Hi all!
First off, let me say what a great place this is
Here's my theory on Kore families. While I think that in theory the idea may have been a great one, in practice it doesn't work. Here's some reasons why...but remember that these are just my opinions
1. They can be mis-sized. I mean that some are big, and some are tiny, all depending on graduations and resignation etc. Then, when some get too tiny, they merge with another tiny one, and there may not be anything (other than sisterhood, of course) in common, thus keeping a seperation between the 2 parts of the family.
2. Kores seem to be rather randomly picked. I only knew one of my "bigs" and that was only because her boyfriend was my crush's big bro. I hadn't even seen the othr girls (minus my pledge sis and one other) ever. So when we got placed into our families...it seemed as if we were being persuaded to be superclose to girls that we didn't know...and as it turned out had almost nothing in common with.
3. There is a big age difference between sisters. Now, this is an observation from my family, but there are 4 seniors (who've just graduated, including my mentor), 1 junior and 2 new members (myself included in this). So my family just went reduced by more than half. Also, because the mentors for myself and my pledge sis were both seniors, we only got to know them for a year, and because of the age difference we never really got to know them at all.
4. Coordinating plans with one or two friends can be tedious, and getting together with 7 (as in my family) was impossible. Even for our Initiation dinner, there were only 4 of us present, two of whom were new members. It seems as if the 1-on-1 aspect is totally missing.
When I see my girlfriends in Theta hanging out with their lil/big, I wish that I had that bond. I would like to see the big/lil (mom/dot, whatever they were called) system reimplemented because I feel that it would bring Kappa closer together, in my opinion
And remember, it's only that!
Wow...that was a lot longer than I had planned- sorry for that! Ok, please respond and tell me that you think- if I'm nuts tell me!
Loyally,
Beth
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What I want is what I've not got; but what I need is all around me