Punkt slut.

I've never really closed this blog and I guess that time has come to do it now.

The main purpose of the blog was to share my experiences and feelings about living abroad with the people who were far away, but now that I'm back to France, it kind of loses its sense.

As a final post, I wanted to reverse the situation and share with my friends living in Sweden, my first experiences and feeling about being back to France.

The first thing I wanted to tell you is that even if I've had 2 fantastic years in Stockholm, it feels like the right place for me to be here, in Paris. Or in France at least.

I think I've found a really good balance in my life.

I like my job, it's quite challenging, in a nice atmosphere with fun colleagues, and the least I can say is that there are things to do !

I'm close to my family and my friends. It feels SO good to have all of them around me and to be able to see them regularly, and to not have anymore this feeling of "I-have-to-enjoy-this-moment-as-much-as-possible-as-it's-gonna-be-over-soon". That's what I've missed the most during my stay in Stockholm.

And the last point : the dancing/training. I've stopped all kind of training except for dancing because I had to make choices. I'm working longer hours than in Sweden, plus I'm going out more often, and I just don't have time to do everything (if I wanna have time to sleep I mean). So I kept the focus on the dancing. But that's definitely worth it !

One of the things I was the most afraid of while coming back to France, was to be disappointed in terms of dance classes. I've enjoyed SO much going to Åsa's classes at SATS (and to other instructors as well of course : Julia, Jossan, Robban...), that I had VERY high expectations... So before coming back, I had done some researches about teachers and dance schools in Paris, watched lots of videos, and after a while, I decided to go and try Nathalie Lucas' classes at Studio Harmonic. I liked her style, the music she chose (see videos)... and it actually was kind of "love at first sight" when I tried it. The same as when I tried Åsa's classes.

I'm so happy I found this class. It's different from the classes I took at SATS, I don't like it less or more - the perspective is just not the same, the pedagogy is totally different, the population of the class is not comparable... But the feeling at the end remains the same. You know when you just can't stop smiling - even though you're superover-tired - and you can feel the endorphins in your entire body.

One of the things that I like as well, is that it's a very good opportunity to meet people whom you would probably never meet if you didn't have this passion in common. :)

Ok, I'm sorry, the dancing part was a bit long but if you're reading this, you know me and you probably won't be surprised then ;)

Thank you everybody for reading this post until the end, as well as for reading the other posts.

I hope I haven't been too boring !! If so, don't worry, it's over !

Point final.