Vote for Julia !!

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to tell you that my friend Julia is competiting for the Nike Top Instructor 2011.

The get to the finals, she needs to get as many people as possible to vote for her video by clicking on the following link :
Vote for Julia !

So if you could just take a few seconds and vote for her by clicking here, it would be supernice.
You need to vote for Julia Edlund, click on "Tränande" and enter your email address.

I really think she deserves to win, as apart from being my friend, I think she is a great instructor.


(Photo from Vladi)
Thanks a lot for your contribution !

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Back in Stockholm, back to work, back to real life and back to blogging as well !

The come back after the vacation has not been the easiest one I should say.
First of all I had an amazing time in France with my family and my friends, and it was hard to leave them, once again...
Then I had a not so lovely reunion with the snow here... I like the snow, but in the mountains, not in the city. And right now it's really too much snow, like almost 1m in some places. Crazy Swedish winter...
And finally work. It was a tough week with the yearly closing. I even had to work on Thursday which is a holiday here.

So yeah, hard come back.

Hopefully coming back also meant seeing Veronica, Valérie, Ludivine and some others, which is cool. And back to dancing as well :)

However, the main feeling now is that I'm completely lost. I don't know where I wanna be, what I wanna do, how I wanna live...
Life would be much easier without having to make choices.

The past few months, I was feeling so good here in Sweden, that even though I know it was possible, I didn't really think that coming back to France was an option. Because when you feel good somewhere, why change ?
But when I was in France, having a great time and also while talking with people, I started to realize that yes, maybe coming back to France is also an option, and not such a bad one actually.

So now I'm lost, really lost. And the problem is that, as I'm in this "grey zone", I'm not 100% enthuiastic anymore about Sweden, which is really annoying, cause that's where I am right now.

But I know it's kind of a luxury choice. It's not as if I had to choose between eating and paying my rent.
So I'll try to forget about it for a while, until my boss comes and asks me to make a final decision. I guess I need to feel some pressure to really be able to make this decision. Otherwise it can last for ever.

And until then I'll just concentrate on what's happening in the near future and enjoy those moments. I'm thinking about The Nike Blast of course. But also the nice projects I'm involved in at work, the trips I've planned and so on...

So, good times to come. Let's enjoy them ! :)

Home Sweet Home... :)

I'm home since yesterday. The home were I grew up, in Tours, in the center west of France.


I started my vacation by spending the week-end seeing my friends in Paris. It was great, as usual. But each time it's quite confusing because it makes me realize how nice it is to be close to them and to spend time together. So even though I love my life in Sweden, I'm not 100% sure it's worth being far from them... Hard to know where I really wanna be then...

But now I'm home, with my mom and my brother. We decorated the Christmas tree with my brother yesterday, which was fun. I'm not a big Christmas fan but I like the idea of making the house cosy and warm.



And today I'm enjoying my first day of "doing nothing but chilling". Lovely :)


I wish you all a great vacation for those of you who have some, and for the others, a great Christmas season in general whatever you'll do.

I wish I was...

Bouuuuhhh, the snow is still there, it's dark, cold, and I almost feel like I'm getting sick.
Not good not good not good. I hate when it's like this.

At this time of the year, I wish I could be a bear, and hibernate the whole season...

Härligt söndag !

Today was SUCH a great day !

It started by meeting my friend Daniel for some kind of "breakfast-lunch-fika" at Vurma (the usual ;) ). I met Daniel when I arrived in Stockholm last year, but a few months ago he moved to Munich and I hadn't seen him since then.

Then, in the middle of the afternoon, I headed to Dansen Hus to take 2 classes with the amazing Jennie Widegren from the famous street dance swedish group Bounce.



