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So, Saturday morning, dressed in my new cute outfit I found at TJ Maxx the day before, I went to a lecture hall on campus where we were to receive our invites back.
They called us out alphabetically (boo I hate this system) and so I had to wait forever. In our “alphabetical” groups, we went to different, smaller classrooms in the building to receive our invites. Before the girl passed out our slips of paper, she reminded everyone that since this was not formal recruitment, and sororities did not have a lot of spots open, that we may not all get three chapters back, and we may not get back our favorites.
Anxiously, I waited for my slip of paper.
I got it, it read.
Saturday: ------------------ Sandra Lee -------
Sunday: ------------------------------------ Paula Deen
I was crushed that I got cut from all of my top chapters. I really liked one of them and had met so many girls in it that I thought for sure I’d at least be invited back to second parties. It kind of hurt when I heard a girl complaining about getting back my favorite chapter. How did that even happen when there were so few spots open? Wouldn’t they invite girls back who wanted to be there over girls who didn’t? Being a GC reader/poster, I didn’t want to be upset., because here I had two chapters left. Even though I was lukewarm about them. Still. This was more chapters than some girls had received back, and I knew I would at least give it a try. Even though did shed a small tear over loosing a lot of favorites.
Since my party at Sandra Lee was not until the afternoon, and I had to catch a bus that wasn’t scheduled for awhile, I stopped and got a Starbucks. There, I ran into the girl I knew well from Giada. She just kind of looked at me, gave me a weak smile, and turned away. This made me feel very sad inside, but I decided not to let it get to me that my favorite chapters had cut me.
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