[AchiOIOWA]

Im a freshman, and I Just joined alpha chi omega at Iowa....and it has been the best year of my life, these girls are absolutely amazing, and they have gone through so much this year.

I cant describe the feeling of walking up to the house on thursday night, I was with another one of my sisters, and we heard the house was hit but we had no idea it was that bad. We got to the house and it looked like something out of a nightmare, we both just burst into tears. This beautiful 120 year old home, were we held our chapter meetings, all house retreats, where i was iniated 1 week earlier, that we loved and were looking forward to living in the next two years, was destroyed it looked life a freak show with so many people looking and it in disbelif and taking pictures. The beautiful 4 story deck that i fell in loved with during rush week was gone, with cars were they once were. We are sooo incredibly lucky that no one was hurt or killed. And many of our girls were able to get a lot of their possesions out. keep our live ins in your prayers because its such a hard time right now, I cant imagine what it must be like. But this has only made our chapter so much closer and stronger.

You really dont know what you have till its gone, so never take your chapter house for granted, i know its just a structure and the sorority is within the sisters, but that was more than house, i realized that when i saw the looks on the seniors faces and the tears when they saw the house, and how my president broke down walking up to our broken home. So many women have the best memories of their lives in that house.
The house will be torn down April 25th, and i know there will be a hole in 106 girls hearts when we walk down Washington st. and see and empty lot were our once gorgeous house stood. we are now hoping and praying that we will have somewhere to live together next year,and a structure for recruitment, even tho nothing will be able to replace our achio home. i hope that i can live with 47 of my best friends. Keep the girls in your prayers!!! Alphi Chi at Iowa is not gone.....our sisterhood is stronger than ever....if we can get through a tornado we can get through any thing!!!!!