Aerylle's 2010 Fall Recruitment Story

[Aerylle]

Last night was.. Interesting. If anyone is interested, I can fill you in on the drama that happened after ranking yesterday, but lets just say it was the worst day of my life and I've never been in so much pain and I was yesterday.

Either way, I was excited to get my list of invites this morning as I didn't get a phone call last night. I didn't have time to freak out last night because of the drama, so.. Yeah. That'll happen tonight. Ha ha.

Anyway, I got my list and it said...

1. Lorelai
2. Paris
3. Lane

I was bummed. The houses I loved, hadn't loved me. Either way, from the advice I've read on Greek Chat, I picked myself up, put on my best smile and trotted over to my first event because these girls wanted me!

Lorelai: After getting here, I was paired up with a sweet girl who led me over to sit and we talked a while. She seemed very distracted and kept looking away while I was talking. I assumed she was looking for “signals” or something and brushed it off. I was picked up by another girl who showed me some boards, then we sat down and talked again. Both girls were super sweet and I loved the boards. All the events seemed so fun and the sisterhood seemed strong! I was taken to the tables where girls were working on projects and I doodled a little bit while making fun of my lack of creative skills. It was funny because the girl I was with was as bad creatively as I was. I was picked up by one more girl, who showed me other boards, then I left feeling like I could see myself being myself with these girls..

Paris: I thought about them a lot the past day and figured out that there was nothing actually wrong with Paris. I had ranked them low because I had listened to tent talk (and there was a lot of it) even though the girls were really sweet. Either way, I was picked up by a really sweet girl who I could picture myself being friends with and she showed me all the boards and events and sisterhood! It was amazing! I was falling in love with this house. I was taken to another room to the do philanthropy project and did a little bit while the girl I was with bombarded me with facts about their cause. I really love their philanthropy as I have a personal connection to it (somewhat) so I was loving all the info! I loved this house.

Lane: I wasn't looking forward to this house, honestly. I was so intimidated by all the uniform girls (tall, thin, and gorgeous. I actually told my boyfriend, “Picture photo-shopped girls in magazines. Now put them in the Lane house.”) that I was really confused as to why I was invited back. Either way, I was paired up by this awesome girl who I loved! We talked about our dogs and how much she missed hers, we then got on the boyfriend topic (we both kept trying to get off it, but we kept going back to it) and were laughing about how our boyfriends love video games. After that another girl came up and asked, “Would you like to go see our boards and the project?” I agreed, because so far, while it was really fun to relax and talk to this girl, I wanted to see the boards as well. I thanked them both and we made our way to the boards. Only thing is, we didn't actually go to them. We ended up stopping in the room where they were, but didn't go to them. I thought this was odd as the time was almost up, but I figured maybe they really liked me and just wanted to talk to me instead.

At the end of the day, I ranked like this:

1. Paris
1. Lorelai
1. Lane