Do it with passion or not at all!

         I was 4 years old when my parents decided I needed to take up a sport. Like...really, I didn't move at all and maybe that's the reason I was SO DAMN CHUBBY, hahaha! All I was doing was sitting around the house and eating. Pretty sad, I know. 

So, my mom signed me up to take some ballet classes. I was very impressed with the atmosphere, the music around the gym and especially with my beautiful ballet teacher. After one year of daily classes, I was beginning to get better and better at it. But I stopped, because I wasn't doing it with passion, so why waste my time? 

        After a couple of months of break, I started to take rhythmic gymnastics classes. It was something new, but I found myself enjoying it. I started at the bottom and after 2 years of practicing, I began to learn the whole "circus" stuff, using the ball, the hoop, the clubs and the ribbon. Everything was magical. The club was organising every month a contest and I actually did won some of them.(I was so damn proud!) 

At the age of 8 I had to stop gymnastics or to pass to a whole other level, a higher one, of course, from where I could become olympic. My parents had to take a tough decision, but in the end they said that they decided this isn't for me. So I stopped, although it was hard and it hurt, I understood that and I tought "maybe one day I'll find something else, something that will fit me better, something that I won't let go." And i did. 

         At 9 years old, mom decided AGAIN than I need to do a sport (because I liked sweets waaay tooo much). And just like that, I started taking up dance classes. I didn't enjoy the first days there, because the girls were skinny and pretty and, well...I was not. But as time passed by, I realised that dancing is like dreaming with your feet. So I wanted to get better at it and in the following months I was placed more often in the first row in the choreographies (which was a thing to be proud about, trust me!). 

       

       We started in a large group of people(as you can see above) and took part to lots of shows.

I'm in the back, hahahaha! This was the first show I ever attended to :)

Our first charity show

First time attending to an international contest and winning our first trophy

Our first show at the Iulius Mall 

     

Rehearsals before the show at "Casa de cultura a studentilor

      As you can see, we did have lots of fun, lots of shows and contest. Every time I stepped on the scene I was feeling very nervous, but after a couple of seconds my whole body was wrapped in a kind of energy that cannot be explained. And that's how I fell in love with dancing. I fell in love with the feeling you have on the stage and then simply with the feeling you get when you dance on your own. It's that kind of feeling that you are so little, but you have the power to own the dance floor.

       As the months passed by, our tutor opened T-Dance, a dance centre which offered us better conditions and gave us huge opportunities to develop ourself in this direction. 

Since then, we attended to plenty of big contests like Romanii Au Talent, Nymphea, ESDU and (kind of attended) at Dansez pentru tine. More, we created our own shows, one of them called Circus, where people could come and watch our performances.

Random show at Sala Sporturilor "Horia Demian" 

    CIRCUS

        Every year, T-Dance organized a final show, where every dance group in the centre showed the audience what they have been preparing the whole year. And because the show was circus-themed, we decided to present the part that not everybody sees in the word "circus", the part behind the curtains, where all the animals suffer and want to break free and put it into a dance. That's what we tried to express: the pain behind the word "circus".

Owning the screen

Passion

 DANSEZ PENTRU TINE

     Our beautiful choreographer left in 2012 for 4 months to the contest named Dansez pentru tine (Dancing for you), so when she was the "duel" all the participants received a surprise. I her case, we were the surprise. We sneaked for about 2 days and as she started dancing live, we were right there beside her, dancing the same dance :) it was a wonderful experience!

ROMÂNII AU TALENT

     It all started on a Tuesday evening, after our training, when the choreographer asked us if we wanted to participate to this contest called "Românii au talent" and we started screaming and freaking out, because we always wanted to do that. But she reminded us that we had to work really hard to get there. And we did.

     We met all the attendees and it was really nice to talk to all of them and to find out their stories.  

     The judges gave us 3xYES, but they didn't call us to come to the semifinals, which left a bad taste on our tongue. 

