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how did you guys all guess my haircolor? I thought that I was being so discrete! lol

So...ready for the third night?

So Julie and I were really excited for the next round of parties, because tonight was theme night! Okay, so I had absolutely no idea what that entailed, but it sounded fun, and some of the different houses (the triangles, and the stars) had asked me if i was planing on continuing for the rest of the week....so they had been talking up theme night.
Tonight I dressed in a really pretty skirt and matching top. When we were finally at the meeting place, Julie and I were excitedly talking to my fellow RA and friend *Jacki*. She and her friend were talking about the houses they were most excited to visit. Jacki and I had been talking privately, and I told her that I really like the Triangles but that I'd also heard good things about the Circles. She told me that she didnt really care in which house she ended up, as long as she was able to go greek. She mentioned that it would be weird for her to be in a Circle because her old roommate was one. She told me that her roommate was a little crazy and that she didn't think they could ever be sisters--but that if she recieved a bid, she'd accept it. I thought that that was a little desparate...her friend was really nice, just really quiet. But I digress--- We were split into four groups again, and I was with Julie again.

This time, our first stop was the Circle house. We waited as we did the day before, in the hallway. The same really pretty brunette was outside the lounge door. Tonight she was wearing a beautiful blue and green dress with a hawaiian print. She was also wearing a lay with really nice big flowers on it. I was first in line, and excited in general, so I decided to try to make small talk--even though it had failed with that first Stripe sister. I told her that I really liked her dress. The sister got really excited and said thank you, but that it belonged to one of her sisters. I think we made a little more small talk about her lay and what not, and she was really cute and excited. Inside, there was fun island music playing and all the girls had cute champagne glasses with some tropical punch. We were "layed" as we entered the lounge. The decorations were really cute. I ended up sitting next to the same girls as before, in high spirits, I was determined to be really social. The brunette gave a quick speach about how unique and special the sisterhood is because they all "Really know and love eachother" We then went around the room and each told something that we felt made us really unique. I said that I really liked that I was 100% french canadian, and that I grew up in a traditional french home. As I said it, a sister across the room caught my eye and smiled. After the game, the sister came over to talk to me. She introduced herself and said that she really liked how proud i was of my family...and that she was also a proud canadian. She was really perky and bubbly and I loved the differences that I noticed between her and the other two sisters I was talking to. We were all really comfortably talking, the shy girls opened right up once their other sister was there, and I actually felt like I was having a good time.

The next party was the Stripe party. I honestly do not remember the theme. I remember that it went well, although I felt as though it was just as "fake" The conversations I had with the sisters weren't really forced or awkward in any way, they were actually very nice...but I wasn't really acting like myself.

The next party was the Triangle party. I was really looking forward to it. The Triangle sister who was waiting for us outside the door smiled very polietly, but ignored me when I complimented her. I felt a little brushed off, but didnt really think very much of it. The Triangle theme was the old west. It was really very cute. The girls all wore matching letter shirts that were printed with a catchy slogan of the theme. Some of the girls sported hot "cowboy" boots and hats. A couple of fellow RAs started talking to me and one brought me over to their themed food--which was root beer floats and some kind of desert. Another Triangle then bonded with me over similar strange tastes in only certain brands of root beer. She showed me their trophey display case, which was filled to the brim. She pointed out some competition trophies from greek week and then said rather bitterly that they didnt have last years because another organization had stolen their win. The comment rubbed me the wrong way--because she was making out that the only reason that the Triangles didn't win was because there was a biased judge who docked them points due to a missing girl in one rehersal. She was talking about the competition that Julie had seen and that made her really love the Circles. I ignored the comment rather well and then proceeded to speak with the Triangle president and various other sisters at great length about my future ambitions and my involvement on campus. Over all the party went really well and I left feeling pretty confident.

The last party of the night was the Star party. I wasn't really looking forward to going, because even though I had liked the girls that I had met, I was still thinking about what i "knew" about them because of their reputation on campus. Julie's roommate was in charge of recruitment, and the Star theme was really nice as a result--a lot of the Stars are more "tom-boy" than "girly-girl" and so in the past their recruitment has not been strong and their numbers have suffered (i knew this just from knowing Julie's roommate before recruitment). The theme was "reach for the stars" which was really different than all of the other sororities, and I really liked it. All of the sisters were dressed nicely in dark jeans and different letters. During the party, I talked to Julie's roommate a little. She announced that the Stars had paper stars that we could color and on which we should write a wish. She said to leave the notes annonymous because they were going to decorate the lounge with the wishes for the rest of recruitment. No one really made any stars--and I noticed that a lot of the girls in my party were missing...like they had skipped the last party. I made a star because I felt badly that noone else was. The sisters also played a game where they gathered together and one Star would tell us the pledge name of one of her sisters---we then had to guess which sister had the name. I got four of them right...which was kind of fun. I also spoke with a Star who I knew from one of my classes. She really loved pink floyd and I knew this because I had seen one of her floyd tattoos and her pj pants had dark side of the moon prisms. I told her that I also really liked floyd and we talked about it for a while. I felt very comfortable talking with all of the Stars, like I didn't have to try hard to make conversation, but I also felt a little conceited, like I was almost better than them in a way (stupid i know--probably came from their reputation on campus). I also felt a little bit like I was making myself out to be a little more "chill" than I actually am...

After the parties were over, Julie and I were walking back to our dorm when I ran into some non-greek RAs. They noticed how we were dressed and asked if we had come from recruitment. I told them that we had, and both of the girls asked me what organizations I was interested in. I told them that I really liked the Triangles, the Circles, and that the Stars were nice also. Julie agreed. The girls exchanged nervous glances and asked me if I knew anything about any of the new member programs. I said that I had heard a little about the Stars--(mostly from Julie's first hand experience although I didnt say that). The girls said that the Triangles were the best organization--and then added to me that they were the only organization to which you could belong and also be an RA. This confused me since I knew a Circle who had graduated that was an RA (but I kept this to myself). The girls then told me "privately" that they had both been new members of the Circles and then dropped out during the new member period. When I asked them why they wouldn't really elaborate except to say that they had had some trouble with the process, and that there was no way you could be a good RA and a Circle. This news troubled me a little, but I was still in sort of a recruitment "after glow" and so dismissed most of what they had said--I had after all already heard that the Circles and the Stars had difficult new member programs (although it was rumoured that the Circles had the hardest). At the same time, all of the RAs on my campus who were greek were Triangles...so I figured that there had to be a reason for that...and besides--I did have the same hair color as that Triangle family.