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.

Exciting event !

Gotta tell about what I'm doing this weekend.

As most of you know, I'm working for a public transportation company. Here in Sweden, we are operating the bus traffic mostly in Stockholm but also in some other cities (Göteborg, Jönköping, Sundsvall...).

A few months ago, we won a tender for a HUGE new area. When I say huge, it is the equivalent of 5 normal traffic areas as we call them. It is the areas of Söderort (that we already had), Huddinge, Botyrka and Nacka-Värmdö, all of them on the "Stockholm territory".

People have been working on this start-up for months now, and on Monday, we are finally starting to operate the traffic, and lots of things need to be ready by then. The new depot in Gubbängen, some material for the drivers, all the buses... To give you an example, one of the areas that we now call "Stockholm Sydväst" (ex Huddinge, Botyrka, Söderort) counts a bit more than 500 buses and 1300 drivers. So there is a lot to prepare !

So I'm spending my weekend at Gubbängen depot, helping them to prepare everything. And I'll be in Söderort at 4am in the morning on Monday to hand out stuff to the drivers and serve them breakfast !

That's completely non paid and volunteer work, but I think it's fun to be part of this event/project and that's also a good way to show that us, people from the huvudkontoret, are interested in the operations, that we are not just spending time behind our computers and that we know what running a bus in the traffic involves :)

Here is Nyboda (Söderort) depot :

Now, time to sleep ! Gotta be there at 8am tomorrow... Zzzzzz..........

From Paris with love

It's always the same story. Each time I go back to Paris, I need some time to adjust.
At the beginning, it's a bit hard, like I know this environment, but I don't feel like home and I only see the bad sides (people are stressed, the metro is crowded, it smells bad, longer working days...) - and then, I spend some time with my family, my friends, and I finally realize that it is where I should be.

I really love Paris. I definitely like living in Stockholm but I think I like Paris more. First of all, in terms of architecture, there is no denying that it is beautiful... Then, culturally speaking, there are always lots of things happening all the time everywhere (WAY MUCH MORE than in Stockholm - sorry Swedish peeps, no offense ;) ), it's really easy to talk to people that you don't know, and to finish, one thing that I think is pretty amazing is that people are beautiful and very well dressed !!! Parisian girls look so good in general. No matter if they are thin, big, tall, small... They all have so much style and class ! As for guys, even though not all of them are handsome, they all are sooo charming. Well, of course that's a bit general, but when I'm there, I feel surounded by beautiful people lol, both boyz and girls !

Apart from that I've spent one week in my new job. One quite crazy week as I've been working until 11pm one evening and 1am another evening... But it's gonna be really interesting so I'm happy. However that's gonna be a big challenge for me at the beginning as I'm supposed to do 5 budgets while I have almost no knowledge on the different contracts... But that's a good way to get into the subject, right ?!

Coming back to Stockholm tomorrow. Starting to be a bit fed up with planes and airports, but that's life !!! (a hard life, I know !). And on Sunday I'm gonna spend the day with Leila and Ludivine at Yasuragi Hasseludden spa, a japanese spa, in the Stockholm area.
Couldn't have found a better way to finish this great, but kind of exhausting week !!

I'm a dancer...

Well, not professionally speaking of course, but in my heart definitely.

This afternoon I was supposed to go to a dance class, but as I had trained BODYPUMP yesterday and BODYBALANCE this morning, I felt quite tired in my body and almost cancelled. But eventually I heard that my nice friend Josefin was coming to the class, so I thought it would be fun to go and dance together...

So I went there, and... well, that's almost impossible to explain this feeling that you get after such an intense dance class. You're exhausted but at the same time you produce so much endorphins that it feels amazingly good in the body.

I very often get this feeling when I go to a dance class and I just love it. It's really not comparable to anything else... It probably sounds like a cliche, but I know that all dancers and dance lovers see exactly what I mean.

