NEXT MEETING: June 14, 2004 AND EVERY SECOND TUESDAY OF THE MONTH, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
This is your opportunity to meet every month, often with local professionals who can answer your Working and Living in France questions. You are invited to come for drinks and share your questions and comments about what it takes to create a life here, own property and enjoy what France has to offer. It is also an opportunity to network with other Parler Paris readers.
Upstairs
at La Pierre du Marais
96, rue des Archives at the corner of rue de Bretagne, 75003 Paris
Métro Lines 9, 3 et 11, stations Temple, République or
Arts et Métiers
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12, 2005 |
MEETING
OF May 10, 2005
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It was a record-breaking afternoon for Après Midi -- La Pierre du Marais has never heard such a din coming from its upper level. We saw lots of familiar faces...such as Dale Gaber, Mark Kritz, Gar Westfall, Robert Larrea, Eric Tolbert, Anna Escomel and Patricia Laplante Collins (Paris Soirées). Mimi is back -- who we only knew as "M" until she let us know it stood for "Mimi!"
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Parler
Paris and French Property Insider staff, Yolanda Robins
and Lynda Sydney were naturally on hand. New member
of the team, Ellen Jung, came for the first time --
Ellen is an architect who will be assisting Yolanda with property searches
and renovation ideas.
A few old and familiar faces we hadn't seen in a while were Janice Watson who spends a few months a year in France and Thom Keel, a professor of Georgia Institute of Technology who is here with 19 undergraduate students for a study abroad program. Tracy James, past Calendar Gal, is back from Washington State to make Paris permanently her home.
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Newcomers
to Après Midi brought Angela Vona, long time
Paris resident, and her friends from high school, Wendy Fish,
a retired school teacher, now fitness trainer and life coach, who she
hadn't seen in more than 40 years!
Pat
Ranieri, wants to spend most of her time here and is looking
for an apartment, Ralph Lastuka has just come to Paris
this April to work in business consulting, financing and teaching.
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Valerie
Anderson (and her husband) wanted to buy property in the south
and operate a B and B, but it got expense and the dollar got weak, she
complained. Now she's in Paris looking for work with an NGO or private
company in marketing, relationship management, project management and
accounting. Bonne courage!
Thomas and Charlene Burns from Montana are willing to give up the "Big Sky" for a big apartment in Paris or just on the outskirts. He's a poet, artist, photographer and is willing to take the leap. We'll be thrilled to have them! Karen Crumbliss is here for two months thanks to an invitation from the University of Paris to her husband, a chemistry professor from Duke University.
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Melin
Childress and Jim Walsh are here for April
and May, returning in September to find an apartment. Lea
Featherstone is on holiday from Minneapolis, came to Paris
for the first time last year, and this time brought her friend, Karen
Stauber with her. Consultant in fashion and entertainment,
Mori Benjamin, comes to Paris because he loves the
architecture. One of his goals is to become a permanent resident and
is planning to beginning French courses at La Sorbonne in the fall.
Carole Ozanian is fulfulling her life-long dream to
be in Pparis for a couple of months and loves all the get-togethers
with Americans.
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Robert
and Carlyn Alpert are here checking into the possibilities
of making Paris more permanent -- once or twice a year just isn't enough.
Same story for Peter and Thèrése Zielinski who come to
France and Spain for a month every year. They're thinking of buying,
but are waiting for the exchange rate to make an improvement. But, if
they wait too long...??
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