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After a great first day of Recruitment, I woke up bright-eyed and bushy tailed the next day ready to take on round 2. I went over to UCF and met up with my Rho Gamma to get my schedule. I was ready to meet new girls from my top choices and fall more in love with them. My Rho Gamma looked through all of the teeny tiny slips of paper until she found mine and handed it to me. My mood instantly fell. Instead of seeing a full, or even half full schedule, I was dropped from every single sorority but two: Very Berry Paisley and Suzani. I was crushed. Never in my naive little brain did I think so many sororities would drop me. Because Very Berry Paisley was my first house from the day before, I had easily forgot that I liked them a lot and Suzani was my last house from the first round, so I knew I hadn't meshed well. I told as much to my Rho Gamma and she asked me what I wanted to do. I told her I still wanted to go to the parties to see what would happen. She encouraged me to do so and told me to come back at the end so I could vote.

So off I went to Very Berry Paisley not in the best of moods. Instantly I heard girls complaining about how houses they didn't like had invited them back over other houses, which made me feel even worse because they had full schedules while I didn't even get a chance to have anyone else but two sororities get to know me. They were soon calling our names to have us go and cluster up once more. So I put on a smile and made my way over to the group of girls. We once again did their chant a few times and they opened up the door and ushered us in. The screaming and cheering put me in a better mood already because I could tell how happy all of these sisters were. After everything was done we started talking about finances which was kind of boring, but I guess it was necessary. I didn't really, really connect with this girl, but she wasn't anything horrible. They then passed us off to another set of sisters who were waiting for us to talk about their philanthropy and to do the craft. We watched a video and I immediately fell in love with this sorority. There national and local philanthropies are things that are VERY VERY close to my heart. Instantly my entire day turned around. The girl I was talking to was great and she said she reminded me of a her roommates who were sisters of Very Berry Paisley and that made me even more happy. I walked out with a huge grin on my face and thinking I had just found my future sisters.

I grab my stuff and was off to Suzani. After my first party, I knew that things were going to have to go really well with this house if they were going to top Very Berry Paisley. Their door song was extremely cute and things were looking bright for Suzani! The girl that was rushing me asked if I wanted to do the craft, which of course I said sure to because who doesn't love to craft! We got to talking and I was very happy that I was having a good conversation with a sister there! It was just about the time when I was finishing the craft that they played a video for their philanthropy and the girl I was talking to (along with all of the other sisters the PNMs were talking to) stepped back to the back of the room. We watched the video which was really cute and about something I had no clue existed! So that was a plus. After the video a new sister came up and started talking to me. After we got through the usual questions, things got awkward. It was her first time doing formal recruitment from either side because she had joined in the previous spring. All of her answers were very short and she really didn't have anything to say to me. She asked if I wanted to do the craft and I told her I had already done one and she kind of looked like she didn't know what to do next. I didn't want to go talking this girl's head off like I did with the girl yesterday so we just kind of sat in a little silence until they started playing the music for us to leave. It was at that point that the girl decided to ask if I had anymore questions. I smiled and told her that I didn't. I was the first one out the door. I really could not have gotten away faster. I knew this house wasn't the right fit at all.

I went to my Rho Gamma to circle to "vote" for the two houses and told her about my parties. She told me that I could just circle Very Berry Paisley if I wanted to. While I was tempted to do so, I felt like maybe that if I talked to an active who had been around the Recruitment circuit before at Suzani, that I might end up liking them more. So I circled both and went home to shower and change!