New Blog!

Hi!

I felt like making a blog was the perfect way to include everyone in the adventures I will be having this coming year!

So far I have had a great time at training in Indianapolis, IN. It has been non-stop but I have enjoyed it! There are 9 of us consultants and we are all training together for the coming year. Eight of us are new and the 9th is a second year consultant so the majority of us don't know a thing about what is going on - which is nice to not feel alone in being confused.

We are heading in to our second week of training. A usual day consists of waking up at 7:15 (there are five girls in one apartment with one bathroom ... we must all wake up early to shower!), leaving the apartment by 8:30 and arriving at Headquarters (HQ) at 9:00 a.m. We then sit around a boardroom table until 12 when we go get lunch. Then we return and continue until 4:30/5:00 p.m. During this time we usually have speakers come and train us on their area of expertise. They are training us so we can better understand how all areas of the Fraternity (yes, we're called a fraternity even though we're technically a "sorority" because when we were founded the word sorority was not used) work. These areas can consist of: administration, finance, development, recruitment, disciplinary procedures, housing etc. It is all very interesting but I must say that it can become hard to pay attention after awhile.

We eat at restaurants for all of our meals. This may sound great, and it is at times, but it also gets really old after awhile of sitting in restaurants for every lunch and dinner. Two times so far I have made dinner for all 9 of us so we don't have to go out - it's been fun.

Last week we went to a conference (FEA) and met other consultants from other fraternities/sororities. It was fun and great to network with other people doing the same thing. I hear that it can get very lonely on the road and so it's nice to know that there are other people doing the same thing that may be in the same area so we can all meet up at various places in the country.

I got my visit schedule which was very exciting. I am going to: Purdue, Butler, Penn State, Columbia, UC-San Diego, San Diego State, Occidental (Los Angeles), Cal Poly, Eastern Kentucky, Drake (Iowa), Loyola Maramount (Los Angeles), Colorado College, Auburn (Alabama) and Louisiana State University.

I have a list of these schools and I get to sit down and figure out where to go when. This consists of playing a giant puzzle of putting things together and moving them etc. It also consists of a lot of emails and logistics. Unfortunately, we spend so much tim training in the board room that it has been hard to take the time to figure all of this out - but it will come with time.

I do currently know that I am going to Auburn from August 7 - 15 and then LSU the 15-22nd. I think I will take a couple days and go to New Orleans and then head home and then to Eastern Kentucky. We will see how this all plays out.

Well, I hope to keep you updated on everything that happens!

Miss you all!