Her nickname is Trudez, and even  though she  is almost a year younger than me, we get along really well because we share a lot of the same interest like music, fashion, purses, cell phones, and boys, things that most girls like. Some of the artists we both like are Ciara, 50 cent, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, and Nelly. We love going to each other's house and we both like soccer, volleyball, and tennis. Sometime we watch football.   

 

Usually Trudy and I get along, but there are those times when we don't. "I was going to use that!!!" Trudy would say.

    "But I brought it over." I responded. We would then stop doing what we were doing at the moment and be a little mad at each other for the rest of the day. However, by the next day we would have made up, or we would have forgotten about it all together. There haven't been that many times when Trudez and I would fight, but when we did it was always about stupid little things that only mattered in our little world.

    Trudy and I enjoy rock climbing together. This past summer we took a rock climbing camp at Iron Works. We learned how to belay, and one day we even got to go to real rocks in a park in Berkeley and try climbing on them. It was fun but it was hard for both of us because it was so different from the rocks in the Iron Works building. We love to take turns belaying each other, and we also like to boulder.

    One time a few years back, Trudez and I were bored so we decided to make up a game. Trudy has a long, steep driveway on a quiet street. We would take turns kicking a soccer ball down her driveway, turning around, waiting a minute, and then going and finding the ball. Sometimes the ball was across the street and sometimes it didn't even make it to the bottom of the driveway. We had so much fun that evening. We only played that game once, and it was really silly, but I will always remember that day.

    Our little world consists of lots of memories, both happy and sad. Memories that are happy include when we first met, when she got a cat, and when our friends threw a surprise birthday party for us because our birthdays are 18 days apart. There are also shared memories that are sad, such as when Trudy fell down a hill and got a big cut on her chin, and when we had to put my friendly, loving dog, Sam, to sleep because he was 14 and had cancer.