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Dimitri is a volunteer fireman
Dimitri is a volunteer firefighter

"During the week I go to school in Angoulême which is a city about 15 miles away. I went to school close to my house until I was fifteen, then I started to go to the college. I get up at 7am, have my breakfast in the school self service canteen and then attend lessons. 'Lights out' is at 10pm, but I don't go to sleep then. I specialise in sciences: biology, chemistry and physics. I'm in my last year at school.

"I am a voluntary fireman, a sapeur-pompier, at the weekends. I intend to go to Bordeaux in 2000 when I leave school to get qualifications to be a full time fireman. There are two teams of voluntary firemen and six fulltime pompiers at our local station in Aigre.

Dimitri playing his keyboard

 

 

 

 

 

"I play the keyboard in my room, mostly for myself although I have a friend with an accordion who sometimes comes round. I play mostly French songs like Claude François's 'le Téléphone pleure', 'The telephone weeps' and I'm also into sixties stuff like the Beatles."

Dimitri playing his keyboard

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Photos for On the Line by Ken Patterson