I just got an e-mail from my bio professor, Mr. Atanassov, and he had some great news! I don't have to take the final! Yeay! Since I will have an A no matter what I make on the final exam it doesn't really matter if I take it or not. So now I don't have to study for biology, I know I got an A, and since I'm not using a scantron I will be helping to save paper! Everyone wins!

So, initiation! It was awesome! I don't know why, but I was so nervous! I think it's because they don't tell us what is going to happen and I don't know what to expect. They lined up all the pledges in a certain order and Alice led us into this dark room. The only light was from a candle at the front table and these candles all over the floor.

We walked in and the actives were all lined up and we all made this huge circle. Then Alice said some words and the president said some words. Then we got called one by one, in the order we were lined up in. We were handed a candle and a certificate. Our big sis's would meet come up to us and take off our pins and put a new gold pin on our shirts.

They did this for all of us. Then, our advisor, who was a WSO president in the 80's read this poem over and over again as we all lit our candles. The chaplin said something about putting your light on a hill and letting it grow and that WSO should be the same way. I thought that was cool. Then we blew out our candles.

Then they handed out best active and best pledge. Our pledge president got best pledge. She was so surprised and I'm really happy for her, she deserved it.

They had all of the new actives (aka pledges) go to the middle and sing the pledge song. And that was that. We are actives! Yeay! And I got a new pin and a white rose (b/c that is our symbol). I also got presents from my sis's. I got bath and body works stuff, a candle, a picture frame, and a big stuffed frog. I gave them bobble head frogs and rocks that I wrote, "you rock" on.

I am a little weirded out by it. It is just one more way that I am grown up. But I am also a little exicted. I feel a little transformed since I started this journey. It was hard and scary at times, but so so so much fun at others. It was so worth it*