Reflexions...

Just got back from my 3rd dancing class of the week (one more on Sunday), and... it just feels SO good.
Actually those dance classes, and dance in general are very powerful when it comes to change my mind, my spirit, the way I feel. I don't know how to explain this but it's really like, when the music starts I start to smile and be happy, almost in another world. Sort of. I can have had the biggest problems in the day, it will then disappear, during that time at least. When I'm sad, I start to be happy, when I am tired, I find some unexpected and hidden energy, when I am in a bad mood, I just smile again... I think I could almost say that dance is the (temporary) solution to all my problems !!
Well, enough about dancing ;)

The upcoming week-end is one of the few ones I have with nothing really planned before... the beginning of August... ? Oh my God that's scary !! I'll have lots of people coming to visit, one trip to France for one of my friend's wedding, some special events here in Stockholm I'm going to attend, my trip to NYC, then to France again... And then I'll be back to start my second year here ! Can't believe I've been there for 7 months already, time's really flying.

I was thinking of it a few days ago, and I just realized that I haven't had that "adaptation" period that you have when you live in a new country. I remember, the year I spent in Atlanta, the first months were really hard for me, it was hard to be so far away from family and friends, I was always trying to know what they were doing and so on, hard to get used to the culture, the people... And then I started to feel better after like... 6 months maybe ? Same when I was living in Hong Kong. The first week, it's all about discovery, excitement, meeting new people, so it's fun. But then you just realize that you are almost at the opposite of the world and you start to feel lonely, again the culture can be quite hard to get used to and so on... And maybe one month before I left, I started to feel good in this new environment.
So I was expecting kind of the same reaction, experience here. And almost nothing happened ! Well, nothing bad at least. As soon as I got here I felt good, I felt like home. Of course I have had some times harder than others but I've never felt depressed and I've never been in a "I wanna go back home" mood. But perhaps the reason to this is that I managed to make it really "home" since the beginning, building my own life with this new job I like, this new people I've met and the ones I'm meeting continuously, those wonderful dance classes, my apartment that I just love... And probably focusing on what's happening here and not on what's happening somewhere else and wondering if I wouldn't be better over there...

The conclusion of this is just that I am VERY happy at the moment and I am not planning to come back to France so soon. Before summer 2011 at least. Then we'll see where life brings me... :)