2022-07-13

Angoulême, Paris, Tokyo, Himeji, Aboshi

It will be a so long journey...
Angoulême, Paris...train
To go to the embassy metro, bus
getting our passeports and some visas...
Then going to Roissy, sleeping...airplane
Then Wien, and a stop...airplane
Then Narita, train
and Tokyo, train
and Himeji, car
and Aboshi !!!


















 

2022-07-08

Mushrooms


Because it's already hot
there are plenty of
delicious mushrooms
in the forest !


Didi took us 
and we could find some !!!


 

2022-07-07

Gérard and Josiane


Gérard and Josiane
came to Didi and Dada's house
to say hello to Grammy !!


 

2022-07-06

At Grammy's place


With Didi and Amané 
we moved all the stuff
we could..


In the evening,
we ate a barbecue at Didi and Dada's house !

 

2022-07-01

Grammy



Almost every day we go to see Grammy 
at Sabine's or at Dada's, 
to try to change her mind.
We have planned to move his house 
as much as possible, 
so that the workers 
can come and fix everything quickly.


 

2022-06-29

Last ping pong training

It was the last ping-pong

 practice at the club for Amané.

We took the opportunity

 to say bye bye to Noam, 9, 

who will join the "espoir pole".

Good luck Noam!!!



 

2022-06-25

Good bye Didier



We attended Didier's retirement party 
with about thirty people.
On the menu there was 
a spit-roasted wild boar!
But on returning home, bad surprise: 
our house got robbed.......


 

2022-06-21

99 years old


On the night of his 99th birthday, 
Grammy saw his house destroyed by a hailstorm.
Sabine and Roger went in the night to look for her.
She had mopped her floor in the dark.
They caught her to their house.
All the little city of Ribérac is damaged.

Claire and Sabine are already calling the insurance 
and the artisans who can help.

I think Grammy doesn't realize yet,
how big are the damages.

We went there with Didi, Dada, 
Yuta and Amané
to put some tarpaulin
on the furnitures.


 

2022-06-16

Honoured


Today in her junior high school,
 Amané received a lot of awards:
-first of the class,
-first in the ping-pong competition,
-first of college and department in English
-first in the competition about nature.

The junior high offered her many gifts, 
she went on the stage
 and she was applauded by all the people of her junior high !

Bravo Doudou, tu le mérites !!!!

 

2022-06-13

Big Challenge


Amané get the first place of the department
for the concourse Big Challenge in English !!

Bravo Doudou !!!

 

2022-06-11

Mamie de la forêt's house

 We went to Mamie de la Forêt's house.

Amané found some old books

and wanted to keep them all...!

We went to the Moulin,

in order Nadine could tell

if those books were sane.

They were all ok !!


I also took a little bench.





2022-06-10

Farideh

 Helping Farideh

to move some big stuff 

to her place.



She'll go back to Iran for all summer
and coming back this autumn.


2022-06-07

Preparing trip to Japan

Because of Covid,
international rules changed.

I needed to go to Paris,
to the Japan Embassy
to get a Japanese spouse visa.

Before we didn't need that...

I'll have to come back soon
to get back my passeport.

This little trip allowed me to
share a little time
 with Nico and Vincent.

Nico is an other member 
of Eric's family.



 

2022-06-04

Grammy 99 years old

In 20 days, she'll celebrate
her 99th birthday!!!!!

We spent all day
with her,
even going to restaurant !


She's still dynamic
and has so much to share !


 

2022-06-03

2nd place for regional English contest


Amané tried an English competition: 
she came 2nd in the region! 
Well done Doudou! 
We are too proud!


 

2022-05-26

school trip

Amané and his class went
 to visit the site Bouchauds.
It is an archaeological site 
with a Gallo Roman
 theater and temples
 very close to Angoulême.

Some years before we went already there.

Try to find Amané in the photos!
























she will have other school outings
 by the end of June: 
a cinema outing, 
another theater
 and a huge day at Puy du Fou
























 

2022-05-24

Bye bye to one of our best friend, ERIC.

This day was awful...

And the days after were so hard too.
2 weeks and a half after, 
emotions are still so strong:
crying and trying to do as usual,
always thinking of him
and what he had left in each of us.

One of our best friends left us suddenly.

He was a poet, dancer, actor, musician, 
composer, manager, sculptor, mason, 
gardener, draftsman, writer etc etc...
He loved parties, wood fires, 
building with others,
 he was always looking for others.

We have often experienced
 the most intense moments 
of our lives thanks to him.

The memories are endless.

And most of all, 
he was the pillar 
of an immense family 
of strong friendship. 

He succeeded to reveal 
beautiful parts of each one of us.
He was whole and
 allowed us to become so.

He taught us fraternity, 
sharing strong emotions, 
sharing true and beautiful
 human values. 

He united us in creation, 
he taught us freedom,
 to believe in our dreams, 
to believe in ourselves.

He brought us all together 
around his utopia 
which still vibrates in each of us.



We are now all orphans
 but we vibrate even more intensely 
with love and tenderness.

We (his huge family) are all connected more than ever, 
whole and wonderful.
In the past, in the present and the future.



We'll miss him so much.

Our love and gratitude 
for Eric will never fade.

Thank you so so so much Eric.