Stories Collected While Living in France

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Four French Guys and a Pasta Drainer

Sacha lived in a studio while going to school in Arles. He was happy enough, loves his classes, well most of them that is, and has a solid group of new friends. Though after a few months, he and his friends realized that they were often at each other studios: doing homework together, eating dinner, watching TV, doing laundry, hanging out… It didn't take them long to agree that it would be better to rent a big house and be room-mates (nearly unheard of in France) then remain lonely in their individual studios spread out around the town.

Sacha moves in a few weeks. He and his soon to be room-mates talked about the room mate kind of stuff, who gets what room, how to do the food thing, sharing clean up…

One room-mate said he has a TV,

Another said he had a table and chairs,

Another offered a microwave and a oven,

Sacha gulped and said, "I have a great shower curtain and pasta drainer."

 

Oh the joys of room-mates!

Do you have any ROOM MATE stories to share?

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19 responses to “Four French Guys and a Pasta Drainer”

  1. Penny

    Gotta love youth, don’t ya!
    One of my college roommates remains a friend to this day, forty odd years later.

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  2. Kimberly

    How interesting that it is uncommon there but oh so common here. Have a great day and blessings! Kimberly

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  3. momof5

    I’m wondering why the difference in France?
    On another note… I took myself off to the bookstore yesterday basically to avoid all the things that needed doing at home. I picked up a magazine I’d never seen before found a comfy seat and started to read. I opened to the page that said An American in France: Finding love, treasure and a passion for French flea market finds and thought to myself “I wonder if Corey knows her?” I turned the page and the first sentence read: “Though Corey Amaro move to France for love, she found passion (for beautiful old things, that is) at the flea market.” I laughed out loud thinking Of course! Beutiful photos of your home. For those wondering the magazine is called Flea Market Decor.
    Maybe Sacha wants some decorating advice????

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  4. Victoria Ramos

    Too many stories to count and none appropriate for posting and sharing with the public!!! 🙂 Fun times and memories ahead for Sasha!

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  5. jend’isère

    I saw film yesterday “Le Garconiere” or “The Apartmen”t with the famous scene where Jack Lemman ses a tennis racket to drain the spaghetti for Shirley McClaine.

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  6. everton terrace

    He also has a charming smile and a fabulously talented mother with a large fan base 🙂
    I remember my first day in the dorm when I went off to college. As soon as our parents had left, my new “roomie”, whom I had never met, told me she had secretly gotten married and her new husband was going to be living in a trailer in the parking lot. She hadn’t told her parents because they didn’t like him, “just because he had been to jail a few times”.
    I moved into a different room a week later 🙂

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  7. Nancy

    that story is too funny, that photo too amazing!

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  8. Karen@PasGrande-Chose

    His mother’s son! I’d be so proud of him.

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  9. Kathie B

    Re college roommates: Perhaps Sacha, after his “gap year” in the US, is introducing aspects of American culture into his university. Party on!

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  10. Brother Mathew

    Exactly what I was thinking.

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  11. Jenna

    LOL, with four guys they’ll probably use the pasta strainer more than the TV.

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  12. pattyg

    What a wonderful time. Agree the pasta strainer will be so handy and in big demand!

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  13. beatnheart

    Five Women…One house….ONE bathroom. Leave the rest to your imagination.

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  14. Marie

    Oh, my! I had transferred in as a junior after two years staying at home and attending college 200 miles away. Roomate I knew nothing about was 4 years older than I. She behaved strangely, had raging crushes on her profs, had a breakdown after Christmas and was gone by Feb. I was naive and ill prepared to deal with her and her problems. I never knew what happened to her….this was 40 years ago…thankfully, I did graduate a year and a half later!

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  15. Kiki

    Just one of my random “pop in’s @ Corey’s blog” and you have me in stitches… which is no good at all. I am still nursing a very ‘attaching’ bronchite and I should neither speak nor laugh – because after I start coughing for 10 minutes and feel 140 for another two hours…..
    How funny, funny, funny….. and good thinking of their part! I didn’t know that people in France don’t share board….
    And Sasha has so much to offer: An excellent taste in furnishing/painting/decorating amongst many other qualities 🙂 And he has got YOU for a mum; THAT should do wonders on its own…. AND a pasta strainer is VERY important in a flat-share….
    Fab photo – so absolutely wonderful!!!!!
    Thanks for the kick-off, much love

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  16. Kit

    Much more fun – as long as they can share the cooking and cleaning up afterwards! – maybe having the pasta drainer will make Sacha the pasta king.
    We were six women in a house with one bathroom, but it meant only having to cook once a week each and was a whole lot cheaper and less lonely.

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  17. tegel outlet

    Awesome post and beautiful pics Thanks for sharing

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  18. Marie-Noëlle

    Ah… I would have done the same on the spot !
    Now don’t you think that “roomie” created the whole story to get rid of you and to share the room with her boyfriend (or husband !)?

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  19. RebeccaNYC

    My first roommate in college was a drug dealer. It took me a while to figure out why she had so many strange “friends” visiting at all hours of the day and night. I lasted one whole semester with her…

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