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 :)