As I said, I'm not a professionnal dancer, but I surely am a dancer, and I'll do everything I can to keep dancing in the coming years. I've stopped different times the past few years for different reasons, but now that I've got back to it, I'm not ready to give it up again... <3

Bara en månad kvar

Wow, my last blog post was already almost 2 months ago...
I actually thought of giving up the blogging activity as I'm not so regular to it, but when I come back here, I'm happy to write and share... so... we'll see :)

It's only one month left for me in Sweden. I had very mixed feeling but now I really start to feel that I've made the right choice, and I'm actually very happy to come back to France.
I'm sure gonna miss lots of things here, especially my friends, but also my job that I really like, my dance classes and all that comes around, my apartment, my neighbourhood, the city itself... I'm also probably gonna miss the swedish winter a bit, but not too much ;) hehe
But all good things must come to an end, right ?!
And I know that I have lots of great things to enjoy in Paris as well :)

Plus I already have some new projects in mind, and I realized that those projects, those personal goals are really driving my life, whether they are small or big.

So now the goal before I live is to enjoy as much as possible all the things that I like here. So spend as much time as possible with my friends and take as many dance classes as possible (and train as much as possible), go out in my favourite restaurants, bars...
I'm actually not willing at all to meet new people, to discover new places... And that's pretty natural I think.

So now that the weather is nice, I'm gonna leave you and go out !
Have a great day beautiful people :)

Could someone freeze the time please ??

Aouch... Last post was already one month ago... But where is time going ??
I can't believe time is flying that fast. That's really crazy.

Actually, quite a lot of things happened in one month.

First of all, I found a job ! I think the last time I wrote, I was going to France for job interviews. Well, it happened that I got the 2 jobs I was applying for, and I signed my work contract last week for one of them :) So, I'm happy and very satisfied with everything. The only "small detail" that needs to be fixed is the apartment, but I'll look for it once I'm there. So I'll be working in Paris starting from September 5th !

Also I went to New York during one week... An amazing week. I'm just deeply in love with the city. It might sound stupid or I don't know but, it feels like there EVERYTHING is possible, all the dreams can come true. I know it's very idealistic and there are probably lots of bad sides as well, but this feeling that you can do anything, achieve anything, this freedom feeling... it's not comparable to anything else.

It was my 3rd time in the Big Apple, and it surely won't be the last one... oh no !! ;)

So the come back has been really hard those past few days.
Hopefully I have quite a lot of nice things to look forward to. First of all, I'm soon going to meet my friends that are arriving from France for this long weekend. Some of them are even staying until next Thursday, so one week !
Then it will be some training in France for my new job, and in 2,5 weeks, I'm heading to Norway for a road trip with 3 crazy girls : Ludivine, Leila and Ophélie.
The winning quartet :)


Yeah I know, my life could be worse... ;) But I'm working my ass off so I think I deserve it, ha !

Ok so now if I look at my calendar, my next blog post shouldn't be before the end of June, beginning of July lol.
See u !!

Thursdays after jazz feeling :)

Just got home from a super great fun awesome dance class, and I'm wondering something : how is it possible to be so tired and so full of energy at the same time ?
I can't sleep those past few days, I've done so many things, so I'm really exhausted. But now I could just turn the music on in my apartment and dance for hours and hours.

I'm gonna miss those dance classes SO MUCH when I get back to France in a few months. So I'm definitely trying to enjoy them as much as I can now. So I won't have any regrets at the end. Well, I prefer to not even think about it...

Anyway, I hope I'll have the same amount of energy to prepare my bag and get up at 4.00 to take my plane tomorrow... !! Going to France from tomorrow morning till monday evening :)

Deadlines !

I've looked at my calendar lately and I actually almost got scared lol. But in a good way though ;)
So many happening in the more or less near future.

First, I'm going away in Jönköping for 2 days for work next Monday and Tuesday.
Then, the same week, on Thursday I'm going to Copenhaguen until the Monday after (for Easter break).
Then, in exactly 2 weeks (so the same week I'm coming back from Copenhaguen), I'm going to France for 4 days for job interviews.
Then, 3 weeks after (so in 5 weeks) I'm off to New York and then Paris. 10 days away in total.
Then, 4 days after, 5 of my friends are coming over from France for one week more or less.
And finally, 2 weeks after they leave, I'm off again but for 10 days in Norway this time :)

Phewwww... :) But I'm actually looking forward to each of those happenings. Well, some even more than others and I let you guess which ones ;) But still, ALL of them !

After that I'll have a bit less than 2 months left in Sweden. And when I say 2 months, it's the maximum as it might happen that I have to come back earlier during the summer depending on the job I find. I would prefer not but I'll probably do the "sacrifice" if the job is worth it...

