Wednesday, September 4, 2013

The Big, The Little and The Reveal

After you go through Rush (or Open Recruitment) you will at some point get a big sister. I don't know how every organization does this (or my organization for that matter, I only know what we did), but typically the choosing of bigs and littles are the same but the reveal is different.

I have seen so many different big/little reveal ideas, but I'm just going to walk you through what we did. We had a mixer between the new members and the initiated sisters who were taking littles at the time. After we kind of got to know one another, someone matched up big sisters and little sisters... I don't know the actual process of how things were done. Anyway, then we finally had our reveal.

Each new member was given a color (of course mine was pink) and we were escorted into the chapter room. We were instructed to "choose a weapon" because the floor was covered in balloons. Inside of one of these balloons there was a piece of paper revealing the name of our big sister. After I popped my first balloon, a piece of paper fell out, but I just kept popping balloons because I didn't want to ruin the fun and excitement. One of the initiated sisters looked me in the eye and said, "Erin, your big put a piece of paper in EVERY balloon." Every place I had popped a pink balloon, there was a small piece of white paper. I gathered them up and continued to pop balloons and collect pieces of paper. I finally sat down in the middle of the chapter room and went through each slip one by one. Each of them said "Try again." FINALLY I found the piece of paper that revealed my big sis. I literally attacked her. She was so scared, it was hilarious.

My big/little reveal was so much fun and I can't wait to see what our New Member chair has in store for us this semester. I also can't wait until I get to have a little sister. It's such a special bond and a special time for each initiated sister. Recruitment and rush really renew your love for your organization!

Here are me (left) and my big sis (right) on the night of big/little reveal!

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