identical twins, different universities, overlapping recruitments...

[recruitment]

Originally Posted by Ocalagirl

<I forgot to add this>I love the ski code names btw...I have been to most of them listed and skiing is the reason I had to have my ACL repaired after a bad fall in Tahoe this past March (atleast it was pretty rolling down the icy moutain lol). For your sister I am rooting for Aspen or Deer Valley because they are awesome!! But for you I am rooting for Park City or Telluride because they by far are my favorite places in the world to ski!!

lol... hijack! my favorite resorts are aspen and deer valley, i love both of them... they are both so elegant. i am glad you choose those for sydney... but i am not giving anything away yet. i also like the glitz, glam and "new money" of vail... i really love skiing the canadian rockies and skiing that area, especially lake louise... looking down at that azure blue glacier lake and then the chateaux with the ice castles on the glacier lake... dreams are made of visions like that!

a few more details...
we both had a bit of a hard time finding just "the right clothes"... as i have previously mentioned... we are both very petite. we both tan well and have really long blond hair. our eyes are blue but colored contacts really can make them vibrant violet, green or really blue. so, in addition to coordinating every detail of the clothes that we wore... we also attempted to match out eye colors... i know, very vain... but in a competitive recruitment one has to do something to set themselves apart. we had always drawn attention being identical twins... that was not going to be a distinquishing factor since we went to different universities. luckily our mother has impeccible taste and thought she knew our sizes and but did know our individual taste... so while we were working hard all summer preparing for cheerleading at a division one university... she was buying lots of wonderful things. she even had a friend get her into market in both dallas and atlanta... and she purchased some really wonderful clothes... tre chic!

it seems when one is really petite... the clothes in the petite or junior section of even really great stores... are just not a glamourous and a bit too "cutsey" for our tastes. we both knew this was going to be hard. and... i had worked so hard in cheer, lifting weights... my body was changing and getting more muscular and i was now down to a size zero, that makes it really hard to find something elegant that does not drag the ground. when sydney saw how much i was changing physically... she immediately started weights... and really toned up as well. our mother about had a fit... lol... as almost everything she purchased would need to be altered... even more.

our mother was wonderful with "loaning" us distinct pieces of "family" jewlery... the "real stuff"... it tended to make me really nervous... what if i lost something? i certainly did not need any more stress. but both of us had some killer pieces of heirloom jewelry and that set us apart... very distinctive... i have really grown to love it. diamonds are a girls best friend!

also... i have determined in my professional life that height for a woman is very much of a plus. when you are petite... people, especially professional men... seemingly tend to treat a petite woman like they are a child... and do not take you seriously. we weren't that easily dismissed... we were co-valedictorians, so grades were not an issue for us in recruitment. so... even though we were these tiny cheerleaders... we were also "smart girls"... a definite plus.

somewhat like elle woods in 'legally blond'... i wanted everything to perfectly coordinate... but in a demure and elegant fashion. sydney is a bit more "flashy"... lol... so her style tends to really stand out... she mixes colors i would not do and pulls it off extremely well. i prefer a classic, timeless look... but felt as though i needed some of sydney's fashion flair for the first few days... to really stand out. i knew i could pull off prefs... and sydney would want to follow what i chose. i loved the houses where we were lined up alphabetically... not by size, i absolutely hated being the first one in line... and the first one in the house. and... that anticipation factor... were they going to be a "quiet, elegant house"... or just as you enter scare you to death with their "enthusiasm and contagious spirit"... somewhat like we tried to do cheering! different styles... and seemingly there was no pattern to how each individual sorority did their initial greeting... but i presume that is supposed to be part of the fun. for me.. being first just made it worse... i never knew what to expect and how to react... more stressssssss!

to all of those i have now bored to death... there is only one more background scenario that i will have to discuss... a bit later. that particular point turns out to be the most dispositive element in both of our recruitments... i have alluded to it, but more later... as it is now time for sydney's recruitment to start...

cheers!