So French peeps, you got it. If you wanna pay me a visit here before I leave, you'd better book your weekend now ;)

Thursday = Happy day :)

Some days are better than others, and some of those "better" days, are definitely really great. And today was one of them :)

Nothing special happened, but just small things that were enough to make me happy, and to make me realize how happy I am in general.

I can sometimes complain that I have too much work, that the weather is bad in Sweden, that I'm tired... but I think the most important is to realize that even though I'm sometimes having too much work, I love my job and I feel appreciated for it, even though the weather is not as good as I would like, the nice days are just awesome, and even though I'm tired, I'm healthy and I can dance as much as I want. :)

Talking about work, I think I'll definitely miss the "freedom" I can have here. I can really organize myself how I want as long as the work is done. So I worked from home this afternoon and I'll do the same tomorrow, and I appreciate this very much. Sometimes I can also leave work quite early, go do something else (typ dancing lol), and then go back and work from home in the evening. I don't think in France they are that flexible... We'll see in a few months :)

One more thing I wanted to mention : the pole dance classes. I've had the 3rd class yesterday (should have been the 4th but I missed one) and I was SO happy and proud of myself. It's like each time, I have a new "trigger" and suddenly I can do much more things than the previous time. So then it become more and more pleasant ! I still have sore muscles and lots of bruises of course but I like them because they are some kind of testimony of my good work haha.

Today was jazz. Just loved the class, as usual. It was the 3rd time we did the choreo and the 3rd time is always the time I prefer because I know the steps quite well so I can focus on doing them 200%, and it's the same for the other people in the studio, which creates such a great and fun atmosphere with LOTS of energy. I was almost dancing in the street on my way home lol.

And tomorrow morning I'm meeting Valerie at 7.00am to go running before work...

So now time to recharge !!

Good morning sunshine !

I woke up early this morning, at 8.00. I don't have any curtains and as it's getting bright outside more and more early, this tends to happen quite often. But I like it, especially now that spring is coming. I've been very much suffering from the hard winter, much more than last year, so now I really wanna enjoy as much as possible the nice days.

Anyway, my plan was to go to the gym for a class at 10.30, but when I saw how sunny it was, I thought : "No way I'm training inside !!!!". So I cancelled the class and finally went for some outdoor running. 35 minutes with the sun on my face, awesome feeling ! It was the first outdoor run of the year and definitely not the last one :)

My goal is to go once a week. I know I should go more if I want to really see a progress, but I'm already training quite a lot with the dancing, and I don't wanna give up on that ;) So once a week and I'll be satisfied !

This afternoon is not gonna be as much fun unfortunately. I'll try to focus on writing a cover letter to be able to really start applying for jobs in France... Boring, especially when I see the sun outside, but this has to be done so... Let's start !! :)

Report from the "dance pole-floor"

As I told you, I had my first pole dance class yesterday.
As expected, it was a lot of fun. We first started by warming up, then we spend the biggest part of the class learning some basic tricks (well, they were SUPPOSED to be basic at least), then we put everything together to make a short choreo, and we ended by doing some strength training (push ups and stuff).

Learning the tricks was quite hard, especially as you repeat them all the time. So you get easily tired. But then when we put everything together in the choreo, it became smoother in a way... Don't know if it was the feeling with the music or if it was the truth though haha.

Anyway, I've drawn 2 conclusions from this class :
1. I need to get more muscles everywhere in my body, especially in my fingers (yes, you can do some fingers strength training, it actually exists !!)
2. Next time I'll wear long sleeves... if I don't wanna get those bruises again !!

That was my arm when I woke up this morning... Nice huh?

But now I'm gonna rest for a few days I guess... I'm so sored that even breathing is painful ! And I've been working out 6 days in a raw now, for a total of 9 hours so I guess my body not only deserves, but NEEDS some rest ! :)

New experiences !

Yesterday and today are about trying new things !

It started yesterday evening when I joined Lena for a hip-hop class with Joe, who is a dancer from the famous street dance group Bounce (that I've mentionned before).

I really wanted to go as I knew that the choreo was on "Smooth Criminal" from MJ, and I had SUCH a amazing souvenir from a choreo on this song last summer in New York.

Not so surprisingly it was lots of fun and I really liked the class.

