Memoir Topic #3....Bid Day!

Coming to college should be the most exciting day in a young womans life, but i would have to disagree with that general assumption. I believe that bid day or joining a sorority, is absolutely the most exciting/amazing day in a young woman's life! Waiting with 200 other girls waiting to find out which sorority they have been accepted too, very nerve racking, but very worth it. You hold that bid card in your hand which feels like an eternity to everyone, it felt like it was burning a hole in my hand because i was so anxious to see which sorority i would get to be a part of. I was antsy to see which 70 new sisters were going to be mine. Whenever they told us that we could open our bid cards, i couldn't hardly wait! I tore into mine without hesitation and i glanced at the name that i thought had been a mistake. I doubled checked, and then plastered a big, fake smile on my face to let noone in that auditorium see the disappointment in my face. I had gotten my "back-up sorority", the one that i had chosen just in case i didn't get the one that i really wanted. I held the tears back as i called my mom telling her that i got Kappa Delta, and her reassuring voice on the other end of the phone mixed with a little bit of comfort was the one thing that started the tears to swell up in my eyes. She said that there must have been a mistake but there was also i reason that i got this one, and to just make the best of the situation like i had always been taught my whole life. I listened to her advice and told her that i would call her later and that i was just going to act excited and see where it led me. Bid day is always slightly awkward because you don't really know that many people and you are meeting 70 girls at once, plus the 30 that you just ran out the doors with into the arms of your new loving sisters. I spend bid day as the shy girl, which is never what i had been considered so there was obviously something wrong. I decided that my mom was right, that there was some reason that i had been put in this sorority and i was going to stick it out and love my new sisters with all my heart. Looking back now i know why i was put in this sorority. To form a family away from mine that is going to look over and protect me while i'm away at college. To give me not only life long friends, but lifelong sisters that are going to love me and not judge me no matter what. And to find my best friends, not the ones that i'm going to spend endless nights crying with, or the ones that i'm going to laugh and have fun with, but the ones that i'm going to share my deepest secrets with, the ones that i know are going to be in my wedding someday and i cannot wait for the future with all of these ladies. I have enjoyed every minute that i have put into this sorority and i continue to grow as a person the more that i am around all of my sisters. This was the best decision of my life!