Organization dreams....

For years, I have always thought about joining a sorority. It has always been something I wanted to do. I have always had two that I was interested in but one that I really wanted to be apart of. Within the last couple of days, the thought of joining one has came into my mind and I started looking some stuff up. I found a blog by a lady who is in a sorority and she gives tips to aspiring entrants as well as share her experiences. Some of the things you have to do to even be considered to join one is have a gpa of 2.5 and have a background in community service. So this year, I am planning on getting my gpa up by making sure I am getting through my classes with passing grades and I am getting involved with community service. I have actually wanted to be involved with community service and volunteerism but never knew how to go about it. I started looking online for places to volunteer at. I have found 3 places that I plan on volunteering at. I have already sent in applications to 2 places so I just have to wait to hear from them. The other place I plan on volunteering on Saturdays and they have opportunities for one Saturday a month. So before I register I need to make sure I don't have to work that weekend. If I don't, I'll sign up and see how it goes. If I like it, I'll sign up again for next month. The other two places I applied to, one of them I planned on helping one or two Tuesdays a month and the other place I signed up to help on Thursdays and Saturdays, so I can do one or two Thursdays or Saturdays a month. The Tuesday and Thursday one I can just take those days off of work. But that is definitely one of the reasons I would love to be apart of a sorority is the volunteerism. The other reason is the life long friends part. It would be awesome to be able to have friends who would be like family. I already don't have many friends especially friends to go out and do things with or even talk on the phone and confide in. That is something I would love more than anything is to have real true friends. We'll see what happens. I don't plan on trying the sorority thing until the next Spring semester so for now I'll just focus on getting my grades up and volunteering. The one thing that scares me is the having to get a recommendation letter from an active member of the sorority you are interested in. I wouldn't know how I would go about doing that unless I was able to get involved some way on campus and I just happen to meet someone. I don't know how that part is going to play out but I have a while to figure it out. I hope everything works out the best way it can.