The funny thing is that we did not only dance on Smooth Criminal, it was kind of a mix of MJ songs, and one part I had done it many years ago - typ 9 or 10 years - and it really felt like my body could remember it ! The body can be quite amazing sometimes...

And we'll see if it's still amazing tonight when I go to my first pole dance class ! :) I have some doubts actually haha. It's gonna be an 8 weeks course so I really hope I can learn some tricks and hopefully get some new muscles. I've heard many times that pole dancing is a really good training, so we'll see.

So this is sure gonna be me in 8 weeks :) (or maybe not haha)

Or maybe I'll just stick to this :p


Anyway, no matter how hard it is, I think it's cool to try, I have nothing to loose, and I know I'm gonna have lots of fun with Josefin and Valerie who will be with me :)

Melodifestivalen 2011

Since a few weeks, I've heard quite a lot about this very famous and popular song contest here in Sweden : Melodifestivalen.

It took me some time before I realized that it was a contest to choose which artist would be represented at the Eurovison song contest.

I thought it was quite funny that it was so popular here, while in France is definitely seen as the most boring and tacky song contest EVER. Like people who watch it don't really dare saying it lol.
But I guess it's a bit different here in the sense that the Swedes get to vote for who's gonna represent them at this contest, while in France the singer is chosen by some kind of comitee (I don't even know how it really works actually...).

Anyway, if I understood correctly, the winner in Sweden this year is Eric Saade, with the song "Popular".



"Stop, don't say it's impossible, cause I know, it's possible". Hum... Well... lol.
I wanna a keep a good relationship with my Swedish friends so I won't share much of my opinion here ;) haha.
But still, this guy reminds very much of Zac Efron from High School Musical, both physically and with his song... Don't you think ?

I wish you all a very nice Sunday my dear friends, whatever you'll do.

Among other things, I'll go and see Black Swan, for the second time. I've seen it once already but I thought it would be interesting to see it again, knowing the end, maybe I would see or understand some things differently... And I really loved the movie :)

Bara svenska ?*

There has been a debate in the Swedish press the past few days, because in the company where I'm working, the decision has been made in one of the traffic areas that the employees should only speak Swedish.

I think it's a very delicate topic, especially as about 60 nationalities are represented among the company.

The main point there was that when the employees are gathering in the "rest area", no one feels excluded in the case where some other employees from a different nationality would speak another language than Swedish.

That's a good point.

However, from my experience - and I've been in this situation quite a lot the past 1,5 year - I'm not 100% sure that you need to make people sign a paper asking them to only speak Swedish at work. At least that's maybe not the most pedagogic way to do it.

I might be a bit naive, but I think that it's pretty natural that when some people from different nationalities are together, they use a language that everyone can understand. In my case that's English, in this one that would be Swedish then.

What do you think about it?

I think it's a very difficult subject and I don't really know where to stand because I also think that it's very easy to create confusion and that some people feel some excluded - either because they are not allowed to speak their own language, or because they wouldn't understand what some people from another nationality say when talk together.

Do you think it’s the role of the company to set that kind of language rule? Or maybe that it should try to educate its employees ?

Of course I would be more in favor of the second option. But is it realistic?

For the Swedish speaking people, here is the article I'm talking about : http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/bara-svenska-for-bussforare

Thanks for your contribution :)

*Only Swedish ?

1-2-3 news !

Wow, it's been a very long time since my last post... But I'm keeping myself busy both physically and mentally with all kinds of things lately and I don't always find the time and the energy to come and give some update.

Well, the first and main event of the past few weeks is that I've finally decided to go back to France at the end of my contract, which means at the end of August. So now it's only a few months left, less than 6 actually, and I already have the feeling that those 6 months will just fly by and be very intense. But I really wanna make the most of them, because even though I'm happy to come back to France "for real", I really like my life in Sweden and the people I've met here.

So the coming months will partly be dedicated to the research of a new job, but in Paris this time ! The coming back might be quite hard at the beginning because the rhythm will be completely different : I will work much later, won't have that much time to dance and train in general... But I guess it's just a matter of getting used to it, and I'll be closer to my family and my friends, which is really what I want.

