Every night trapeze artist Paullina Rasanen hangs by her toes from a bar twelve meters above the ground. She says she (0) …has been hanging… off the bar for two years and she (19) ………spent……… six years in the circus before that. 

Paullina trained in dance and performing arts before she went to circus school. She told me that she (20) ……had wanted………… to join the circus because it combined all the skills she (21) ……………had learned…………… up till then. She also wanted to do something a little crazy. She said she (22) ………had gone………………… to her first circus when she was fourteen. She (23) ………………had loved………… it so much that she (24) ………had taken up………… circus work as a hobby before working in the circus professionally. 

Paullina says that so far she (25) ………has done………… about 2,300 shows with the Cirque du Soleil. She told me that when the show (26) …………moves……… to Brazil next year, she (27) …………won’t be going………… with them. Her reason? She said that she (28) …………was…………… to learn how to sing and she (29) ……wanted……… to have a baby in two or three years’ time.