Wake up !

I got back from New York 2 days ago, but I feel like I'm still there. Not physically, but mentally for sure.

That was not a good, or great, but a wonderful experience I had there. I'll remember it my whole life probably. It was only 10 days, but it was so intense - and at different levels.

Of course the dancing part. I took 22 lessons, which basically means that I danced for 32 hours... This is a lot. But still not enough !! It was quite different from the classes I'm used to take in Sweden, but it was good. Generally, we had a 45 minutes of warm-up, and 45 minutes of choreo. The warm-up mainly consisted in stretching, but also abs, some push-ups and sometimes some technique depending on the class and the level. Most classes were really good. Out of the 22, there were only like 2 or 3 that I did not really like. All the other were just pure happiness and fun ! :) And I'm happy because I really felt that I was doing better at the end than at the beginning of the journey. Maybe it was because I got used to the teachers, the style etc. But still, I wanna believe that I (me, myself !) got better :)

It was quite an intense rhythm. I was taking between 2 and 4 classes a day, everyday. It's a lot when you're not used to it ! But I think my body reacted quite well so it also means that I was well prepared. Of course I had sore muscles like the 3 first days, but then it was ok.

Now the "group" part was quite intense as well. As the group, I of course mean the people who were traveling with me. At the very beginning, I have to admit that I was kind of scared. I was one of the oldest, there were mainly pro dancers, and "about to be pro" dancers, we were having totally different backgrounds... and I was thinking : "OMG, how is this gonna work ? Where is my place gonna be in this group ?".

And finally, I met wonderful people, and I think that there, the only thing that counted is that we were sharing a passion - dancing - and also we were part of the same unique experience. I don't know if we're still gonna be friends in 5 or 10 years, but we will always have this in common - and I don't think any of us will ever forget it. Everything went really fast, maybe that was superficial, but I love them all (well, almost all lol), and I miss them for sure.

Here we are, just before seeing West Side Story :)

When we did the limo tour

Going out the last night

Just for the little story, we went out on Saturday night - and as we were 5 ppl, most cabs didn't wanna take us. So we had to take a bigger cab, but it only had to seats, and then you had to stand up and hang, like in bus, except that we of course could not stand entirely ! So we just danced in the cab on the way back, and people in the cars around us were taking pictures !!

Then the New York part. I would say that living or just staying in New York is something very intense. The crowd everywhere, shops open until... I don't even know what time because there seemed to be always open, people walking fast, all the lights, the buildings... New York definitely deserves its reputation as a city that never sleeps. I don't know how it is when you live there for real, but when you're just staying for a few days, it's kind of magic I think. It's like you have to live with the city. I don't know, maybe I would be too tired after a while... But the only way to know is to try, isn't it ? ;)

So now I'm in France. I'm happy to be with my family, I'm glad I get to see my friends soon. Don't get me wrong about that. But I have to admit that the only place where I wanna be right now is a dance studio in New York. I miss it so much that it almost hurts... The last day we had there, during the whole day, I felt like I was about to cry. I had this lump in my throat... And when the plane took off, I was looking outside, saw New York from the sky, and started to cry like it had not happen to me for a long time.

And now I'm thinking about New York every single minute, trying to see when I could come back, I'm looking at the pictures, looking at Facebook to see if I get news from the girls (who are apparently doing the same lol) and so on...

Maybe I'm a bit extreme in my reaction, but those who know me, know that I'm the kind of person who is very spontaneous, passionate and I don't do "half things". So I don't "half react". And I always need to express all my feelings, whether they are positive or negative. Hopefully, I've mainly been very positive lately haha.

But now the feeling I have is that I should wake up, and start a new day. I need to get over, go forward, and enjoy the present time.

So if somebody could ring the waking alarm for me... that would be really helpful :)