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From what I can gather, I'm literally the ONLY Greek in my entire graduating class (of 365 students). I even checked classmates.com to see if anybody that I had lost touch with has mentioned a fraternity or sorority in their bio, but I'm the only one.
It just doesn't seem to be a part of the culture in my area. It was never mentioned at all while I was growing up. Nobody in my family went Greek... and nobody in my family understands it today. They just kind of shrug it off with, "oh that's nice".... they think my alumnae chapter is like the local Women's Club.
Whenever I mention ZTA, my friends outside the sorority look at me like I have two heads. They had never heard of ZTA, and can't for the life of them understand what I find attractive about being a sister. But. how do you explain something like that? It's like trying to explain color to someone who is color blind.
It seems so foreign to read on this forum how much a part sororities play in some families.... and to read how some people had dreamed of being in a sorority ever since they were children.
A sorority was the last thing on my mind when I was in high school because I didn't even think they existed anymore. I thought they went out with racoon coats back in the 1950's... They were never mentioned in school, in the press.. anywhere... just on old 1950's black and white movies on TV!
What a culture shock (in a good way!) I had when I moved to Gainesville Florida! Being from the north where we "wawk duh dawg" and "drink wahduh".. I was totally unprepared for SEC life. But I LOVED it!
I'm back up in the (ugh!) northeast again, and I really miss the south. I'm here just for the job, and that's all... kind of stuck here, actually, because I love my job. But.. I'm lucky, though, that there's an alumnae chapter within an hours drive of me.
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