ok so here is day one of recruitment. You attend every house for about a half hour. But I had band practice this day so I actually missed my first two houses
, I missed my second house (Poodles) literally by a 15 seconds... I was actually just gettign to the sorority house at the one minute mark but htey didnt think id have time to get caught up on everything before we went in. So I was only going to see 5 this night, even though I originally thought i had only missed one house and I was actually going to get to back it up after my gamma chi group had finished since we were the first ones done but this ended up not being the case.
beagle: this was my first house fr the night, I was being briefed on recruitment procedures (clapping, sitting, etc) the 5 minutes before we walked into the house. so we walk in and the conversation who is talking to me was a little akward and I felt like I was caring most of the conversation with the first gorl i talked to, but the second was very genuine and overall I left feeling that it wasn't my favorite and a little weird but i really did like them this summer (as they were probably my favorite). So I thought I wanted to go back.
Akita: the conversation here was much much better and I loved it. They seemed much more genuine than my first house and I didnt feel as out of place here. You could tell all the girls were really close and I knew I wanted to come back.
Maltese: I walked in and was immediately comfortable. we talked a little about philanthropy and about the table they had. (they were gorgeous with lots of pictures) i could immediately tell their sister hood was very close and they were a great group of girls. This was probably my favorite house of the night.
Yorkie: This was by far my least favorite house of the night. I talked to 7 girls in like 30 minutes at this house. I felt very very overwhelmed here and although the girls wer all very sweet I just didnt think I d really fit in here. I didnt think Id come back tomorrow.
Grey hound: by far the most relaxed conversation I had that night. It was very "non recruitment talk." im not joking we talked about flamingos and rubber ducks. It was a very nice way to end recruitment for the night. I knew I could easily be myself here and could of seen myself here. I wanted to come back tomorrow.
So when we were finished, I got my card to fill out and was told I wasnt going to get to go see the two houses I missed (poodles and pomeranians). However If I put either of those houses down, it would not count against me and I would get to see them tomorrow if they were on my top 5 (even though there was no way they could ask me back). I hated that I wasnt going to get to see 2 of the 7 houses and definately knew I wanted to keep one of them from how much I had loved them in the summer (the pomeranians), but could not decide whether to keep the house I had felt ok in and had actually seen and loved so much in the summer(beagles) or to get the oppurtunity to see the poodles the next night. so after much debate I ranked
maltese-1
akita-1
pomeranian-1
grey hound-1
beagle-1
poodles-2
yorkie-3
nad walked back to my dorm with my friend who was also going through recruitment. We stayed up talking like half the night about everything under the sun. Even though we both had early classes, we were both so excited for recruitment and with so many nerves built up we were not getting much if any sleep at all that week. and the little sleep I did get was honestly not that great. By the end of this first night I was so so so so so glad I had decided to go through recruitment.