During our stay in Austria we were all blessed to make good
friends. This post is dedicated to all our new friends!
L-R Manon, Elis, Faywen Manon is French/Australian, Elis is Puerto Rican/American They are friends from school (GIBS).L-R Sharon, Julia, Faywen More GIBS schoolmates Sharon is from South Africa and Julia is German/American.Mr. Alexander Stock was Liam’s private violin teacher. Mr. Stock is the Concert Master for the Graz Opera Orchestra (aka Graz Philharmonic)Seamus and his GIBS classmate, Nathanial, who is from New Mexico. Seamus also befriended a boy named Denis from Turkey, but unfortunately I never got their photo.Manon and Faywen were very close friends!Thomas and Sally Gissy were Manon’s parents. Robert and I considered them our closest friends while in Graz. Thomas is French and Sally is Australian. They moved to France just a couple of weeks before we came back to the USA.L-R Faywen, Elodie (Manon’s older sister), Manon Both girls were very nice and had a good sense of humor!Liam and his GIBS classmate Bruno, who was originally from Argentina.Liam and Tim: Tim was Liam’s closest friend at school. Tim was British/Mongolian.Liam and Hanzi standing in front of their school, GIBS. Hanzi was the only Austrian friend Liam had.Robert and Anita: Anita taught English at FH Joanneum. She was Austrian, but had lived for a while in Wales. She was a very good colleague and friend to Robert.Seamus and “Floofers” We befriended a couple of neighborhood cats. We have no idea what their real names were, but we gave them each a special name.