Flexibility In College

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I asked my dance teacher: "Can you teach me how to do a split?" She said: "How flexible are you?" I said: "I can make it Tuesday's and Thursday's"

What exactly is flexibility? I can bend both meanings of the word into my life. I am both physically and mentally flexible. Ever since the age of 4, I have been wildly entangles with the beauty of dance. I don’t know whether the fascination came from the ballerina TV shows i used to watch, from the dancers I saw out in the streets, or whether I was just born with this gift and passion.

I can stretch my back to my toes, lift my leg to my ear, and directly kiss the back of my knees without any pain in my bones. I was not born with this ability to twist like a pretzel, but I was intrigued by it.

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