story begins in januari 1998................

 

How did I end up in Fontenay you might be asking yourself. Well there is one simple explanation. I was doing an internship in town near Paris. So I wanted to live as close to Paris as possible. I ended finding a residence in Fontenay. I arrived at the end of january and left somewhere in july. The pictures underneath here tell parts of the story.

BBQ at the home

This first picture is of a BBQ we organized somewhere around May. Nice warm wheater and DJ Perry was sticking on some groovy tunes to go with a great dinner and lots of fun...........

Relaxing in the sun

Second picture of the BBQ. This is ud relaxing, sitting in the sun to get a nice tan and drinking a couple of beers. We would play a couple of games of table tennis and enjoy the great wheater. "Summer summer summer time......."

Saint-Louis living room

This is a picture taken during the visit of my brother and friends somewhere in April. We went out that whole weekend and got really hammered! This photo was taken during the birthday of a greek fellow resident called Dimitrios.

Saint-Louis living room

Another photo of that evening but then with Laura who also lived at the fontenay residence but in another house. She and Dimitrios were close friends and visited lots of museums and operas.

Dall living Room; Christhophe, Robin, Dolores

Now for some photos of other residents from other houses. This photo contains one of my room mates, Robin. He arrived at the same time as me and we shared rooms together for some time. He left after a couple of week to return to the UK. Next him are Dolores and Christophe.

Dall Living room; José Antonio, Assieres,Angel .......

This is the Spanish clan from Fontenay. Some of the guys used go and play football with us on a pitch near 'Bois de Vincennes'. They also provided excellent 'sangria' for our parties!

Dall living room; Yvonne, Milena and Ulf

Yvonne, Milena and Ulf. Ulf was really something. He was always in for a party and did not study to much, I suppose. Most of the time he was fooling around and drinking beer with a good friend of his, we all well know as Nicolas! They were known as the 'food' thiefs of Fontenay.

Dall living room; Miko, Alex, Philip

Another room mate of mine on this photo. Miko and I shared a room for a couple of weeks before he returned to Finland. He worked in a hotel somewhere in Paris. Nice guy but I did not get to know him that well. He left me a nice coat though. One with big pockets and a capuchon. I used it to go out with. I looked like a clochard wearing it. I would put bottles of liqor in my pockets so we could have a drink on our way to the pub!! As where Philip used his little tandplax bottle to carry some very good whisky with him!

Dall living room: Massimiliano, and José Antonio

Massimiliano the womeniser and José again. As I remember they used to play backgammon together. They were competing eachother. Max also used to go out and play football with us. He was a good striker. After a couple of months he moved to Cité Universitiare in the south of Paris. He kept attending our parties and we had good fun and interesting conversations!

Dall living room; Wouter and David

Me and david. another resident and 'football' player. I don't know what he was actually doing there. Actually I don't know zilch about him. He was nice, well at least to me he was.

Dall living room; Wouter and Giovanni

Giovanni a real Itallian guy from Milan. He helped us out big time with the BBQ by getting a BBQ from the guards of the residence!

Saint Louis livinr room; Ulf and Wouter

Ulf eating whipped cream.........Ulf returned to Germany somewhere in April. But he came back to visit us in june. He stayed over for a couple of days and we went out all together. Just like the 'old' days........

There's more on the next page..............