Hey, hey, hey,
Once again... this morning came realllllllllll early. Even after an early night of pajammy jam jam sesh, last night Aubs, Katelyn & I (obviously still in delirious sleep deprivation state) went back to our room and laughed for another ohhh 2 hours or so... Aubs got up and showered and Katelyn and I followed suit at around 7:20ish...
The day started with a Starbucks date and we got there before the crowd because we are the Bears... on time = being early. I got a delicious cinnamon cake thing... and then we went to the Greek Boutique where I can not lie I indulged and bought myself a really cute teal sweater... which you will be sure to see me wearing around campus next week. Then we arrived for the morning session and sat in the very front row... because we are Bears :) It's just how we roll...
The morning session was by Phired Up! (the spelling is correct)... a company that specializes in recruitment techniques and I absolutely LOVED it! Katelyn, Jess & I sat next to eachother and the entire time it was like a light bulb kept going off in our heads. He talked about a variety of things regarding recruitment. He taught us techniques to rope people into conversations and the two different types of people in our organizations who he referred to as... the work horse and the mule. The most prominent statement he made was "We can't recruit... who we don't know"... Katelyn's favorite statement was "Greek life is the filet mignon of student organizations".
Ed. Sesh 4 was interesting... it was a variety of techniques on "How to Train the Trainer" with Lori... a fellow Gamma Phi Beta sister!! She taught us how to be effective facilitators in our organizations. It was great to see how a facilitator really should be facilitating. She taught us phrases to avoid to keep people engaged and questions you should be asking to keep the conversations in your teambuilders going.
Our showcase was with Jessica Pettitt on social justice... now before you stop reading... this was a) HILARIOUS! and b) not a normal "social justice" conversation... She was extremely inappropriate in my opinion but so truthful in the reasoning behind her word use. She taught us that social justice should be an evaluation of ourselves and knowing what we are doing... Tracking, Trigger, and Listen were the 3 steps to guarantee that we could be better and stop oppression of people. My favorite thing about Jessica... "We're all a hot mess, its so much easier being someone else than being you".
My Ed. Sesh 5 was about the Forgotten Pillars of Greek Life... and I am sure out of Scholarship, Leadership, Service, and Friendship you can probably guess what 2 I am talking about... yup.. Scholarship and Service. How many times do you hear that "Greeks are dumb" and "Greeks are lazy, all they do is party". This session was dedicated to focusing on new ideas for our chapters by using other's examples. So needless to say, I have some great ideas for our community service chairwoman, Lindsay and our philanthropy chairwoman, Kate and our scholarship chairwoman, Caitlyn... Get ready for some great ideas girls!
The last session I attended was about etiquette and protocol... although it wasn't what I expected it gave me some extremely helpful pointers on how to be more proper and how to look approachable and classy. At the end of the session Shelly told us that we need to Lie, Cheat and Steal... Lie in the arms of those who you love whether it be your big/little sister, family, friends or significant other, Cheat on your diet because, let's be honest, they don't exist and Steal all the kisses you can, whether real or Hershey because you may not know when your first or last kiss may be.
After that session was the closing key note on the whole reason behind our sessions... STOP BEING A BY-STANDER... Do something about it. We are Greeks for a reason; we ask for responsibility, we want the spotlight because we are trying to be better people in society. So if you see something that you know isn't right... say something.
We then had about an hour to get ready for the banquet, which we were obviously early for :) and got good seats for the dinner, awards and comedian. Congrats to all the organizations, campuses, and individuals who won awards! I was not impressed with dinner although Norman was satisfied and the comedian was more of a performer than actual comedian (if that makes sense). He did more tricks than jokes.
On the way back from the banquet we all started to get into our tired mode... if you see MB's facebook photos you'll know what I am talking about. We clearly had to take a nice formally looking picture for everyone to see the important side (which we do while having tons and tons of fun!) and that we looked absolutely FABULOUS again. Thennnnnn we got a little crazy with the escalator pictures and poor Aubree couldn't get down the escalator... Sarah saved her though. Then me and Katelyn obviously reenacted Beauty and the Beast on the beautiful red carpeted stair case in the Convention Center. On the way back MB also got a pensive picture... and then we decided she could totally be a therapist and all delegates acted out the many emotions of Greek life including sad, lonely, perplexed, stressed, etc... you get the picture.
Now we are in our jammy jams again in the lobby, yes the lobby, we look a little silly.
Well, I'm out... I need to stalk the pictures from earlier on Facebook...
PEACE LOVE & GREEK LIFE
-Lexi
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