     But I must say that we realized the whole effort was worth it only on the stage, when one of the judges stood up just to clap for us and the other two said that we should be an example for the kids nowadays. Now that was worth it! 

ESDU   

         I bet most of you didn't hear about the so called ESDU Dance Contest. It's a contest where people all around the world show what they can do in the field of dancing. First in their country and then, if you're lucky, in the finals in Croatia. 

        We won the second price with the whole group and first price with the trio at Bucharest, so Croatia was waiting for us. We worked really hard for the finals and we were hoping for great results. 

        So on a cloudy day in May, we started our "adventure" to Croatia. I'm gonna say a few words about it: The trip lasted almost 30 hours (it must have lasted 15 hours MAXIMUM). Wanna know what we did the other 15 hours? Well, slept in a gas station for 7 hours, visited a car dealership and had a "shopping spree" at the so-called-mall. Everything because our bus was old and got broken. *YAAY*

          

       But after getting there, everything was worth it. There was this huge resort full of people that shared the same passion with me and that was all I needed to fall in love with that place. I was at the seaside, with people I loved, making my dream come true. I didn't need anything else.

      

      We won the 6th place as a group and the 2nd place as a trio. Thinking that there people all around the world ( South Africa, Ukraina, etc), I must say that I am proud for our results. 

          More, I attended to a party which was just-like-in-movies, I swear! It was an open-air-disco, where all the people were friendly and danced like nobody was watching.

    NYMPHEA

        Nymphea is one of the biggest hip-hop and breakdance contests in Romania in which we took part. 

  

         We prepared a different type of dance as the other groups and maybe that's the reason why we impressed the judges. We didn't expect to win the second prize, because we usually don't dance these styles. But you can see the happiness on our faces in the picture below. It's the moment when we found out that we won. 

     So this was the post about my biggest passion, which I'm trying not to let go. I'm going through a tough time now in this domain, but I'm keeping my head up and I don't stop dancing. 

     If you have a passion in any field, don't ever let it go! That's my advice for you :)

Until next time! xx

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Update post

     
          I was about to start writing the new post, when I thought "Woaaah, dude! Calm down! They don't know anything about the day when you'll post something new, so how could they follow and support you?"
          So here I am, writing an update post, where you can find more information about when and what I will post the next weeks/months.

           I'll be writing a post every week and I was thinking about posting it on Thursdays. Hope that it's okay for you. I'm going to keep posting about my experiences and passions. If you guys have any recommendation for my future posts, I would love to hear them, really! Any funny challenges (I'm thinking about making videos too), any tags(boyfriend tag, my first time tag, etc) or whatever's going through your brilliant minds, I would be glad to try any of them :) 

           See you on Thursday with the new post about my biggest passion. Till then, enjoy these unique summer days! xx

                                       

Paris is always a good idea

      It was late in winter: Christmas-time. My family and I were sitting around the Christmas-tree ready to unpack our just-received-gifts. It was the first year when I didn't write a thing to Santa Clause, so I was really curious with what gifts he could surprise me. While my family was opening their gifts, I found an UGG box under the Christmas-tree, so I opened it and tried them on. They were so fluffy and comfortable I was about to dieee! Ready to take the box to the trash, I found an envelope pasted to the right side of box. There was a piece of paper on which was written "ONE DIRECTION". I was confused, so I yelled "MOOOOM!" She laughed and said "That's actually your Christmas present". I just replied "Ok, I'm still confused". She smiled and said "We are going to their concert! Whenever you're ready!" I couldn't believe it, so I just yelled and jumped around the house. After a couple of minutes I stopped to think: Which location would it be the right one for a trip with my friends? PARIS, bien sûr!
  I called my besties and asked them "Ready for our trip to Paris?" with an involuntary grin forming on my face. Of course they said that they are, but we actually weren't. So we started the preparations: we bought the concert tickets, the airplane tickets, booked the reservation at the hotel and started the countdown!

