Graduation Speech: Just Dance

Remember the time we convinced the counselors at Purdue swim camp that we were twins? We started up the charade not long after we got there and kept it up for almost the whole week. Even though you aren’t my twin, you are the first person I would pick to be on my team, no matter what. You make it so there is never a dull moment in life. Our endless competitions and talks fill the day and sometimes go long into the night. My sister fiercely protects and stands up for the people she loves. She has to arrive to everything at least fifteen minutes early and everything has to be in a certain place and squeaky clean, which drives me insane. She has shaped me into the person I am today and I don’t know what I would do if she wasn’t a part of my life.
The two of us have seriously created a contest for everything we do. This past winter break the two of us played “Just Dance” almost everyday to see who would come out victorious. She took it to a whole new level when the two of us got back home from swim practice, tired and sore. We pushed through the pain, neither one of us were willing to give up even though our legs could barely hold us up from the kicks we did at practice. Just Dance is not the only thing we compete over. Throughout the years the two of us have had eating contests of all kinds. There have been ones like who could eat the most pizza, or who could eat the bowl of ice cream the fastest without getting a brain freeze, or even who could go the longest without getting a drink after eating spicy
Sometimes our contests last hours upon hours because of our pride. There is only one thing that I know my sister can beat me at without her even trying. That is hula hooping which is facile to her. The girl can seriously go on for hours and when we were younger, she would never let me forget it. One time, she hula hooped for a good ten to fifteen minutes while eating a bowl of ice cream without stopping. This just goes to show how stubborn my sister is. Once she starts something you can bet she will finish it. She is a total braggart and goes on and on after she has won. She finds nothing more satisfying than winning and wiping the floor with her opponents, as she likes to