The responsible response

Wednesday, August 27, 2008
I love my job! And I love the girls from this chapter. They are super sweet and fun and I just wish I could stay here all year long and be their personal LC. They’re all at a party right now and they tried very hard to get me to go with them, but that’s not really appropriate. They assured me that I didn’t have to drink with them and promised not to take any pictures with me so I wouldn’t get caught but I still declined. Way to go me for being responsible. I might go out with them this weekend though. The party tonight was a fraternity party but this weekend they’re going to a concert at a local pub. I think that’s a bit different since only girls who are 21 can go and it’s not affiliated with the school or Greek life at all. I still don’t plan on drinking with them (it’s not against the rules for us to do so, but it’s recommended that we don’t).

I am really excited! I found out tonight that ASA has decided to expand at Texas A&M in Kingsville in the spring. That’s in district 7, one of the districts that I’m working with, so I think that I’m going to be in charge of it! I should find out for sure tomorrow when I have my conference call with Amber. I don’t know yet if they already have an interest group or a local sorority set up or if we’ll be starting from scratch there the same way we did at Clayton state. It’s exciting either way, even if it’s not me that get’s to go! That’ll be possibly 3 colonies we get to install as chapters in the 2008 year!

I found out today that the campus I’m on now has decided to let me use the wireless internet on campus while I’m visiting, so I’m going tomorrow morning to get that all set up. It’ll be nice to get to use my own computer to do things and not have to pretend to be the chapter president and use the computer lab on campus. I don’t really have a whole lot going on in my life now that I’m on the road. My days (and nights for that matter) consist of hanging out with the chapter girls, mostly in meetings. I think we’ve got some fun things planned for this weekend and they don’t have school on Monday, so hopefully I’ll have something more fun to write about then.

I talked to Miss Nicole on the phone for 45 minutes tonight! I’m so proud of myself since I’m not that big of a phone person. The only people I usually talk to on the phone are John, and occasionally Hannah and Elaine. And now that John has run off to India I don’t imagine I’ll be doing much of that with him anymore. I’m really glad that Nicole and I did end up building a friendship, but talking to her made me sad. She’s still in GA until Sunday and the AKL guys are all still there and now they’re staying in the same hotel as Nicole. I’ve also become pretty good friends with one of the guys (Corey) and between emailing back and forth with him and talking to Nicole, I’m bummed that they’re all there getting to hang out and I’m here without them. Every time I call Nicole she puts me on speaker phone and they all yell hello. It’s nice to feel missed. And I am thoroughly enjoying my time here, so I guess it could be worse. I’m really looking forward to my vacation in October! It’s still more than a month away, but it’s starting to get closer and I know that I’m going to be DYING to see my friends and family by the time it rolls around.

I’m starting to struggle with eating healthy now that I have to depend on the chapter women to feed me. They’re constantly taking me out to eat and not at very healthy places so I’m struggling with ordering healthy things and with portion control. I’m going to try and start doing better with that tomorrow though. We’ll see how it goes!