🙋‍♂️😊 Interview with Billa 🚗🏄‍♂️

Good morning Yueh ! How are you ?.Well, if it is not too late for giving an answer to a so charming young lady, I would say that I would stay where I was because Etienne was really right when he said that California and mote specially Central California is one of the most beautiful and lovely place on this planet !

I m a very independent person and I m used to managing myself wherever I go and travel by trying to speak local language and living and eating like locals ( it is less expensive ! 😀)

Bye Yue ! Have a nice sunday ! François 😘

Merci beaucoup François for your nice answer!!! 😊😊 I looked on google because of what you and @Etienne said about Central California and it looks really beautiful. I thought it would be the most about San Francisco and LA and Hollywood but the nature is super beautiful. And there are also small towns at the beach and i saw for example this in English on google: https://www.worldatlas.com/cities/11-most-charming-central-california-coast-towns.html

I will make questions for Part III of the interview and if anybody has a question for François or would like to post a comment you can do it below!! ⬇️⬇️

PART III

11: Which song and which band do you think that EVERYBODY on PPG should hear? And have you been to concerts often?

Well if I had to advise to Ppg community to listen just one song, I would choose " riders on the storm " from the Doors and for the band, I would choose AC DC ( that's their final last tour this year ).

The Doors - Riders On The Storm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1hn1pF-ilQ

AC/DC - Thunderstruck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM

Unfortunately I was unable to go often to concerts.

12: What do you think was better in the past in France and what is better now?

Well, I would say that there were less guns and Kalachnikov machine guns in the streets, less drug business also and at last less problems with religion and by the way, people were more tolerant with each other.

So what is better now in France compared to yesterday ? Well, I would say that my country became a very digitalised one which is a very good thing because thanks to that we are sparing much time at work or for everyday life tasks and I also recently noticed the very fast growing level of electric car plug in in France.

13: If you win 1 million Euros as a prize: what will you do with it? Will that change your life? And if you have to donate 20% to a charity, which would you choose?

Well, I would certainly invest most of it in sparing and house renovations and the rest would be given to make gifts to my family and charity associations. In fact, such a money would not change my life a lot and if I had to give 20% of this loot to a charity association, I would give them to the Restos du coeur association, a french charity one which collects food for poor people in my country.

14: If you have to give a guest class on a high school and you can teach ANYTHING what would you choose? And what kind of subjects did you like the most at school and which the least?

I always dreamt to teach history at high school as @diogenes_cask did but unfortunately I was unable to fulfill my dream as he did ! When I was a student , I loved history and foreign languages but I used to be in real trouble with mathematics and physics!

15: Which life lesson do you think is important to give as tip to others? Did others teach you that lesson or did you find it out yourself?

My own personal life experiment and my job learnt me to accept other people as they are and not as I would like them to be !

Thank you very much François for the answers above!!! I hope that you did not mind answering everything because i know it is a lot of work!! 😛 😛 But it is a super nice way to know you this way. 🙂 Later I will add nice pictures about the answers above. If anybody else has questions or wants to comment in the meantime, you can share it below!! ⬇️⬇️

Merci beaucoup!!! 🌸🙏🙏🌈🌼🌼🌸

I looked for nice pictures online about the anserws of François @Billa and I found these (I hope i got everything right)!! 😛

Music:

Restos du coeur association:

And here you can read more about the charity (I only found things in French online): https://www.restosducoeur.org and https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Restaurants_du_Cœur

PART IV

16: Can your work be very stressful? How do you deal with stress? Do you have good tips if somebody feels stressed a lot?

My job is very stressful and I m under the pressure all the time : pressure from the clients who can be sometimes very rude and agressive at the present time ( more specially when you talk about money with them ) and with my direction for the selling results and the clients quality inquiries after delivering. I must say that such a pressure and stress can be often very hard to face with and I really often have to work on myself so as to control my mind , words and face expressions with clients and with direction executives for not getting exploded myself. I think everyone has to find his own method so as to manage with such a high stress and I will not give any advice to anyone on this topic !

17: If you can have ONE YEAR free from work: what would you like to do in that year?

If I could have one year free from work, I would like to do many things during such a long time : spending more time with my beloved Judith even if she is working hard too , doing home reparations and housework and at last starting my own endless summer bodyboarding by looking for the best world s waves !

18: Do you like art? And if so: which is your favourite museum in the world that you visited or still want to visit? And what kind of art do you like the most?

I like art and think art can be expressed on many different ways. My favourite museum is the Louvres one : this place is really the world s biggest and I think I need at least 3 days so as to be able to visit everything there ! I like to see how civilisations developped themselves along the time in their monuments architecture or by their daily life view.

19: If you can have dinner with a famous person (it can be a person alive or from history): who would you choose and why?

If I could have a dinner with a famous person, I would immediately choose and without any hesitation french president Macron : I m not à great fan of this political character even if I used to vote for him for his first election in 2017 but I m really impressed by such a mastermind in mass people political manipulation.

( I mean he seems to be the most hated politician in my country but he used to be elected in 2017 by 65% of the voters and reelected again by 58% of the same people and since 2022, he has no more absolute majority to french parliament but he s still leading my country and still succeeding in doing us whatever he wants to ! ).

20: Which question did i forget to ask you and would you like to answer anyway? 😛 Can people ask questions to you in the future in this forum?

In my opinion, you asked me a very huge diversity of questions and I don t see any other topic at the moment and of course Penpal Community can ask me all the questions they want !

THANK YOU VERY MUCH for this interview François!!! 🙏🙏😊😇 I am really happy that i could do that and that you took a lot of time for it. 🙂 Later i will add some pictures about your answers that i think are maybe nice to add.

And if anybody wants to write a comment or leave a question you can do that below!! ⬇️⬇️

These pictures of the Louvre are nice to add about what François said above: