04.26.09

Swing&Soul

Posted in Climbing, Lindy Hop at 1:37 pm by tesstess

I’ve ache in all my muscles today. Yesterday we climbed for 5 hours, and then direct after I danced for 3 hours. Intensive day.

We went up quite early, 8 is early for being saturday, and went to to Chateaudouble, a climbing site in the Var, one hour by car. Just before the site we stopped in a small village to take coffe and croissant in the sun, feeling the village atmosphere. I had forgotten how nice this site is, first a small walk in the forest and then full south with view of forest and the village.

We started with a long route, devided in three. I’m not anymore scared to go in first so Anthony started, then I climbed up to him and went first in the second route, then Anthony climbed up to me and continued doing the third one in first. All three was in 5c and I found them easy and beautiful. We did 7 routs in total, I found all expect the last quite easy, Anthony says I improved a lot lately, makes me happy. I don’t notice it, I mean I don’t feel better, it just feels like the routs got easier. The last one we did was a very physic 6a+, I made it in first but I had to fight a lot, lots of bad words in swedish.

In the late afternoon I met up with Gwladys and Louic at the the ce room in amadeus and we practiced lindy. The goal was to test to teach with Gwladys, using Louic as betatester. Don’t remember if I wrote it already but I’m planning to start a ce club in Amadeus, teach lindy hop and organize to go together to different camps around in france. We decided the name of the group to ’swing&soul’ because we plan to not only dance to swing but also to more modern music, it will open up to interest more people. So yesterday it was Louic who taught us what parts of the basics that are hard. I only taught medium, advanced and acro classes before, never the pure beginners, it’s really a different methodology, but very interesting. We’re soo looking forward to teaching a group!

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04.16.09

Easter

Posted in Etzling, Hollidays, Family at 9:59 pm by tesstess

We made a long weekend of the already long easter-weekend, went upp to Anthonys parents in Lorraine (close to Forbach). Thursday morning we started with bying me a new car. My first new car, completely red, a Twingo, serie Rip Curl (means red details inside and some other small things). I cannot show you it on picture because it’ll be finished in july… I’m longing to have it. Specially since my old car decided to stop working the day before. It could have been just a strike, but since it’s not a french car we think it’s more serious. Happened when I was in antibes at lunch, when I wanted to go back to work it just didn’t start. Luckily I was parked on a free parking because the same evening we were going to the airport, so no chance to move it. We got it yesterday lunch with anthonys car and a rope, interesting trip from Antibes to Valbonne through roundabouts and all.

Then the rest of the vacation we ate, drank good wine, talked with the family and most of all, spent the time on the fields with fruit trees. The trees were abandoned for many years, some already dead. We started this work last time we were up, and this time we cut down four, planted six new and cleaned many others. I spent several hours on the lawn mower tractor cutting the grass, funny!

Choupie running with spring energy!
We managed to forget almost all the pictures on a usb stick in his parents house, I’ll try to add them later. Among the other pictures I have one showing how Choupie was spending most of the time while we were working with the trees.

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