A Funny Thing Happened

For the second year now I have worked at the Iowa State Fair for the Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association. Through this job, I met Brooke who owns the business that I worked for during Ragbrai as well as a another family who has asked me to work at their farmers market booth in the fall. This job has been such a blessing, and while it's a long ride, "you can do anything for 11 days."

This year, because of when school starts, I actually am missing formal recruitment for my sorority. Now since we're non-facility and for a couple of other reasons that I don't quite understand, we don't actually participate in what most sororities call "formal recruitment" but we are allowed to have a booth set up and that gives us the chance to get our group out there among the other big names. We usually only draw one or two ladies from this process, but it's still worth it for even just those few. 

While it's not a huge deal that I'm missing this event, it was still a chance to see all of my sisters again before school starts up and an opportunity to meet some new possible members. I was on Snapchat yesterday looking at some of the girls' stories and I suddenly realized- I was and I am a part of that community, whether I'm here or there. I didn't have to sit here and feel forlorn and left out, those girls were my sisters and friends and very soon I would be seeing them again. 

I'm not sure why this realization seems so important to me, but I really can't wait to get back to campus tomorrow and start this new year. Change is in the air, and I have to believe that it's only uphill from here.