We are doing homecoming this fall with the men of Alpha Kappa Lambda and Phi Beta Sigma... I am SO excited!
For homecoming, the two fraternities are paired by Greek Life and then decide which sorority they would like to court. (For Greek Week, the women court the men.) Courting consists of little gifts and stuff... AKL wrote "I love Jane Doe" (or whatever the girl's name happened to be, haha) on blue balloons... one for every girl in the chapter... and left them all in our TV room before chapter one night. The men also arranged for us to all watch a movie together one night and came to the house to pick us up. We did a "blue moon raid" at their house where we show up at midnight and bring them blue cakes and candy and food and such and we also put posters throughout their house! (Haha, courting's a big deal...)
To show that you are officially interested in a sorority, you write a serenade for them and perform it. (It's like a skit!) If a sorority is serenaded more than once, they have to vote which fraternity they prefer and then serenade them back to accept their invitation to do homecoming.
Then you wait four months... and then you pomp, do more skits, and dancing, and sometimes singing, and build a float, etc... so stressful but tons of fun!