The first class was a jazz class and the second one a hip-hop class. I loved both classes, but it's during that kind of "guest classes" that I realize that first, I really don't have a good technique, especially for the jazz, and that I'm anyway much better in hip-hop than in jazz. Or at least I have a better feeling in hip-hop than in jazz. I guess the style that suits me best is some kind of "street jazz funk", probably because it's what I'm doing most with Åsa since I started to dance again about one year ago.

Anyway, it was really fun. Most people were REALLY good with great technique and such cool style. When I'm surrounded by that kind of people, I usually feel like crap BUT I also like because it really pushes me to be better. You don't wanna look ridiculous so... And I think it's very inspiring, especially when at the end of the class, the teacher is taking the best dancers of the group and make them perform in front of everyone. And today they were SOOOO good with such a cool attitude ! Loved it !

One last thing that I wanted to comment on is the fact that Jennie, as well as some other teachers I had during guest classes for example and also in New York, are able to reproduce the whole music just with some sounds. Some of them don't even have counts, it's just on the rhythm and accents. I think it's crazy and I admire them so much for that.

I'm truly blessed that I have the opportunity to take such amazing classes here in Stockholm. It's always a nice challenge and lots of fun. And for this I really wanna thank Lena who is sharing those great tips and encouraging me to come each time.

Så, Tack Lena ! :)

Need to escape

Those past few years I've been traveling quite a lot.

First I spent one year in Atlanta which was a good occasion to move around in the US (New York, Florida, Las Vegas, the National Parks...), then my exchange semester in Hong Kong with those amazing stays in Japan and in Beijing, then my journey in Canada with my mom with a little detour by Chicago, and last year living and discovering Sweden, plus of course those 2 wonderful journeys in Tahiti and New York (again)... Plus different short stays (week-ends) in some big european cities such as London, Munich, Dublin...

Well, I have to say I've been pretty lucky.

The problem with traveling is that, the more you get, the more you want, and I would even say, the more you need. You really get addicted to it. Traveling is like a drug.

Last time I travelled "for real" was in July, for this dance trip in New York, and then one small week-end in London in September. France doesn't count because it's my home country and it doesn't really feel like traveling in the sense of discovering.
For many people, July might seem close, but for me it starts to feel quite far already and I'm in a real need of making some new traveling plans.

Unfortunately (even though I don't regret it), I've spent most of my spared money on my last 2 trips... So I guess I'm gonna go quite close this time...
So, the first plan is to spend a few days in Lapland this winter. Cause since I've been living in Sweden, I haven't moved from Stockholm at all... And then for a "bigger" trip, I might go for a road trip in Norway in the fjords with some friends next summer or in the spring. It's not really decided yet. And maybe some week-end here and there (Gothenburg, Oslo, Helsinki, Copenhagen..)

But at least I have a few things to look forward to during and after this coooooooooold and loooooooooooooong winter.

Talking about cold, I met 2 eskimos during my lunch break today... Eskimo Valerie and Eskimo Marion :)

Första inlägget på svenska...

Första, och inte sista hoppas jag… Men en kort inlägg ikväll ☺
Eftersom jag behöver öva min svenska.

Jag ar inte sa bra ännu, men jag vet att jag kan bli mycket mycket bättre om jag försöker mer och ni hjälpen mig oxå ☺

Men vad betyder jag med ”hjälp mig”?

- Skriv me på svenska
- Rätta mig när jag skriver fel (och du kan starta nu lol)
- Försöker att prata svenska när jag ar där och inte engelska…
- MEN prata mycket långsam och artikulera om du prata till mig direkt ☺
- Och äntligen, gör inte narr av mig och min franska accent när jag försöker hehe.

Då kan jag lära mig svenska!
Jag vill inte ta klasser för det… Jag har inte tid, eller jag vill inte ta tid för det i alla fall. Jag föredrar så mycket att gå dansa istället!! Så jag måste hitta andra vägar...

Tja, det är allt för ikväll!
(det tog mig 30 minuter for att skriva det så jag tror att det är tillräckligt lol)

Kram på er fina vänner ☺