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The next morning was preference day! I really wanted to be able to go back to a full schedule of 3 chapters. I wanted to go to my favorite and then my 2 that were just so so. When I got my schedule from my rho gamma I only had two. When I looked more closely I saw that it was Tribute and Kona. I was really dissapointed to be cut from Yukon. I had liked them from the very beginning and I thought that there was a reason why the had stayed on my schedule while so many of my other favorites cut me. I also had two breaks in a row before I went to my first party... I didn't want any time to dwell on it. The only thing I was happy about was that I didn't have to back to Breakfast. I was going to stick with it though. I had told myself that I would always go all the way through preference and then decide if I wanted to join the ones I had left. I also didn't dislike either of the chapters that I got asked back to, they just didn't excite me as much as others.
After my breaks I went to Kona first. During there preference ceremony they really grew on me. The girl I talked was not awkward at all! They read letters that were really heartfelt and I saw girls tearing up. Then we watched video that showed a silly side to them. I loved being able to see the balance. While they hadn't been my favorite all week I could see myself being happy there.
Then I went to Tribute and talked to a girl who I had talked to 2 other times before during recruitment. We were still able to have a great conversation it hadn't been like we had run out of things to talk about! Their decoration were also very pretty but that was just an added plus. When the ceremony actually started the read a rho gamma letter and all sang a song together. Again, girls started tearing up. At the end I knew I also would be happy in this chapter even though they didn't stand out at the beginning either. They had also grown on me
Going to preferencing I had no idea what to do at first. Both chapters had not been on my radar at first and both really grew on me during this round. I talked to multiple people and my rho gamma. One girl in my rho gamma group had made a comment about how she remebered me saying that I liked Tribute. This took my off gaurd because I didn't really remeber saying that to her but I took note that someone else had noticed me liking them. When I talked to my rho gamma I also figured out that I had more consistanly like tribute than kona. I know that could count on Tribute to be full of girls who I could easily talk to based off of how all my conversations there had been easy. I also liked that tribute had obviously remembered me since I talked to one girl multiple times. At Kona I never talked to the same person once. I would still be happy with Kona but I ranked them...
1. Tribute
2. Kona
The funny thing is that once I submitted my decision I really wanted to get the one I ranked first. The whole week hadn't seemed to go the way I had wanted it to. It seemed like each day I got cut from more of my favorites. For once I wanted it to be the time that I actually got asked back to the one that I had decided I liked the most. Panhellenic had really emphasized the importance of making decisions for yourself and I really wanted this decision I had made for myself to be worth it by Tribute being the one I would join.
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