Very Vera Recruitment!

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Originally Posted by WCsweet<3

For your last house in your first house visits, did you mean to write paprika?

Bahaha!!! Yes, I did! I knew I shouldn't have but the two Ps next to each other! Thank you for catching that

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After a great first day of Recruitment, I woke up bright-eyed and bushy tailed the next day ready to take on round 2. I went over to UCF and met up with my Rho Gamma to get my schedule. I was ready to meet new girls from my top choices and fall more in love with them. My Rho Gamma looked through all of the teeny tiny slips of paper until she found mine and handed it to me. My mood instantly fell. Instead of seeing a full, or even half full schedule, I was dropped from every single sorority but two: Very Berry Paisley and Suzani. I was crushed. Never in my naive little brain did I think so many sororities would drop me. Because Very Berry Paisley was my first house from the day before, I had easily forgot that I liked them a lot and Suzani was my last house from the first round, so I knew I hadn't meshed well. I told as much to my Rho Gamma and she asked me what I wanted to do. I told her I still wanted to go to the parties to see what would happen. She encouraged me to do so and told me to come back at the end so I could vote.

So off I went to Very Berry Paisley not in the best of moods. Instantly I heard girls complaining about how houses they didn't like had invited them back over other houses, which made me feel even worse because they had full schedules while I didn't even get a chance to have anyone else but two sororities get to know me. They were soon calling our names to have us go and cluster up once more. So I put on a smile and made my way over to the group of girls. We once again did their chant a few times and they opened up the door and ushered us in. The screaming and cheering put me in a better mood already because I could tell how happy all of these sisters were. After everything was done we started talking about finances which was kind of boring, but I guess it was necessary. I didn't really, really connect with this girl, but she wasn't anything horrible. They then passed us off to another set of sisters who were waiting for us to talk about their philanthropy and to do the craft. We watched a video and I immediately fell in love with this sorority. There national and local philanthropies are things that are VERY VERY close to my heart. Instantly my entire day turned around. The girl I was talking to was great and she said she reminded me of a her roommates who were sisters of Very Berry Paisley and that made me even more happy. I walked out with a huge grin on my face and thinking I had just found my future sisters.

I grab my stuff and was off to Suzani. After my first party, I knew that things were going to have to go really well with this house if they were going to top Very Berry Paisley. Their door song was extremely cute and things were looking bright for Suzani! The girl that was rushing me asked if I wanted to do the craft, which of course I said sure to because who doesn't love to craft! We got to talking and I was very happy that I was having a good conversation with a sister there! It was just about the time when I was finishing the craft that they played a video for their philanthropy and the girl I was talking to (along with all of the other sisters the PNMs were talking to) stepped back to the back of the room. We watched the video which was really cute and about something I had no clue existed! So that was a plus. After the video a new sister came up and started talking to me. After we got through the usual questions, things got awkward. It was her first time doing formal recruitment from either side because she had joined in the previous spring. All of her answers were very short and she really didn't have anything to say to me. She asked if I wanted to do the craft and I told her I had already done one and she kind of looked like she didn't know what to do next. I didn't want to go talking this girl's head off like I did with the girl yesterday so we just kind of sat in a little silence until they started playing the music for us to leave. It was at that point that the girl decided to ask if I had anymore questions. I smiled and told her that I didn't. I was the first one out the door. I really could not have gotten away faster. I knew this house wasn't the right fit at all.

I went to my Rho Gamma to circle to "vote" for the two houses and told her about my parties. She told me that I could just circle Very Berry Paisley if I wanted to. While I was tempted to do so, I felt like maybe that if I talked to an active who had been around the Recruitment circuit before at Suzani, that I might end up liking them more. So I circled both and went home to shower and change!

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I was a little more nervous going into this round because I now knew nothing was a guarantee. I didn't get the dreaded call from my Rho Gamma, so I knew that at least one of my two had asked me back and I was just hoping that Very Berry Paisley was on my list. And they were! It was only them, but I didn't care. I was head over heals with this sorority that there was no sting from being dropped. My Rho Gamma said she was really excited for me because she knew I really liked them. I could not get the smile off of my face!

I went to the tent to wait until it was time to go to the party and heard girls, once more, talking about how they were invited back to sororities they didn't like and kept trying to drop. I turned around and told them that everyone should be grateful for the parties they had because this was my only party of the day. I think it sobered them up a little because they stopped complaining after that. We soon made our way over to the doors and were chanting the chant and I was smiling like a loon. Very Berry Paisley is famous for the door chant they did on this day and it was every bit as adorable as I thought it would be. After their door song, we made our way inside and I was paired off with another PNM and an active. The sister led us to some chairs where we sat down and she made her way to join the other sisters around the room. They then played their video for us. Which, of course, I cried because everything about it was perfect and I so knew that this was where I was meant to be. After the video ended, our rusher took us out to the front room where we started talking and I quickly learned that the PNM I was paired with and I had nothing in common. She was a sophomore, I was a freshman. She moved around a lot and didn't really do many extracurriculars in high school, whereas I have lived in the same house all my life and was in oodles of activities in high school. I could see that the conversations were going to have to be made in turns. While the sister was asking me questions, the other PNM made no move to join the conversation which I thought was strange. When the sister tried to bring her in, I tried to keep in the conversation so I would not be forgotten, but because of the lack of similarity, I was simply grasping for nothing. Towards the end of the party, the sister tried to have us talk to another sister, but the music soon started. Since we were right by the doors, people started walking out, but the sister and the PNM we had just joined were talking about how Big/Littles worked in the house and I that was something I had really wanted to talk about. I got a brief answer and was soon being guided out the doors. I left feeling really, really good about Very Berry Paisley and was so excited for Pref Knight (purposefully spelled with a K) and Bid Day!