I'm officially a REAL sister!

Last weekend was a very important weekend for not only Chi Omega's at ASU, but also for every Chi-O chapter around the nation. It was initiation! I had never been more excited and scared at the same time. I had heard so many rumors that I had no idea what to expect! Come to find out I had worried WAY to much!

Just wanted to share a few stories...

I was sitting in Fine Arts last week bored out of my mind when I recieved a text from one of my best friends...that I had only known for 6 months, yet we had shared so much in such a little time. All week they had been telling us to reflect over our 'new member experience,' I remember thinking "okay I will do that in all my spare time!" But after reading her text asking me to go to the mall with her then to her Aunts to eat I realized I was reflecting over the experience.... They had preached and preached to us about sisterhood and how it was so important and how big of a role this time played in your life when we first set off on our new member experience and once again I didn't believe a word they said. Until this point.

There are 4 girls out of my pledge class that I have became so close to in this short time...I really think we are the only 5 that have became this close...they know more about me than my best friend since pre-school does, they can tell when I am upset, sad, happy, stressed, ready to cry, laugh, missing home, when they should stay away from me, or when I need a simple hug or smile. We have went through the good, the bad, and the ugly already; we have been so mad at each other we could kill each other, but love them the next minute; we have made memories that we laugh at all the time and some we are embarassed about. These girls are the best, without them I honestly think I would be looking at another school to attend in the fall.

Over Christmas break I felt like there was something missing the entire time, but it wasn't a thing, it was my sisters! Everytime I would do or say something stupid or something funny would happen I would find myself running to find my phone so I could call or text them and they would do the same. The last weekend of break two of my best friends came to Stuttgart to see me. I couldn't wait! I had been counting weeks, days, hours, then finally minutes till they got there. When they finally got there I could hardly contain myself I ran outside and we all three embraced in a big group hug! It was the best! We had the best time that night!

Also during Christmas I had on my Chi-O wind breaker and was walking into Mack's when I heard these two hunters behind me, that I had never met before, start talking about Chi Omega. One guy said "You know I have never heard a bad thing said about any of them Chi Omega girls." He had no idea I heard him, but if they wouldn't have thought I was a nut job I would have turned around and hugged him. My heart swelled with pride. I was so overly proud to be a Chi Omega at that point I wanted EVERYONE to hear what they had said. It was so nice to hear two complete strangers say that not knowing I could hear them. (Just had to share that!)

I know that to some this may sound silly and that it is all still so new to me and that is why I feel this way; however, I hope I never lose the pride I have in my soroity. I have already started on the next little Chi-O in the family by giving Tater an owl sleeping bag! haha I had no intention of this getting so long, but it just happened. Sorry! (I have noticed that about both of my entries so far, they get so long before I even realize it!)

Chi Omega Symphony

"To live constantly above snobbery of word or deed; to place scholarshipbefore social obligations and character before appearances; to be in thebest sense democratic rather than "exclusive," and lovable rather than"popular"; to work earnestly, to speak kindly, to act sincerely, to choosethoughtfully that course which occasion and conscience demand; to bewomanly always; to be discouraged never; in a word, to be loyal underany and all circumstances to my fraternity and her highest teachings andto have her welfare ever at heart so that she may be a symphony of highpurpose and helpfulness in which there is no discordant note."
-Ethel Switzer Howard, 1909

(The Chi Omega Symphony was written by a pledge of Xi Chapter at Northwestern University. She wrote the poem in preparation for her initiation and felt that the words exemplified goals to which Chi Omegas aspired.)

Megan, Jasmine, Jordan, Me, & Megan at Chilis granting a wish along with Make A Wish