Sunday, July 31, 2011

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

Saturday, July 30, 2011

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 :)

Thursday, June 2, 2011

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 !!

Thursday, April 28, 2011

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 :)

Thursday, April 14, 2011

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 !!

Sunday, April 10, 2011

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 !! :)