by Arnaud | Oct 19, 2014 | French in the USA, People Pics
” It is very easy to be a French in the USA here in San Francisco. SF is a city where you can live with your differences. SF will feed itself of your difference, just like if each one of us were a piece of that puzzle that is San Francisco; without you, without me, SF is not a completed puzzle, made of different colors and shapes; the puzzle would be incomplete; there is very little reject here in San Francisco, and politically the extremes do not survive long. I came to the USA at 24 for a two weeks’s trip, I was organizing concerts in France and wanted to see how different was SF. I never returned home; I worked as a maid, then I met an amazing couple who landed me a car and a house for one year, I then started a new Franco-American school in Sunnyvale with $100 000 people who trusted me gave me, and I hired four motivated teachers from France; Valerie became my wife 8 months after her arrival. I then started a company in the apartment rental business in Paris, allowing me to spend my time taking care of the kids, travelling all around the world to try to give a bit of that generosity, tolerance, and energy I received all these past 28 years in San Francisco”.
Just like the clowns, Claude does not want to be seen as a too serious person, and as every year, he is preparing his Halloween costume, for the little boy he probably still is
by Arnaud | Oct 15, 2014 | People Pics
“No I do not play with my remote control car. I get paid by companies to scare geese and make them go away from their parks, their lawns and ponds; I am Eric and I like to start my car to the geese and see them fly away; the lawns stay clean. And yes this is my full time job”
Eric, CA
by Arnaud | Oct 14, 2014 | French in the USA, People Pics
Why did you decide to come to the USA? ” I met that California girl who was coming to learn French in Besancon who was coming to learn french; I was finishing my studies and my career was to be in the Franco-German business, quite boring. We fell in love, two weeks later I discovered that girl’s town, Sausalito, I fell in love a second time in Love and I decided that my life would not be in Europe but in California; we got married in Mill Valley, we started a dental business, our twins were born two years later; this was far from what my destiny was supposed to be between France and Germany…” “Do you miss Europe?” “I miss buying comics in Brussels, I miss the little french cafes”
Fabian is now a talented photographer
by Arnaud | Oct 13, 2014 | Folsom Street Fair, People Pics
“if you see your banker or a co-worker at Folsom, do not look surprised; Folsom is about tolerance and respect ; are we all not free to be dressed like we feel is the most comfortable?”
@ Folsom – SF
by Arnaud | Oct 12, 2014 | Burning Man, People Pics
In the middle of the Playa in the Black Rock Desert, it was 7 am when I saw these three guys obviously starting their night, after a long evening….they looked like marble statues
@ Burning Man
by Arnaud | Oct 10, 2014 | People Pics
The old man accepted I take a picture of him but he never looked into my direction nor was he surprised when other burners were asking for a picture of him. He seemed to be a long time burner, concentrated on what he was watching, not sure what.
@ Burning Man
