Cdale Recruitment

Well it was a loooong weekend to say the least! I arrived in Carbondale on Thursday (or would it be considered Fri morning?) at around 3am. I had left around 4pm and got stuck in traffic and had to stop in at EIU to drop some shirts off to my brother. While it was going to be a quick trip in my other brother was in town as well for his battle buddy's commissioning so i went over to the VFW and stopped in for a couple drinks. It was a nice way to break up the trip for me so I can't complain. Now when I stopped to see Eric he was still at training so I had to walk up to his fraternity house and wait for the guys to come and get me. I ran in and dropped the clothes off and then went to my car and waited for Eric to return. While waiting some of his brothers pulled up and luckily one of them knew me so I didn't look like a total creeper! Eric arrived and I walked into the house with him to many cat calls and suggestive phrases, all in good fun of course. Eric had to keep explaining that I was his sister and not some random girl that came in off the streets. he quickly ushered me out the door, almost pulling me at times and I just laughed and told them all I would be back soon. And back on the road I went. I arrived in Carbondale and went to see my buddy Woody at his bar and caught up on some gossip while watching a fight at teh bar. I mean really I just don't see the point of fighting anymore!

Ok so I arrive at the house and walk into my room that has 2 futons in it and am a little confused but I am tired so I don't care and just pass out in the little box that the sorority likes to call home!! I slept well considering I never sleep well if it is not my house and waited for my little Snooki's arrive. The girl looks like a cross between Snooki and a Kardashian but she does Snooki's awful waaaahhhhhing sound so she is now Snooki. She arrived around 1pm and we basically started getting ready for the sorority recruitment to start. We received our Betsey Johnson style shirts and waited for the rushes to arrive. Now if you are not a part of the Greek system it is hard to understand that thrill you receive knowing some of these girls will be your future sisters! As alumni members we are not allowed to speak to the girls or interact in anyway so we had to stand there and take their name cards in silent which is really hard to do since the 2 of us are such big talkers! Basically this is how it went all night for the remainder of recruitment. We did not go out Friday night because we had to wait for lists to arrive and instead went and got Don Taco. It was fantastic and everything I hoped for. We went to bed shortly after talking to a bunch of the girls and getting to know them. I love these little doves they cracked our shit up all day/night.

Saturday started early and ended around 4ish so we got done with the formal side of things and decided to go out. Now the active members in each chapter are not allowed to go out so as we were getting ready I saw a hint of longing in their eyes and felt bad. I felt even worse because I actually did not want to go out at all. We headed to the bar I use to work at and met up with some old friends. Drinks came and shots were poured and it was a fun time. At the end we stayed and I got into it with the manager over something stupid but I was apparently very passionate about it. At one point Woody looked at me and said it's time to go, but I didn't think i was that bad. There was a girl there who looked like an emo lumberjack and decided to get in on the conversation where she had no place. The bitch probably follows some lame band who had a 5 person following and can't get a gig and thinks she knows music, way to go dumbass, i guarantee you think guys in tighter pants then you are hot to, fail. So we left the bar and walked down college street and stopped into the theta xi house where we let ourselves walk around and see things that jogged our memories. So after stalking little KE we decided to go home. We succinctly passed out after a long deep convo til 5 am, I apologize to any of the girls who heard our convo. So we had to be up and ready by about 10:30am which means to wake up around 9, well I think the second day in a row eating Don Taco was a bad idea.

I awoke at 7:30 and was sick to my stomach and threw up everything that was in me for the past 2 days. I then was back in there around 9 and was in so much pain I couldn't move. I slept for another hour and got up to get ready. I put on my formal attire and sat in the room with the other girls and our FC. I kept having to run to the bathroom so didn't even get to go check on the girls. Luckily I think panera saved my life that day. I know some girls thought I was hungover but it was genuinely a sickness, hungover i could have powered through but not this one! So the first half of the day ended and then the second half began. We waited for our new members to arrive and did our sisterhood circle and welcomed them to the house. Melissa and I both had tears in our eyes because it is touching to see new girls so excited to be apart of something that we loved and hold close to our hearts.

Snooki left shorty after and I decided to stay another night since it was late. i hung out with the girls til 3am and heard funny stories and they taught me new terms such as facebook purgatory which means you have someone pending a friend request and they are in purgatory and some others that I can not reveal on here due to the laws of the house! So we exchanged youtube videos, watched the evolution of a transgendered female to male, and I told them stories from my day. I was sad to leave the next day but have to get back to the real life at some time. It was a long drive home and I am pretty sure I slept for 12 hours and have been getting my voice back since this weekend kicked my butt! So that was my trip down memory lane and I am so happy I got to go and meet all these incredible women and now have tons more facebook friends :)