Theme Party Week!
I forgot to mention that another girl on my and Molly's floor,
Nancy, was also going through rush. She was a junior and was very poised and ladylike. I assumed that she would be concentrating on
Ormond.
So off we headed to our theme parties - there were three scheduled the first night.
Ormond was the first. They were one of the sororities that had a house - it actually had been a small dorm at one time (I think the modern day equivalent would be a theme house). This was another thing that made them sort of a big deal. We got to the rush party and they were doing a 50s theme. All the sisters were either dressed in 50s wear or to fit their part in the skit. The skit itself was very slick and polished with a song and everything - they had obviously rehearsed and rehearsed. After the skit we had refreshments and dispersed around the room. Do you remember the scene in Animal House where Pinto and Flounder keep getting stuck in the corner with Jugdish et al? That was EXACTLY how I felt at this party. No one was rude, but I just felt completely uncomfortable and I obviously wasn't on their priority list. If I would have been wearing multiple Swatches I would have been checking every single one of them constantly.
The party finally came to the end and Molly and I headed back to our dorm for a breather.
Merry Go Round was next and obviously Molly wasn't going there either. She had LOVED
Ormond - she spent the entire time talking to the dorm director's girlfriend who was a sister there. I was glad she had fun but I had a feeling even at this early point that we weren't going to end up as sisters.
The third party scheduled for the night was
Susie's Casuals. I didn't know much about these girls except they seemed a little more fashion forward than most of the campus and had several members on the cheerleading squad. This party was held in a dorm rec room. The theme was cute and we made our own desserts. I had a really good time at this party. The girls seemed like they could be prim and proper if the occasion called for it, but they had a rock n' roll edge underneath. I liked them a lot.
There were no parties scheduled on Tuesday because
these guys came to play at the annual campus concert and NO ONE was planning on missing it. They were AWESOME.