The second news is that I'm going back to New York for one week in May !! I took my tickets today. That was an idea I had a few months ago, that I gave up for different reasons, but then I thought "F***, enjoy life girl !!". So I'm going there with my great homie Emilie. I'm almost counting the days now :)
And I also have a trip to Norway planned in June, and a long week-end in Copenhagen in April during Easter. When I told you that time was going to fly by...
However, I'll definitely spend the rest of the summer in Stockholm. It's gonna be my last months, and summer here is so delightful that it would be stupid to not enjoy it - especially after such a hard winter ! And then I'll be able to welcome all the "last minute visitors". :)

Then, 3rd news, or event... I'm going to register for a pole dance class starting from week 12. It's very trendy at the moment, everybody's trying pole dance, here in Stockholm at least. So I'm joining my sweet friend and amazing dancer Josefin. That will be very much fun I guess, and also very good strength training !

Well, that was for the last news. As you see, things are moving, changing :)

I hope you're all good !
And if you ever wanna visit (me) in Stockholm, hurry up !!

Better than any long text... :)

If you wanna have a slight feeling of the atmosphere...


...see a bit more of all the classes...


...or even the dance show of the sunday... :)

The Nike Blast 2011 : Day 2

When I woke up on Sunday morning, my body was quite sored, and I was really wondering how (the hell) I was going to survive the 5 classes of the day ! Well, I got my answer when the first class started.

It was a jazz funk class with Emilio Perrelli. GREAT ! I mean, jazz funk is definitely my style, and even though I wasn't able to remember the steps (hum), the feeling was really good, because for the 1st time since the beginning of the weekend (except for the 1st class with Åsa), I could feel it was "my" thing. And it definitely gave me energy I needed for the rest of the day. :)

Then, after a 2 hour break, I went to take Åsa Eriksson's class : "Booty Walk". Everything is in the title I would say... ! A dance class where you make yourself sexy :) No technical difficulty, just sexy moves... just pure fun ! Loved it !

Elaine Rydberg was instructing my 3rd class of the day : GaGa Our. A street class with a Lady Gaga feeling. Elaine is really cool, also with a very positive energy, so the class was lots of fun ! Too bad Elaine is not teaching in Stockholm but in Gothenburg.

And for the 4th class, Kristin Sudeikis was back, but for hip-hop fusion this time. Once again : WOW ! The choreo was kind of difficult at the beginning, quite fast, and the first half hour was pretty challenging then. But once I got it, it was really cool and I was actually quite proud of myself. :)

Finally, the last (but not least) class of the day and of the weekend as well was BODYBALANCE with Åsa F. and Josef Matthews. I thought that ending the weekend with this class would be perfect. To stretch, relax and "digest" all this energy my body received during the weekend. And I was right, it was a good ending. However, I think this BODYBALANCE program is good but thougher than the previous ones, and I felt that my muscles were really dying after all this training, and I didn't do correctly half of the exercises then...

So on Monday I was off. I figured I might need one extra weekend day to recover, and I think it was a good initiative. However, I couldn't help it and had to go dancing a bit, and I attended Åsa Ingelög's class, who is the gal who won the Nike Top Instructor competition. Her class is a bit early for me when I'm working, so today was the perfect occasion. And I'm happy I went cause the class was really good, and I think I understand why she won the competition :)

I'll finish this serie of 3 long posts by thanking everyone who has contributed to make this weekend what it was, which means fantastic. Of course Nike and the Nike people, but also my nice company during the weekend, Julia, Malin, Veronica... Åsa for the PreBlast, and also all the great instructors in general.

I don't know exactly where I'll be next year, but one thing is sure, I'll do my best to be in Stockholm for the Nike Blast 2012 :) Hoppas vi ses nästa år !!

(Pictures and links to come later).

The Nike Blast 2011 : Day 1

On the Saturday, the "real" Blast started.


I first met Julia at 7.20am (nope, no typing mistake...) to go to the venue of the event, the University. We had to be there early to first check in, but also to be able to buy clothes at the Nike shop before they run out of all the good items. And we did good cause some people were queuing for one hour to pay... Crazy !!

