After we left the Starfruit house,
Marie caught up with me and was bantering on and on about how when she became a Starfruit, she would win over all the older sisters and would surely have a position as an officer her second semester. I could not believe the ridiculous things that were coming out of her mouth! I am honestly not one to judge, but this girl was SO cocky. A whole bunch of nasty things occurred to me that I could potentially say, but all I said was “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket – you don’t want to write all the houses off just yet. Anyway, I thought that you thought
Strawberry was worthy of you, too.” I said with with a bit of sarcasm, but I was genuinely confused as to why she would write off such a great sorority. At this, she rolled her eyes and ran to find
Rachel.
When we got back to the meeting place, my Rho Chi told us we would only be returning to a max of 11 houses. I was a little startled that we would be making cuts so soon, but I realized that Rush would go on
forever if we didn’t narrow it down quickly. And anyway, I had a good idea of how I wanted to rank the houses…
- Peach
- Strawberry
- Cherry
- Starfruit
- Watermelon
- Pineapple
- Cantaloupe
- Mango
- Honeydew
- Plum
- Grape
- Kiwi
- Banana
- Blueberry
I didn't have much difficulty ranking the houses. Luckily for me, there were exactly three I knew for certain I would never want to return to. You might be wondering why I kept
Grape instead ofKiwi. Why replace Kiwi, an obviously well respected house, with Grape, a tiny, floundering local? Well, I think in the end, I really wanted to give
Grape a fair shot. I thought about certain people in my Rho Chi group and how they might treat a struggling chapter, and I resolved not to be like that. I was determined to give them a fair hearing and experience all they had to offer - because maybe I would thrive in a smaller sorority.
I talked to Jena after I had handed in my card. She had cut the same houses as I had, with the exception of Banana, which she replaced with Grape. Rachel and Mariehad both cut Honeydew, Grape and Mango. Honeydew because they were known as the academic house, apparently, Grape because of their size, and Mango because they refused to be in a "fat" sorority. I couldn't believe the negative things they had to say about all the houses. I said it, and I'll say it again: I never saw ONE "fat" girl at Mango. To me, they looked healthy and exuberant, and I thought that the ones I saw had quite goof bodies (not that it matters at all about weight and size - I'm just trying to be as honest to the actual account of what happened as possible).
As we were walking out of the room, we were talking about our choices again. I mentioned that Strawberrywas my second ranked house, and, Marie said to me, I quote (I'll never forget this:
"Please. It's not like Strawberrywill invite you back anyway. Not after you monopolized so many of the actives. And anyway, they're like, top-notch. You have to be super gorgeous to get in there."
My jaw dropped. So did Jena's. I could not believe how mean this girl was. It was girls like her that made me hate all girls school so much. If this was the kind of girl that was in a sorority, I wanted nothing more to do with the process.
Hybrid Mode
