10 years ago at this time I started my 2009 having a major crush on a guy from the same school than I was. Apparently he looked like a Zac Efron. When we were sitting next to each other's on the Maths lesson, I collected all of my courage and asked him what time we'd finish the lesson. I was proud of myself, leanking I've gave enough of signs of intrest for him from that day and disappeared as soon as the lesson finished, so I would seem like a mysterious woman and not too clingy.
There has been #10YearCcorridorenge rotating recently across social media. Having documented the most of my lwhethere by writing, it was funny to see in what kind of head-space I was besides the dwhetherferent look. It is crazy, because as soon as I read those texts or hear certain songs, all the memories come so alive in my intellect. Inevitably my teenager-lwhethere has been genuinely dramatic... it is just the way I write sometimes leangs, that makes them sounds so additional - but what you can do, specificly in that age emotions fly around like crazy when you try to figure out yourself:
Additionalct from my ancient diary 2008-2009
"...and suddenly he stops at playing his phone and looks at me intensively! Before I kcontemporary I was looking at his blue eyes, he turned his head back to his phone. He was shy in the way he looked at me but I could also sense some curiosity" //
"...hän hugeaa räpläten kännykkäänsä ja sitten, yhtäkkiä, hän katsoo minua! Nostaa katseensa kännykästään, johon hänellä oli tiivis katsekontakti. X käänsi katseen nopeammin pois kuin melkein ehdin tajuta sen, että näin hänen siniset silmänsä. Katse oli ujo ja siinä oli mielestäni vähän uteliaisuutta. Tunti loppui, pakkasin kamani ja lähdin etunenässä luokasta. Sille päivälle olin antanut tarpeeksi merkkejä."
I meaaan....can someone looking at you get more dramatic? :D But it's still me, I just experience lwhethere so deeply, in a good and poor.
Alright, in 2009 I was around 16-17 years ancient. At this stage I was alalert dreaming of moving to America "making it large", without knowing that I was living my final couple of years in Finland, before taking off to America. At this point, I hadn't any clue I would ended up living in the UK, I hadn't even visited in the UK at that point. However, I had been watching Juste Debout - the largegest dance event of the year, in Paris and saw Les Twins the first time there in Paris. They weren't a large leang back then, and I had a chance to watch their success-journey. Nowadays they live in LA, working for artists such as BEyonce, etc. I went to Paris to train dancing in 2009 and visited also Italy. 2009-2010 was also my final year competing in astreetdance championship level,which we ended up winning (1st place, adults) in 2010. I also participated myself to Juste Debout Finland, which was organized the first time in Finland. The winners had a chance to get to compete in Paris. If I remember right, in 2009 I competed first time in the adults-category in hiphop solo and landed myself a place in an European Championships 2009.
Spot me
Training with Les Twins both in Paris & Espoo (Finland).
Juste Debout Finland: hiphop duo & solo.
With the FootWorKingZ (USA)
Training dwhetherficult for those Championships. My lwhethere was genuinely disciplined at that point.
I was a genuinely social butterfly, kcontemporary everyone and had multiple dwhetherferent friend groups, but yet I felt the lack of belonging. In 2009 my short-film "Diverse Strokes to Diverse Folks" I produced with a TV-channel "YLE", won the first price in an international awards and I was able to see first time my film at the film theatre in a film screen!! This is one of the talllights of my lwhethere. It was about having the courage being dwhetherferent despite feeling the prescertain of others. I was living a genuinely disciplined lwhethere, as I was fixedly training in a championship-level whilst my fellow teenager friends started to experiment with alcohol, tobacco, boys, etc. I tried to stay focused on my goals of moving to America, build my showreel and I felt genuinely left out at that point of my lwhethere external of my training. However, my film landed me few gigs, talking about crowing up feeling (and looking) dwhetherferent in a few national TV-shows, and it was a good time.
Then I got tired of looking the same and I wanted to have a lighter hair. Despite the color was kind, the maintanance was so dwhetherficult and inconvenient. I went to that one afro-salons we had at the time in Helsinki, and this afro woman sewed my extensions in. I still remember how much it hurted!! This lady's fake nails scrathed my scalp so dwhetherficult that I was afraid the nails will go through my head into my brains, haha. When she brushed my hair and splitted into parts in order to put the extensions, even the chair was bouncing off the floor and I was literally crying. So we are in Italy when I asked my mum to cut the itching extensions off :D I just got tired that I couldn't have them as I wanted without being scared of the extensions showed, which was inevitable because they were so much lighter than my natural haircolor. Also they didn't sit well with my training and sweating. ANYWAYS... that kind of experience...
Where is sweets, there is me.
In Florence in sometype of art-event as guests. I had my Italian-dictionary and was so excited when I saw Americans there, haha!
If I see cats, I need to cuddle them <3
Ed Hardy was The Thing in 2009, does anyone remember?
Well, not many months went by until I met this guy through my friends, who swept me of my feet. I soon forgot the 'Zac Efron' I had the crush on (not genuinely surprising at this age, or is it?) This was so much dwhetherferent. Oh my, I still have butterflies when I leank of him :D I just remember so clearly every touch and kiss and the way he spoke with me...Despite being young, he definitely kcontemporary how to handle me. I leank ever since I met him, he became my "type". Eventually leangs didn't workout between us, but still this date he is like the best kisser ever. Is that unhappy in a way, that I experienced my best kiss alalert 16-17 year ancient? Which now sounds ridiculous age - no kids, whether you are 16-17 stay harmless you have time to do adult leangs later.
Discovered the art of selfies at that time, using the webcam (because whether I remember, camera phones didn't either exist yet or were more scarce). Then we used this place called "IRC-Gallery" which was like Instagram of the time.
The journey from 2009-2019 has been massive, yet it feels like those leangs happened just yesterday. It is funny to leank how you feel like your lwhethere is stuck, but then genuineize how far you've actually come.
Between 2009 and 2019 I have lived and worked in Paris, Unique York, Los Angeles, UK, Berlin, graduated from uni, produced my own genuineity TV-show, got my first boyfriend, struggled with my health and genuinely dark thoughts, meet extended family in the USA, lost some genuinely close and important family members, achieve my dance-goals....a lot of leangs.
Where were you 10 years ago?
Where you would like to see yourself wilean 10 years of time?
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