In one sentence: VP.

Dance is my obsession and my passion, my niche one might say, I could write pages upon pages exploring (or explaining) it but today I am trying something new: one sentence; so I’ll be specific and explain my high school dance team—the Varsity Patriettes or “VP”— which may be something new to you, reader, if you are not from the Midwest or just don’t know anything about dance, because though I’ve danced at a studio since I could hardly walk and have been through competitions in that world of dance, competitive high school “dance teaming” is a whole other world (it’s a more concentrated world with more face to face, raw competitiveness that pushes—no—FORCES each dancer to work both internally and externally together in order to be the best) and to be perfectly honest, it was (and basically still is—just ask the new team) my life—not only was it my life in the sense that I would have practice four to five days a week, a halftime performance on most Fridays, and a competition most Saturdays or Sundays—but also because my teammates became 23 of my best friends and when 24 people work for nine months, on three dances, for one day… there is no better feeling than what we experienced on March 8, 2009: becoming State Champions; so in one sentence consisting of 236 words, I give you: VP.