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OH man, the past two days have been nuts. Superfun and superexciting, but supernuts.
First round started last night and continued today with 5 last night (in really great weather. no seriously. sleety rainy snowy hail is awesome to schlep around campus in.) and 7 today. No use writing extra words, I'll just get right down to the visits!
Friday Night
Piccadilly Circus - First house of the night! I had to miss the pre-round meeting and the "kick off" ceremony due to some emergency circumstances, so I didn't have little name slips to give to each house or my name pin. When I walked in I told the girl who was collecting the slips and she jokingly said I wasn't allowed in and we both laughed. I like a good sense of humor so this was a kinda nice way to start the evening. I went in and had a pretty decent conversations with the girls. Nothing spectacular, but nothing awful. No awkward pauses or anything, I just wasn't thrilled.
Westminster Abbey - This house's greeting song will be stuck in my head for the rest of my life! They even had choreographed arm movements to go along with it. All three of the girls I spoke to were so easygoing and relaxed and the conversation really just flowed. I felt more comfortable than I expected I would - the house looks very museum like and pristine (and beautiful) so I expected I would walk in and feel cautious about even breathing the wrong way, but the girls really put me at ease and I had a great time.
Big Ben - This house was decorated for Valentine's day, it was so cute. It has lots of balloons with paper hearts that were handing from the balloon strings, it was like walking into love. This chapter is a bit smaller, though I know it's a pretty big organization on other campuses. Because of this, there were a lot of 2 PNMs to 1 sister, one of which I was a part of. The girls we spoke to kept talking about going out and one of them kept swearing. I laid low during the going out talk as I just didn't feel comfortable talking about that and I try to avoid cursing when I can. The other girls I spoke to, I just couldn't really conect with them, awkward pauses and smiling and nodding. Not my favorite.
Millenium Bridge - This was my surprise of the night. I know 2 girls in this house who are complete opposites of eachother. I also remember feeling really uncomfortable this house last year. While I shouldn't be thinking about last year, its kind of hard to avoid. But the girl I met at the door was the only girl I spoke to the whole time and it literally felt like I had known her for years. We had great conversation about music and Massachusetts (random, I know). Considering the two girls I know in this house (one of whom I'm friends with, the other was my next door neighbor last year) and this one, I can only come to the conclusion that the house is really diverse and I would like to see more!
Tower of London - Last house of the night and it ended of a pretty indifferent note. Another song that will never leave my brain, if nothing else. The girls were all really sweet, but I just couldn't see myself there, I don't think. Some of them were kind of shy and I'm more outgoing. A couple of them were more enthusiastic but, eh, I just didn't feel a sincere connection with them. I left the house to go back to my room thinking more about how stunned I was that I was actually happy at Millenium Bridge.
I have to go check flight times, how conveniently timed that I just finished typing this. ha. anyhoooo I'll update with today's as soon as this flight thing is taken care of.
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