Originally Posted by seisanne
Philanthropy Night
I went to go see my Rho Chis for the start of all of the parties. When I got my schedule, it was folded in half so I could see 3 parties on it, all ones I liked. But I opened it up and all I saw was
Italian
Afrikaans
German
What?! No more?! Only three?! What happened? I thought that early cuts would all be for grades, and I knew I wouldn’t have a problem with that. I thought I had really great conversations with nearly everyone I’d talked to yesterday. I kind of understood not getting asked back to Dutch and Spanish, but where were French and Japanese? I thought I’d connected with them. I don’t know what happened. I felt really hurt, and felt like they didn’t like me and I hated not knowing why. But after some consultation with my Rho Chis and fixing my contacts so I would stop crying, I jumped right into my first party.
Italian: I was afraid I’d fall apart during this party because I was still emotional. But I walked in with a smile on my face and after hearing the sister explain the philanthropy thoroughly, I had a great conversation with her and with the girl who bumped her. And I did a little craft-sort-of-thing just as the party ended, which was nice. I think overall I really really like this group. And their chapter room was decorated amazingly, as an added note. This philanthropy could also be something really important to me.
Afrikaans: I was so happy to be invited back to Afrikaans’ philanthropy day! I could be very passionate about this philanthropy. And their room was decorated very cute in the theme of their philanthropy. I loved this party, and the craft, and the video. I also had a better time talking to this sister. I keep having a better and better experience with Afrikaans. The sister seemed to like me, but I couldn’t tell if she really did like me or if she was acting like it. I don’t know. The way she interacted with me wasn’t what I’d experienced with other houses. Maybe that’s a good thing. She also asked a few things that made me a little uncomfortable: she asked what other parties I had to go to, and since I only had 3 I felt kind of uncomfortable saying. But I told her. She also asked, “So do you like Afrikaans?” which was something I might have expected more from Prefs or maybe Sisterhood night. But, I did like them. So I told her that I liked them, and that they’ve always been on my radar. I felt weird being asked those things but still I have a really good feeling about this chapter and had an awesome party here.
German: I was really excited for this party since I loved these girls yesterday. But unfortunately they didn’t thrill me the way they had before. The first sister I talked to I wasn’t really clicking with, but thankfully I got bumped. The second sister I clicked better with, but she didn’t seem to know what to say after my responses to her questions, so she would reply to them with the same response every time. I wasn’t too bothered with it, but it made me feel like she wasn’t listening even though she was. We did a craft here as well, which was nice. While their philanthropy is a very important one, it’s not one that I have personal experience with, so I didn’t click with their philanthropy video as well as the others’. But, I still like this group a lot and hope they invite me back again.
Since I only had 3 houses left, on the bright side I did not have to rank any groups low, since tomorrow is four-party day (or, y’know, hopefully at least one party). And I liked them all. I just had been having a lot of trouble “ranking” them in my head (I can’t really rank yet, especially since I have so few parties now.) So I talked to my Rho Chi and felt a little better about it. But then I called my mom. And while she didn’t tell me “do this” or “do that”, having me bounce off her and having her ask some questions back was so helpful, and helped me figure out why I like each of them, I suppose. She also helped calm my worries about not receiving a bid at all, which I am still very worried about. But I suppose all I can do is hope I get parties back and try to have some amazing conversations with sisters at whichever of these 3 ask me back.
So after today and talking to my mom and Rho Chi, I would rank them:
Afrikaans
Italian
German
But thankfully I don’t have to rank them at all! After being cut so heavily today I will be ecstatic if even one group invites me back.
|
Hybrid Mode
