Round Three is over and heard from Daughter whose voice is a bit hoarse. I have tried not to 'grill' her everyday, so info has been sparse, but she seemed like she wanted to talk it out today. She and her roommate, who is also going through recruitment, both enjoyed today's visits but felt more nervous than previous days. Daughter felt like she was 'awkward' in conversation with the
Magnolias, her first house of the day, because she was so nervous after seeing all of the upset PNMs with heavy cuts of the morning. I think they feel the stakes going up and really want to be asked back to those favorite houses. Even though they both had really full event schedules they both are worried about not being asked back, so I tried to gently remind them how good things were going so far. Then the conversation took a lighter turn with Daughter talking about all the yummy food and how the food had changed from paper napkins and ice water to fruit smoothies in beautiful glasses and shakes from the Varsity! (She also mentioned a poor PNM spilling a red fruit drink on the light carpet at one house. Daughter felt sooo bad for the girl.) We also had a laugh about her 'duck and cover' during the tornado siren yesterday and how she had managed to still get invited back to that house. One of the things she told was a bit bothersome...she had a friend's mom who had written one of her recs texting her, which I'm sure the mom did to encourage and support Daughter, but which actually made Daughter more nervous and also made Daughter feel bad when she had to tell the mom that she had been cut from that house this morning
. Daughter said she has one top favorite, still the
Lilies, but also very much likes 4 others,
Magnolias,
Jasmine,
Buttercups, and
Daffodils, but still doesn't feel much rapport with the
Snapdragons. Her 3 selections for Preference Round are
Lilies,
Magnolias, and the
Buttercups. Tomorrow morning they are happy to be sleeping in an extra hour and don't have to meet their Gamma Chis until 7:15 instead of the usual 6:00am. (I doubt this means any extra sleep for mom, I will probably be tossing and turning hearing a phantom cell phone buzz, ha!)