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Carte “Jeunes”

October 16, 2011
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October 1993, Annecy

I started my French lessons in Annecy on the 4th of October. I boarded with Madame and Monsieur Petit in Seynod, just outside Annecy.  They were an amazing couple.  Raymond had asked his wife Rolande to marry him when they were reasonably young, then took 12 years to agree to a wedding date.  By the time they were married it was too late for them to have their own children, so they started fostering.  They had raised over twenty kids, some from babies. All had grown up by the time I arrived. Needless to say they had plenty of room to accommodate foreign guests.

This photo was taken at the train station on the day I was dropped there by the coach from London, while I waited to be collected by the Petits.

Getting Enrolled

October 14, 2011
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September 1993

Early September 1993, London

By the time this photo was taken I had decided to enrol to study French at the Institut Savoisien D’Études Français, a Department of the University of Savoy, in Annecy.  The institute was for foreigners to learn French and starts from the beginner level.  It was quite a surprise therefore, to find all the application forms and information about accommodation were solely written in French.  I was extremely grateful to Del Holbrook for her French language skills, as the project wouldn’t have moved passed the enquiry stage without her help. I had less than a month left in London before the course started.  I remember being very nervous as it was the first time I had gone anywhere on my own without the prospect of meeting up with friends on arrival.