Don Alex from France. A very good friend, neighbour and party animal. Added to that he is really good with tattoos, especially if it involves 4 young British girls - at the same time!

This is AC. She's French, and lives 200 meters from us, together with 5 other girlz. She prefers cheap vodka, and is the last to leave a party. Today (Saturday the 28th of October), she left at noon.

From left to right: Ariane from Germany is a bit of a party animal, although she always look very intellectual on pictures. She lives in the same house as AC and Steffi. Next we have Loretta from a village just outside Venice, Italy. Unfortunately she is now banned from the house for the rest of September, 'cuz she has insulted Johan, Sweden and the Swedish National Football team. Kerstin is a member of the house, but since she's on so many pictures, I will come back to her, and instead skip right to Steffi to the very right. Steffi is always smiling, an the first night we were out, we couldn't drag her home. So Monika and I (it was a dirty job, but somebody had to do it) continued into the British night life, and ended up outside Kingdom, a big night club. If it had not been for the 6 pounds entrance fee, we would probably still have been there.

Chris is from Berlin, although she doesn't like the Love Parade. She lives with Loretta, and Chris is a very welcome guest in the house. They have given us a pink candle that goes in just perfect with the interior of our living room, along with a bag of coffee, so they can invite themselves in for a cup of coffee, without getting a bad consciousness.  Vielen Dank, grazie mille!

Now to Kerstin. I think I can speak for all of us, when I say that Kerstin makes every day life better for the 3 of us, not the least when she's doing the dishes. Her room is just opposite mine on the first floor. I am afraid she will leave Sheffield a bit spoiled, since she's living with 2 boys who cannot spoil their girlfriends back in Scandinavia. But I am sure she enjoys being the stand-in.

Now to the Swedish part of the gang. Johan did not come alone, with him he brought two nice girls. To the left is the first one, Anki, who lives 5 minutes walk from us. I envy her house, 'cauz I was really hoping to live there when I went around in Sheffield looking for accommodation. The entire house just had an overhaul, and almost everything inside is new. The only problem is that when the landlord painted the window frames, he forgot to move them once in a while during the first hours after the paintjob. The result is a kitchen, where the windows no longer can be opened, adding to that a broken fan gives you a house where everybody knows, what everybody's cooking, due to the smoke and smell from the kitchen. Anki is known all over Sweden due to her model pictures in a well known boys magazine (quote Anki: "It is not a porn magazine!"). Anyway the pictures are really nice, but unfortunately the fashion editor will not allow me to publish the pictures due to copy rights. That's a bloody shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Next to Anki is a part of the group referred to as "the 5 French guys". From left to right we have Ciril, Guillaume and Mo. Ciril and I recently joined the University's basket ball team, and although we suck in basket and don't understand a word of their black basket slang, we get along. Despite of the name, Guillaume is a nice and quiet guy. My goal is to be able to pronounce his name before Christmas. Mo has taken his name after the well known Simpson character, which off course automatically leads to respect from me and Johan.

First let me emphasize, I have no idea what's going on in this picture. Somebody must have manipulated it! What I can say however is that to the left is the second Swedish girl, Helena. Hej du! The beverages on the table is actually Helena's. She is a bit concerned about her and Anki's new roommates - 3 young British boys, who just moved away from their mummies. She drowns her sorrow with alcohol, which I can strongly recommend. It is a typical Swedish thing to do, only alcohol is illegal in Sweden, so they have to make their own. When Swedes run out of home made alcohol, they go to Copenhagen, where they get really drunk on spend the night on a bench in a park or at the train station, sometimes they even fall a sleep on the pavement.

To the left we have Jonathan. He prefers to speak with his eyes closed, and maybe that's why he and Helena get along so well. Now to The Man! My bruvva. Me Swedish mate.... Det svenska flag! He is a well known figure in the Sheffield Night Life, not the least because of his dancing steps, only beaten by John Travolta himself. When Johan is not thinking about food, he is thinking about... well actually, he is always thinking about food! The only thing that can interrupt him is telly commercials for hair shampoo, due to their uncensored promotion of female skin, and a soap soaked spunch on a woman's body, gently sliding down from her shoulders to her b... hold it! We have continuously called BBC to convince them into removing all advertising containing sex, women and shower scenes!

In the top left corner we have Anna. Anna is from Germany (as most of the girls in Sheffield), more precisely from Freiburg (as most of the girls in Germany are). She lives with Ariane, AC, Steffi, Marlene and Gunhild. We both joined the volley team, and very soon we felt at home. 90 % of the players play as bad as we do, but hopefully we will not be blamed, when Sheffield Hallam University leaves the Premier League in Volley next year.

Below Anna is Jean Michel, who is our French neighbour. He and Alex had to drive here in order to bring their 4 computers. He makes an excellent chicken, but his French red wine is of a medium quality. Nevertheless is he really proud of his bottles, and if you check out Jean Michel's homepage, you will find plenty of pictures with him and his wines. There are not many bottles left, especially not after his English roommate stole a bottle from him - I don't think he has gotten over it yet (I quote: "Stealing one of my red wines from me is the worst thing you can do. And he only drank it to get drunk!"). I would also like to send a personal merci beacoup (or something like that) to his mother, who makes one of the best marmalades, I've ever tasted - magnifiqué! Excuse my French.

Johan has had a bit to much of his "snus", which Ariane obviously does not approve. I may have had a bit to much of the liquid stuff as well.

I don't know who is behind Kerstin's hair, but if you can guess it, you win a kiss from the person, along with a 3 hour intensive course in the Danish row of Kings and Queens!!! E-mail your answer to: Danishdynamite@miss_X.dk

This picture is taken just before the re-recording of the Madonna music video "Like a prayer", where Kerstin has the main role. Next to her is Gunhild from Aarhus, Denmark. We study together at the Aarhus School of Business. We make out half of the Danes in Sheffield, so you may call us a minority. She prefers to visit her friends in Darby and other British Cities, but occasionally we manage to persuade her into joining our parties.

Now to the 4th member of the Oval Office. Monika, AKA Moni (not to be mixed with quids) is the oldest in the house (she is really old!). Monika is half Egyptian, and therefore prefers to have her pictures taken in profile. As Kerstin she will end up spoiled as well. Johan bought a CD for her, and I bought her flowers. We still dono why, maybe it's in our genes. Her boyfriend is coming soon to visit her, and hopefully he will take over. I would also like to thank Monika for borrowing me her laptop, so I can make this homepage - Vielen Dank und süße Traüme! Moni is half Norwegian, which is why she has invested in the blue "hyttesko". They are very popular in that country. Moni is also very aware of food leftovers, and Johan and I have to be very careful not to throw food like pasta or rice out. We try to wait until she has left the kitchen. Maybe it's because she is half German, and so she lives by the saying "Ordnung muß sein!".

Moni is smiling because she has her birthday on Friday the 11th of October, only she is smiling to the wrong camera. Quote Changing Lanes: "Better luck next time". I thought about not bringing this picture, cauz' Moni doesn't like it, but then again... we think she looks really charming.

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