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Me

  • I was born in La Roche Sur Yon (Vendée) and spent all my childhood in Maché, a very small town in Vendée (near the west coast of France). I moved to Nantes in 1996 to start studying English linguistics, literature and civilization (LLCE). Thanks to these studies, I spent one year (1999) in Aberdare (Wales) as a French Language Assistant in a Grammar School. This is only when I came back to Nantes that I started studying linguistics more intensively.
  • What/who I love...
    -Nadia (see below).
    -sports: tennis (current member of Winston Churchill Tennis Club in Toronto), squash, running, hiking, snowboarding.
    -music & concerts: eels, archive, air, coldplay, muse, stereophonics (souvenir from Wales), the shins, bénabar, cali...
    -traditional food with a good red wine.

    -open-minded people.
    -Canada (click here for some pictures).
    ...
  • What/who I hate...
    -to notice that the rich earn more and more, and the poor less and less, and that, very often, only the rich can do something to change that.
    -people only obsessed by the idea of convincing you.
    -the lack of bicycle lanes in Toronto, and TTC bus drivers trying to kill you when you're riding.
    -the lack of bicycle lanes in Nantes, and TAN or Lila bus drivers trying to kill you when you're riding.
    ...
     

 

    Nadia

  • Nadia is obviously the person who I live with. She is from Vendée as well. We met at the lycée. She is currently working as physiotherapist in Nantes.
  • What/who she loves...
    -me (I hope so!).
    -sports: tennis (
    current member of Winston Churchill Tennis Club in Toronto), kickboxing, hiking, squash.
    -mostly french music: bénabar, cali, ridan, goldman, rose, aaron, but also hawksley workman, daniel powter...
    -our cat, Noa (see below).
    -any kind of soup.
    -Canada.
    ...
  • What/who she hates...
    -the Canadian Alliance of Physiotherapy Regulators (waited for 6 months to be told that her French diploma is not equivalent to the Canadian one because it is not academic... like any diploma of physiotherapy in France).
    -spiders.
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    Noa

  • Noa is a male cat. He was supposed to be a female, but "life is like a chocolate box: you never know what you're gonna get".
  • What he loves...
    -drinking water directly from the tap.
    -sleeping (it seems).
    -eating plants.
    -chatting with his racoons friends.
    ...
  • What he hates...
    -traveling by car.

    -the vacuum cleaner.
    -when a door is closed.
    -when the ball he is playing with goes under the sofa.
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