Introduction (Part 1)

Ok, I probably should introduce myself to you... I think this is a very difficult task... How can I sum myself up in such small space ?

My first name is Katia. My middle names are Sylviane, Michèle and Inhi... Of course, I'm French. I was born in South Korea, though. A wonderful chance, of course.

My father, Thierry had gone there to escape military service for two years. He already was a schoolmaster (he became a teacher at 21 y.o.) and taught there at the Ecole française to little pupils (of around 10). My mother, Pascale, also known as Kinou, was studying, and she had to give it all up to follow him. They met when my mother was in sixth grade, she was 11 and my father was 13. They didn't fall in love at once, or at least, my mother didn't. She was more of a brilliant, poetic, dreamy and, what's more, absolutely beautiful daughter of one of the teachers working where they were going to class back then. My father was not really liked by the other children, because he had no money (his father was a worker at the factory nearby and his mother a nurse in that school) and acted sometimes in very strange ways. Later on, his real gifts at football, or soccer, whatever, would trigger off the respect of all the youth of the town he was living in. My mother was not impressed by soccer. But then, she saw him play guitar... And that was it. She started going out with him, when he left for highschool (equivalent of 10th grade in the US: educational system very different in France). It went on then...

They lived in the East of France, in a town called Vesoul. Neither one was born there. My mother was born a little further North (in Montbeliard) and my father a little further South (in Annecy). But my father came back to Vesoul as a child because that is where his father really came from, and my mother landed there by chance. Her parents were Spanish immigrants from Algeria. Anyway, they ended up marrying after a small speration of one year or two. My father was 22 and my mother 20 in the spring of 1987.

That's all for today folks...