Then 9am, the first class started, and it was to the small but great Åsa F. to inaugurate the big stage ! A typical "Åsa-ish" class with great music, great moves, great feeling and always tons of energy. :)

Åsa on stage !
Photo from http://www.felicitasblog.com/

After that, my plan was to take the BODYCOMBAT class, but I finally figured that I might need to keep some energy for the 4 other upcoming classes of the day. Think quality, not quantity as someone told me ;)

Then, second class of the day was called "100% Earned", and was a dance classe driven by 6 awesome members of the Nike team : Robert S, Niklas L, Dorotka B, Elaine R, Åsa E, and again Åsa F. A very fun class with a mix of different styles. Here is a link with a short video of their performance.

The 3rd class of the day was the most expected one : a street dance class with Tony Stone. Tony Stone is an american dancer and has been presenting at the Nike Blast (or Convention as they used to call it) a few times already. I really liked the class, the choreo was not so easy but after a few times we managed to do it though. Well, I think at least... !! However, as Julia was mentionning it to me, it was a bit annoying that Tony Stone spent half of the class, just showing off... But anyway, the choreo and the class itself were still really good :)

4th class was not the most expected but probably the best class of the day. It was a contemporary lyrical class with the amazing Kristin Sudeikis, who is an American dancer, teaching at Peridance in New York. It had been a long time since I had taken a real contemporary/lyrical class, and during this class, I remembered why I used to love it so much. I think that it's in this kind of class that I get the better "dance feeling", like I get even more transported by the choreo and the music. And Kristin was just amazing :)

And finally, the last class was called "NYC Dance" with Marvin Foster Jr. I don't know if it's because it was the 5th and last class of the day and that I was tired, but I didn't enjoy it that much. I mean it was cool, but like one of the best dance classes of my life...

After day 1, I just went home, took a shower, had an express pizza dinner (diner ?) with Valerie and fell asleep around 9pm !! Had to be bright and early for day 2 !!!

(Pictures and links to come later).

The Nike Blast 2011 : Introduction and PreBlast

As I mentionned earlier, last weekend was the Nike Blast.

For those who haven't understood yet what it is, it's a training event organized by Nike every last weekend of January. This year, it was a total of 77 classes going on during the entire weekend. More than half of them were dance classes (jazz, street, contemporary, aerobics, ragga...), but there was also lots of yoga, core, spinning... and even lectures. Well, it was HUGE.

I have to say I had quite high expectations on this event as I had heard so much about it before. And the least I can say is that I haven't been disappointed at all, it's even the opposite. It was really amazing.

The Blast started on Friday evening, with the "Nike PreBlast, Dance Boost", a dance and choreography workshop organized by Åsa. I was a bit nervous cause I guessed that in a 3 hour class, I would have to do some kind of creation work, which I know is not my strongest point... Same with impro. But it ended to be REALLY fun. I was happy to be able to DARE, and I loved the feeling. Also Åsa made us very confortable and all the participants were really kind so I wasn't afraid to be judged or anything.

Here is the group, or at least a part of it as some of them left a bit earlier.

Thank you Vladi for the picture :)

44 hours - 49 minutes

It's the time left before The Nike Blast. :)

And the main thing in my mind right now is : I don't know what to wear !!!!!!!!!!!
Might sound stupid, huh ? It's not as if I was going to the party of the year - or maybe it is lol - but since I'm in Sweden and most of all since I started to train again one year ago, I realized that training clothes are really a crucial part of the training itself. To feel good in what you're doing, you need to feel that you look good also. Especially when you're dancing. Well, that's my feeling at least.

So I've bought quite a lot of training clothes since one year - mostly from Nike and from the BDC online shop. And even with this, I manage to look at my training garderobe and feel like I don't have anything to wear lol.
Let's just hope that they will have nice Nike clothes at the shop during the convention !

Talking about the Blast, here is my schedule for the week-end !

Friday 17.00 to 20.00: Pre-Blast - Dance Boost with Åsa

Saturday :
9.00 : Åsa F. 2011 (street dance)
10.15 : BODYCOMBAT
11.45 : 100% Earned (dance aerobic)
13.00 : MTV you and me (street) with Tony Stone !!
15.30 : Contemporary Lyrical dance
17.00 : NYC dance (street dance)

Sunday :
9.00 : Jazz Funk
12.00 : Booty Walk (dance)
13.15 : GaGa Our (street dance)
14.30 : Chair Tease (dance with chairs)
16.00 : BODYBALANCE

Hopefully, I took a day off on Monday !!

Gotta go get some sleep now. That's more than needed with this upcoming freaking crazy training dancing weekend !!