Newbie from SoCal says Hello

Hello to all you wonderful dancers here and thank you, Veena, for providing such a great website! I am new here and totally new to pole. I always wanted to try, had my first class last week and signed up for another 6 weeks right away 😀 I'm German but currently living in San Diego, CA ☀️ and I love yoga and belly dancing. I'm in the larger size league (in all three dimensions 😉 ) and, although I mainly want to pole because it's fun, wouldn't mind shedding a few pounds... also secretly wishing to grow stronger abs and biceps 😳 I must admit I am already eyeing an x-pole, but my popcorn ceiling and finding joists make me worry a bit (found already some answers here - thanks everybody!). I'm used to German brick-and-concrete houses where you can put up anything almost anywhere and the SoCal style apartment homes just seem like card houses to me 😕 OK, enough bla-bla and random facts about myself, just wanted to say Hello... And looking forward to learn from you!!! -Tine