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Yes, yes... the school I attended first semester of my freshman year was not Bridgewater. (which has only ever had 3 NPCs) Onward towards the end...
Night II: What?!?!?!
I didn’t have early class the next morning, so even though Roomie and I were up late chatting, we weren’t as tired going to our parties the next night. Through our conversation, I learned lots about the supposed reputations of the sororities. I also realized that like everyone else, our top 6 were basically the same except for Share and Harmony being switched around on her list. We were both sure that we wanted to be Love-a-Lots although Bedtime and Funshine seemed really cool too. That night we arrived to get our invitations and noticed that there seemed to be less girls there. Weird. Both of us parted, really confident and excited for another, shorter night.
When I met up with my Rho Chi group, one of the girls in my group was crying. Another was loudly talking about how she had only gotten 4 invites. What?!?!?! How was that possible? We had 6 parties that night, didn't we? No one ever mentioned that you might not get invited to 6 chapters. Everyone talked about you ranking them, but it was never mentioned that the sororities did the same. Oh dear. Now I was nervous. Did I even want to look at my list? It read:
Funshine
Harmony
Cheer
Champ
Bedtime
Share
Wait. Where was Love-a-Lot??!?!?! After standing there puzzled, I located my
Rho Chi who seemed to have her hands full and said I wanted to talk to her. When she got a minute, she came over and I told her there had been a mistake. My first choice wasn’t on my list. She explained gently that sometimes that happened, but I was lucky to get 6 invites and I had an awesome schedule. She asked if I was going to be all right. Oh. Okay. Sure.
Parties started only a few minutes later. This is something that I always have hated – you get invitations and only 10 or 15 minutes later, you have to act happy and cheery. I was determined to go and have fun though, and so off I went.
First up was Funshine. Yay!!! I was paired with my RA. We watched a really cute mini skit and looked at pictures from their installation and talked their new member program. The girl I met yesterday came back and said hi. Their philanthropy project was cute as well. I decided that if I couldn’t be a Love-a-Lot, Funshine was still a definite option.
Next, I went to Harmony. I was still a little bitter about the incident last night and felt awkward here. We talked about their philanthropy and worked on a project for children’s hospital. The girl I talked to afterwards seemed uninterested in me and in being there in general. This cemented my feeling that Harmony just wasn’t the place for me.
The third party of the night was Cheer Bear. I honestly don’t remember this party at all. The girls must have been nice, but I just don’t recall any details. It was at this party that I started to cough… and cough… and cough. I don’t know if I was allergic to something in the room or just catching a cold. But I started to feel horrible.
By the next party at Share Bear, I feeling even worse. My coughing was starting to get uncontrollable and no matter how much water I drank, it didn’t help. My Rho Chi gave me a cough drop in the hall, but I swear that made it worse. At this party, I was super excited to be going back. We were seated around a table making boo-boo bunnies for homeless families (washcloths in the shape of bunnies to put ice cubes in – really cute) and between my coughing and the fact that my bunny didn’t look like a bunny, I was miserable. Everyone at my table was laughing and joking around, except me. One of the girls that was at my table finally asked if I was okay and I started coughing and couldn’t stop. I think that everyone in the room was looking at me and the looks on the faces of the sisters at the table were so disgusted that I wanted to crawl under the table. Oh dear. I couldn’t wait to leave!
In the hallway, my Rho Chi greeted me with a hot cup of tea and I was so excited. As we entered Bedtime Bear, I was hoping that I wouldn’t start coughing again. Of course I did. This time though, my rusher could relate and told me how she almost puked during one of her parties. This made me laugh and I felt so much better. She got me a cup of water to keep with me as we made our project and listened to an explanation of their philanthropies. The girls I had met the previous night stopped by and joked around that maybe I was allergic to them. We had a good laugh and before I knew it, the party was over.
Our final party of the night was Champ Bear. The girls here were all talking about how they had gone on a trip to another school and loved their houses. It was here I made a fatal (at least at the time) mistake. I asked if they had a house. Ut oh. Sore subject, apparently. Their President, who had been talking to us, looked at me and said, “We're too independent for that” and then turned and walked away. Oh dear. At that point, I turned bright red, and although the conversation continued around me, I was too embarrassed to say much else.
After we left that night, my rankings were easy to decide:
Funshine
Bedtime
Share
Harmony
Champ
Cheer
I didn’t know what to do though… so of those chapters I would be mortified to have to return to. But, I knew that I really liked Funshine and Bedtime, so I hoped I would be invited back to them the next time. After talking to Roomie, I realized that my rankings were vastly different. Although she really like Funshine and Bedtime, she had been invited back to Love-a-Lot and also really liked Cheer Bear too. We were excited that we had two groups in common that we really liked and were psyched that we could possibly be sisters... or so we thought...
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Last edited by AnatraAmore; 08-01-2007 at 10:00 PM.
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