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Skit Day, Part 2 of 2
Secret Bear
OH NO!!!!! I WAS SUPER LATE TO THIS HOUSE TOO!! (This place was so far away man…) I know this sounds bad, but why did this happen at the houses I really liked?! I walked in and the girl who I talked to with the crutches on the first day greeted me. I was just in time for the skit to start. She brought me over to another sister who already was talking to a PNM but we talked for like 1 minuted, plus it was a 2-on-1. Oh boy. I felt awful. I had loved loved LOVED the sister I had talked to the previous round and wanted to be my big, I was hoping she’d pull for me since I met like ZERO sisters this round. To add to my frustration and worry, their skit was THE BEST. #1. Hilarious, really catered to the specific humor of our school (i.e. funny references, campus pop culture kind of stuff). They were so into it and really went all out. Like they had no shame all out. When the skit was over, I guess the sister I was introduced to at the last minute forgot she was supposed to grab me at the end and just left me. Another sister came up and asked who was supposed to get me, but I couldn’t find her anywhere! This had been a house high on my list, but after that fiasco I didn’t know if anyone would be pulling for me when they made cuts, and conversely, I was left a little turned off by the way they handled it, even though it was also my fault for being late. (I just want to say here that I am usually a prompt person, I don’t think I was prepared to walk around so much in the awful conditions—seriously Recruitment 05 is legendary at my school for the bad weather we had, but more on that later). And their skit was SO GOOD, they had to be cool. I still realllllly liked them.
Love-a-Lot
Awkward. I definitely could not see myself fitting in here. I’m glad I had given them another shot, but there was just no way. I didn’t click with anyone, and I didn’t feel like myself when I was talking to these sisters. They seemed like they had a really tight-knit sisterhood and had fun together, but I couldn’t see myself being close with these girls--they just seemed a little distant in conversation. I’m not sure how to explain this, but the Love-a-Lots just seemed too…wholesome? Not that that is necessarily bad, but it was just a wholesome/innocent/goody-goody persona that each of the sisters I met seemed to have on. I felt like if I were a member of this house it would be hard for me to get close to them or to have deep/brutally honest conversations here (does this sound brutal?). They were just so NICE, that I even feel bad saying this. I did not want to come back for pref.
Share Bear
I was so exhausted by the time I got here (it kept getting colder and colder), that I was relieved to see that it was the sophomore sorority sister from Spanish class who was waiting for me! (Totally planned, I know, but I was excited.) I loved talking to this particular sister, I actually think she stayed with me the whole time but some others may have come over to say hi. She was in the skit too, which wasn’t “funny,” I’d say it was more along the lines of “crazy” or “nuts.” There was a lot of energy, and a lot going on. I liked talking to her, but I was unsure of this chapter as a whole. They fill a particular niche at my school and I wasn’t sure if I fit into that niche. Also, she was the only sister I had talked to thus far who I liked talking to. Nevertheless, this was my best experience at this particular chapter.
At the end of the day I was a little worried. I had some conflicted feelings about my two favorites of the day: Secret and Funshine. I SO wanted Secret to invite me back based on my awesome experience during house tours and their skit was hilarious, but this house was FAR, and I wasn’t sure about the lateness/no-one-grabbing-me-after-skit issues. Funshine’s skit was definitely not a stand out, but I had a lot of fun in my conversations and really hit it off with a good number of these girls. I was also unsure about where to place Share. My experiences the other rounds had not been stand out, but I did not want the sister from class to think she had done of bad job, because honestly, that was the best day I had there all week! I think rankings after skit day was the hardest of rankings for me. At the end, this is how the cards fell:
#1: Funshine, Wish, Secret
#2: Laugh-a-Lot
#3: Share
#4: Love-a-Lot
The next day I was in for some news for which I would not be prepared AT ALL…
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