     The days passed by very fast and we found ourselves at the airport at 5 o'clock in the morning, waiting for our plane to arrive, so that we could finally take off to the city of lights.

         We were thinking that we're going to sleep the whole flight because of our tiredness..but actually we did enjoy our flight. Captain Columbus took care of us all the way to Paris, haha!

The sky's no longer the limit!

Just my friends and I being...us!

       Once we arrived to Paris nothing could stop us from walking down the Champs-Elysées with a bright smile on our faces, entering every shop, trying lots of clothes on and buying the ones which made our hearts melt.

        After the first shopping session we were thinking to take a break. But which location should we choose? Because there are plenty of Cafes all the way down this boulevard. Actually wait a second..we're in Paris! Which Cafe has got the best macaroons in town? You guessed it, it's Ladurée! 

Well, now I'm pretty sure you're asking yourself "So..where are the so well known macaroons?" And I'm going to answer your question with one word: Patience. 

 

      After visiting the dining rooms at this so-called-Cafe, (but it was so much more than a Cafe, trust me! It was like a luxurious mansion!) after buying a pack full of macaroons so that we could spoil ourselves at the hotel too, we started the second session of shopping. 

      Walking down the boulevard, we spotted a huge, flashy gate. It looked a lot like a museum, so when we were about to enter to visit it, two guys in matching t-shits said "Welcome to Abercrombie and Fitch!" We all started to laugh out loud, while trying not to run into other people.

    

     After trying to calm down... this happened. I could say "unfortunately", but it actually was a fortunate situation. We started to freak out again, you can see this on our faces. And girls..it's not Ken! He was real, haha! 

       After receiving the polaroid picture with HIM and shopping a couple of hours at their shop, we went back to the hotel for a nap. 

     But we were actually way too excited to sleep, so we just found a way to make time pass by faster. Enjoying our macaroons, chilling in our apartment, hiding ourselves from the unbearable sunlight and taking some snaps. That's what we did in order to create this:

Well, these are "the so well known macaroons"

     After a chilly afternoon we got back in business, "visiting" the Lafayette Galleries which were huge! It was like heaven on earth for me, having all the shops that I dreamt about in a place: Topshop, Urban Outfitters, American Apparel and lots of others.

     In the evening we used our last forces to visit "The iron lady", known by everyone as the Eiffel Tower. We didn't have the chance to climb it, because it was late in the evening. Therefore, we just took some pictures and admired it from the distance. 

       The next day, at 8 o'clock in the morning we got up so that we could get early to the concert. Actually, to get early to the waiting-line. We got there around 10 a.m. thinking that we were going to be the first ones, but there was a 300-person line at our gate, so we just sat down not believing our eyes what we just saw. Really curious, we asked the first girls in the line at what hour did they get there and they said that somewhere between 4 and 5 o'clock in the morning. After that we got it why the line was already so long. 

        After the concert has begun we kept telling each other "Oh my good, we're at the concert! Can you believe it?" But we could not believe it, and even now I can't believe that we were there, 5 meters distance between us. Take a look at how close we were from the stage:

   

      After the "dream" has finished, we went to the subway station, where all the people in the subway started singing Midnight Memories and the conductor said in the speakers "We're heading to the direction: One Direction." It was an amazing experience and I won't forget it soon, for sure!


     Our last day in Paris was spent in a childish way. So? What are you thinking about? Where do you go no matter what age you are? Where do dreams come true? Where can you be old, but still feel so young? You guessed it, it's Disneyland! 

      Everything was magical: the music, the people, the weather, the rides, the shops. It was like a piece of heaven dropped in the north of France!

          After visiting the Disney Park, we went to the Studios, where we had more fun on the roller coasters, than admiring the buildings and the atmosphere around us.

       At the end of the day, so that the magic will remain inside you for sure, they didn't forget to make this beautiful firework show. 

     
      I thank God every day for blessing me, for giving me these unique opportunities and these awesome friends.
    
      

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