...BEST fraternity / sorority getaway weekend...

axotiger · #1 10-08-2002, 04:18 PM

LET's HEAR SOME STORIES :

Hey fellow greeks out there... I'm at work (and kinda bored) so I figured that I'd start a thread dealing with Fraternity / Sorority Weekends... for example : I'm in a sorority, and I went to Lambda Chi's Mountain Weekend... ya following? Anyway, I just want to hear some crazy/funny/ fun/ horrible.. etc stories that happened while you were away. I guess since I started this, I'll describe a few of mine. I'm an Alpha Chi Omega at Clemson, and a Junior, so I've been to a few of these:

Freshman Year
LCA Mountain Weekend - mountains of NC
- My very first fraternity function... and it was a WHOLE weekend... but it was a blast. The way that I got a date was my ( blood ) brother stood up in his chapter and said, "Who wants to take my sister?", so Keith raised his hand, then he goes, "Who wants to take her roommate?". The reason that everyone knew I was drunk, was cause I ran up to everyone to feel my face, cause it felt like it was burning up (from the outside)
DC Formal - Hilton Head, SC
- nothing big happened here, cept we were on a Golf Course, and decided to go play at 4am... bad idea...
LCA Formal - on a Riverboat in NC
- we got kicked out of the hotel the first night, and that hotel called every hotel for 10 exits in either direction to not admit us... but it was their own fault for putting us a opposite ends of the damn hotel. They KNEW we were a group.
Sophomore Year
LCA Mountain Weekend - mountains of NC
- First of all, I had a date before my brother did (and he's in the fraternity, lol). Then someone caught on fire from standing too close to the bonfire (it was cold), and lastly.. i took a lil nap and my date came to wake me up.. and in a drunken stupor, I called him the wrong name... (NOT GOOD) Him and I are still friends now, so it's all good.
SP Cabin Weekend - Gatlinburg, TN
- Pretty calm, but the Villas were too far apart to wander back and forth.
Junior Year
LCA Mountain Weekend - Flat Rock, NC
- I just got back from this 2 weekends ago... MAN that was fun. We went skinny dipping on friday, er... um, i mean.. oops. Anyway, I was the first girl at the beer truck on saturday, and I was the LAST girl standing at 4am... however, I did find at least 25 bruises on my body that sunday... only one of which I knew what it was from. Oh well.
ALMOST PKA Mountain Weekend - same place as LCA's
- almost went this past friday, but Pike are now in trouble on campus .. IFC is cracking down.. don't get me started... i'm pissed...
SOON TO COME PKF Mountain Weekend - ?
- I'm going in afew weeks with one of buddies, Drew. I'll let you know if anything happens.

Ok, enough of my rambling.. Sorry to bore you. I wanna hear some crazy stories!!!
In the Greek Bond,
stevie

Senusret I · #2 10-08-2002, 07:15 PM

Those sound like great fun! I've never been to anything like that........does the chapter pay for everything, or is there an admission fee?

sororitygirl2 · #3 10-08-2002, 08:14 PM

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Originally posted by dardenr:
Those sound like great fun! I've never been to anything like that........does the chapter pay for everything, or is there an admission fee?

I don't know how it is at axotiger's school but at mine, when sororities had events they were paid for entirely by the sorority social budget (no assessing allowed)! But when fraternities had formals or weekend trips, the boys often paid up to $300/event for themselves and a date.

honeychile · #4 10-08-2002, 09:30 PM

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Originally posted by axotiger

- we got kicked out of the hotel the first night, and that hotel called every hotel for 10 exits in either direction to not admit us...

While I somehow feel that I should give you a stern warning about public drunkeness, I am in total awe with this part of the quote!

axotiger · #5 10-09-2002, 09:33 AM

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Originally posted by honeychile

While I somehow feel that I should give you a stern warning about public drunkeness, I am in total awe with this part of the quote!

Well, the only reason they kicked us out (ok well not the only) was because we were wandering all around the hotel because peoples rooms were so spread out... and we were loud. I mean when 60 + guys (plus their dates) go to a hotel together, they are going to want to see each other... so we were wandering around trying to find one another.

The next morning we were all getting ready to go to one of the brothers lake houses for hte day when we were told that we had to pack up and get out.

I mean it wasn't even like a nice hotel. It was a motel, 2 floors, doors to the outside. Man, we weren't even running around halls. The guys above us were truckers who were drinking outside too, (and trying to hit on us girls, which was a little scary).

In response to dardenr
- For the fraternities, the individual guys pay for these things. LCA's Mountain Weekend is in a camp in the woods, very low budget but fun... and it's like $150 or less for them and their date. But formals are more expensive.
- For sororities, we don't have weekend excursions like this, our formals and date parties are one night, and we take a bus to the place. But some girls get together and rent out cabins or hang out for the weekend, then come back for the formal, then go back to the mountains... and we pay for these too.

Senusret I · #6 10-09-2002, 10:32 AM

Thanks a lot for the response, it all sounds so cool. I see now why alumni support is so strong for NPC/IFC organizations. It is not only an emotional and time investment, but somewhat of a financial one, too.

axotiger · #7 10-09-2002, 01:20 PM

I don't get it... no one here has done anything fun, crazy, OR stupid? Hell, I've enough stories that I could write a book... maybe even a sequel or two!!
- One of my best friends (different sorority than i) were at a Mountain Weekend last year and she went skinny dipping with a bunch of people (i didnt go, i was too cold to remove a layer of clothing... hell i was ALMOST too cold to shower the next morming) anyway... one of the guys landed on her in the water and she woke up the next morning with a broken collar bone!!
She went to the hospital, got some percacet and CAME BACK

c'mon i KNOW y'all have stories

Senusret I · #8 10-09-2002, 01:32 PM

OKAY OKAY!

So I know someone who was so drunk he peed on himself at their chapter retreat!

I know because I saw the pictures.

Dionysus · #9 10-09-2002, 01:59 PM

One ex-brother grabbed another ex-brother in a chokehold at a retreat, he went insane in the membrane.

I do have a second story to tell, but I think dardenr will kill me if I told it.

Senusret I · #10 10-09-2002, 02:01 PM

LOL. . .i'm sure i won't, go ahead and PM me.

(I'm not serious all the time.

)

axotiger · #11 10-09-2002, 02:04 PM

aw c'mon guys.. now I really wanna know!! haha.
Do you guys know each other? Or just from on here?

Senusret I · #12 10-09-2002, 02:12 PM

Just from here.

Kevin · #13 10-10-2002, 09:08 AM

Well no mountains anywhere near Oklahoma... None worth going to anyway. We had our last brotherhood retreat at Lake Texoma. I didn't go because I couldn't get the weekend off from work. I know that they did ropes course stuff there... Played lots of football.. Swam in the lake.. etc.

axotiger · #14 10-10-2002, 09:23 AM

hey ktsnake,

That's what you do on retreat? Man, I saw pictures from my brother retreat a few years back and they were all standing (or holding onto each other for support) around a bonfire, with beer in hand and getting rowdy!!

But anyway, have you had at formals or whatnot. The only reason we have Mountain Weekend is cause we're in South Carolina, and we are in driving distance to Charleston, NC, TN.. etc. So it's all good!!

jess_pom · #15 10-10-2002, 10:29 AM

My first formal, we were at a kinda nice hotel, all drinking in our rooms, when there's this knock on the door. 2 security guards bust in and ask to see everyone's ID (I'm 19 btw). So I say, "it's in my room, I'll be right back" and ran down the hall and hid for an hour...