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I’ve been trying to improve my typography.

So I ask you this:

If there was one [short] quote your sorority typically says, what would it be? I don’t mean your chapter’s motto, but a cute little thing your chapter says.

Examples I’ve found (I don’t know if they’re real or not):

ALPHA CHI OMEGA: Lyre, lyre, pants on fire

ALPHA PHI: Live young, wild, and Phi

So, I have to get gifts for all of exec/advisors… Does anyone have any suggestions?

RECRUITMENT IS OVERRRR :)

Out of all three perspectives (going through, recruiting, and Rho Gamma-ing), I have to say that I like being a Rho Gamma was definitely my favorite!

We got 25 new members, INCLUDING 6 from my Rho Gam group!

Love recruitment, but by the end, I was definitely ready for it to be over (shocking!)

Oh yeah… AND I’M REAFFILIATED AGAINNNNNNNNNN!!

Don’t worry — I haven’t forgotten about this blog…

I just wanted to get back in the groove of school.

Oh ya, and we’re in the middle of recruitement :)

I’ll be back soon, though!

I hope recruitment is going great and I want to hear recruitment stories (good or bad)!

Day 5 of Rho Gamma Training…

So, [yesterday] was the last day of Rho Gamma training.

I’m getting very nervous, actually. You can only do so much with scenarios, practices, etc. The real thing is going to be so much different, and I really hope that I won’t do something wrong…

I know all the songs by heart. I love them all! I feel so accomplished having them all down! I think my favorite songs are DG, Theta, AXO, and Pi Phi, but I really do love all of them!

House tours are so much fun! Most of the girls who are giving me tours are doing pretty well, which I love to see. It’s always nice to give feedback, too, since they can only grow with more practice. I went on a tour of my own house and a new recruiter gave me a tour, and I was just so proud!

7 more days until recruitment starts.

17 more days until I’m affiliated again.

Anyway, long story short: I CANT WAIT FOR RECRUITMENT.

Day 4 of Rho Gamma Training…

I know 8/10 songs by heart now! And, I can even sing the really fast parts in some of them! There’s just two I don’t know. One is because she just sang it today, and didn’t even give us the words or anything to look at… and the other is because the girl in that chapter didn’t even know her own song… Ya… I should just ask my friend in that house to tell me.

We mostly learned how the voting system works.

AND we got another one of our shirts. It’s a tank top and super cute. LOVE IT!

I went on my first mock house tour today. It was fun! I was the “shy pnm”, which forced them to do most of the talking, which I think is a really good skill to have. They were pretty good, but I did end up having some pointers.

Kind of a boring day today… Lots of just sitting and listening. Tomorrow is the last day of training before PR stuff and the actual thing. Gets me kind of nervous, actually.

I FREAKING LOVE RECRUITMENT.

Day 3 of Rho Gamma Training…

Day 3 was another success!

Only one Ice Breaker today! YAYYY!

We have learned all the other songs today! Not gonna lie — there are a few I had A LOT of problems with! A little too fast for me… But then I realized how much trouble I was having with my own songs when I was a sophomore, so I think practice will help. Honestly, a few of the songs I like better than my own songs **singing songs inside head**

I just have to say I LOOOOOVE my Rho Gamma group!! We practiced our roles and we were the only group that had come up with a strategy over just doing our jobs… Ya. That’s how cool we are.

I, once again, won candy for knowing the colors of sororities. I feel so proud :)

Tomorrow, I get to go to mock house tours. I decided upon going to one of the houses that I haven’t seen the inside before. Honestly, I am very excited to see it. It looks BEAUTIFUL from the outside. Although I hate to say it, it is my chapter’s rival chapter on campus. We are next-door neighbors, and not everyone in our chapters are panhellenic people.

Last night was tough. I was hanging out with some of my sisters, and we all wanted to get some ice cream… I obviously let everyone go, but it was sad to see them leave without me. I find this part very hard. It has been even harder than I had ever thought it would be.

PLUS, all my sweatshirts say my letters, so it’s very hard to find a clothes to wear in the cold building.

I don’t know what else to say for the day, except that as recruitment gets closer, I get more and more excited.

Wish me luck with DAY 4!

And good luck to all the rest of the chapters practicing for recruitment!

Day 2 of Rho Gamma Training…

I love being a Rho Gamma.

Today we learned some of the songs and, let me tell you, some of them are HARD. I give so much more credit to those chapters! (Although, I’m sure I was having problems at first with my songs… I just don’t remember because I know them by heart now…)

I love my Rho Gamma group! Everyone is so chill and we all get along really well. I love how we are in separate chapters, but we still get along so well. It’s nice to know that these women are Panhellenic, rather than specific-chapter oriented.

We also got one of our shirts! I LOVE IT!!! I can’t wait until we get the other two shirts and sweatshirt… And I can’t wait to see my chapter’s Bid Day shirt!

More Ice Breakers, but I suppose it’s good because now I am starting to learn the names of other Rho Gammas. We did that game where you put an adjective in front of your name, then you had to go around the whole circle saying everyone’s adjective and name. Unfortunately, I was usually towards the back, and I am terribly awful at remembering people’s names.

We also played a chapter-trivia game. I actually won a few of the ones because I knew colors/symbols/etc from making these graphics!

It was a very good training day.

Granted, sitting in my room with everyone singing below me was sad… and my sisters were giving house tours and I was just sitting in my room pretending I wasn’t there. I wanted to give tips and everything, but I knew that would defeat the purpose of disaffiliation.

21 days until I’m reaffiliated.

With all that being said, BRING ON DAY THREE!

Day 1 of Rho Gamma Training…

Lots of Ice Breakers… I’m terribly shy and so that part wasn’t the most fun…

BUT I’m now even more excited for recruitment than before!!!! (Believe it or not, that is possible!)

I meet my co-Rho Gams tomorrow!

Overall, good day.

Let’s see how good tomorrow is, when my chapter starts recruitment training and I’m going to have to sit out :’(

Haha anyway, good luck everyone! Tell me recruitment stories!

23 Days until I’m Re-Affiliated!

YAY!!!

How is recruitment going?

For those of you who have not yet started recruitment training yet, have fun!

For those of you who have been recruitment training, I hope your voices aren’t gone!

For those of you who are Rho Gammas, Rho Alphas, or Rho Chis, I hope you’re surviving disaffiliation!

For those of you who are currently recruiting, good luck!

For those of you who have already had bid day, congratulations!

I would love to hear recruitment stories!

Who got total? Who made quorum?

When does everyone go back?

It’s almost recruitment time!

When does everyone move back?

When do recruitment workshops start?

How many of followers are recruitment guides?

I LOVE RECRUITMENT (if you couldn’t tell…)

one last thought on my rant earlier…

It’s a FRATERNITY, not a “frat”.

It’s a SORORITY, not a “soror”.

If you think about it, do you call a country, a “count”?

I thought not.

Each individual sorority is called a “chapter”, not a “house”.

Don’t be disrespectful.

Especially since Greeks are so proud to be Greek.