Hola! We just had our elections for the upcoming year, and we voted on every position! This means that I will no longer be Vice President of Intellectual Development, but my good friend Katrina is my "successor"! I'm excited for her. However, I did get elected to another Exec position, and so now I'm Vice President Panhellenic Delegate. Panhellenic is the umbrella organization that is in charge of most of the national sororities and sets all the rules and such for them. On campus, Panhellenic organizes Greek-wide events for all the sororities and fraternities to participate in, to better unite everyone, instead of just individual houses. My position means I have to attend a meeting every Monday at 3, where we'll organize events, discuss issues, etc. It's a relatively easy position, and I'm excited for it. I enjoyed being on Exec, so I'm happy to be on it again!
I also was voted into another position, Sophomore Member at Large. I'm kind of the representative for my Pledge Class (although we're not allowed to use the term 'Pledge' anymore, Nationals considers it a form of hazing!). On top of the Sunday night meetings I have to attend for Exec, I now have to stay an hour longer and go to the CRS meetings. CRS is held downstairs in our chapter room, and if you get in trouble, or are having certain issues, you go into CRS to discuss it. I'm going to be pretty busy with my new AXO positions but I'm glad to do it too!
This last week, I had to host a sorority-wide Teacher Appreciation Night, where all the girls could invite their teachers to come and have pie and ice cream with the lovely ladies of Greek Row. I was in charge of getting all the sororities involved in it, delegating which house would bring what, making a million copies of invitations (I had my assistant make the flier!), and picking up all the Marie Callender's pies...honestly, the hardest part was getting girls to invite teachers and decorating the house. I should have taken a picture of how I set it up, but everything went so quickly that I didn't have time! I just set up three tables: One had the milk and water and utensils on it, the second table had all the pies (apple, banana cream, razzleberry, peach) and the third table was decorated with pictures, T-shirts, and other knick-knacks the sororites set up to show off their chapter and the events that they do. It was a good way for teachers to get to know what Greek life is all about. We had a turn-out of 7 teachers, which was far better than last year's turn out. Last year, we only had one teacher turn up! Talk about awkward! I'm really happy with how it went. It was a nice event and I think everyone enjoyed it (at least they enjoyed the pie! You can't go wrong with Marie Callender's!).
School is starting to wrap up....I don't have anymore tests until Finals on December 16th. I only have two finals this year, and can you believe that they're both on the same day??!! Stats and Anatomy on the same day. Not fair. I'm going to get a hard start on Anatomy. That's going to be one crazy final.
Well, I feel like I've written an essay, here are a couple of pictures for your viewing enjoyment!
This is me with a Kappa Sigma, Steve, at our Philanthropy event, Burgers and Babes. We served hamburgers, fries, and milkshakes and invited all the sororities and fraternities to raise money for our philanthropy, which is Domestic Violence Awareness. We raised $1,000 this night!
This is me with my Little, Katie, in our CUTE AXO sweatshirts! I love the way they turned out! [Thanks, Mom!]
