However, when I started a serious job, the desire to study abroad was far from leaving me. So I worked full-time and practiced hard, and in the meantime I found a place for my postgraduate studies. At the ZUYD University in the Netherlands – Conservatorium Maastricht, I passed the entrance exam, and then there were further “negotiations”. After the negotiations were completed, it was decided that I would continue my employment in Slovenia and use the salary to pay my studies, and come to the Netherlands mid-week and do all my study activities.
Any “normal” person would say that I was crazy. But I didn’t find it strange at all, because I was living 2 lives at the same time, the student life & the “serious” one, and it was extremely exhausting. But as you (probably) already know, you do what you love with ease and joy – so on the first day of the week I taught, on the second day I travelled and did some rehearsals, on the third day there were lectures and other classes, and on the fourth day I was back to Slovenia and straight to the music school to teach. The studies lasted 2 years, and in between me and “my” children grew up one way or another.
 
This period, too, has had its ups and downs, its openings and closings, but the whole experience has been worth it.

Worth repeating.