Catching up on the last month...

So it has been quite some time since I last blogged. Since my last blog I have been at Florida Gulf Coast for a large majority of the time.

This past weekend I was able to come home. On my flight home, I met some of the cast of Duck Dynasty!! I got my picture too! While I was home, Cody and I went to see the King himself live in concert, George Strait. Let me tell you, that was the most fun I have ever had at a concert. There is a reason they call him the King.

I left out again Monday to travel to Southeastern Louisiana University! I was there until today, and I absolutely loved it. The chapter was such great hosts, and they took extra good care of me. I was able to visit New Orleans one day too and see Cafe Du Monde and St. Charles Cathedral. I also ate authentic Cajun food!

While at SELU, I was also introduced to beignets, and boy are they YUMMY!! I also tried crawfish with the lovely advisers at this chapter. They took me out to a nice dinner and taught me how to peel crawfish and eat them, and also had me try my first oysters. Their current chapter adviser, April, was a past chapter consultant, so it was nice to meet someone who understands my job and relates to me. She is so great for their chapter, and I loved going to dinner with her and Lorraine!

Today I headed out for McNeese State University in Lake Charles, LA. Not before SELU supplied me with two more t-shirts to add to my collection! :) We drove here, and I am just getting settled in. I have a busy weekend of meetings ahead, and then on Sunday I head back to Florida Gulf Coast for the rest of the semester!

I only have a little over 6 more weeks as a consultant. WOW!! Time has flown. Not to mention I recently found out I have a grad school interview with Belmont Occupational Therapy on March 15th! Please pray for me and wish me luck! And I have to give a big shout out to my amazing boyfriend on getting a job this week. Life is good, y'all!

That's all for now. Here are a few pictures I took while at SELU!

Formal Pledging at Alpha Psi

St. Charles Cathedral in New Orleans

Alpha Psi Chapter

Campus Sign

Up here in Raven Country!

Hi everyone! So since my last post, I have been up at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. I took off on my flight from South Florida in 83 degree weather and landed in 30 degree weather here! BURR! What better time to come though, than right after the Ravens won the Superbowl? I must admit I am not a huge Ravens fan, but since they are AFC I was rooting for them! I have seen more purple in the past few days than I ever did at TTU! HA!

I have been here visiting during our Phi Gamma Chapter of Phi Mu's spring recruitment. I was so excited I was able to be here for all four rounds of recruitment, and tonight is the final night, preference. The girls have been so enthusiastic, and I absolutely loved getting to know them.

I tell you though, everywhere I go here... as soon as I speak, the first thing people say is "You're not from around here are you? You're from the South." Happened to me today, and all I did was ask for my wheat bread toasted! I must have one strong accent! :)

I am so sad that I will not get to stay here for Bid Day tomorrow night, but I am excited to head home tomorrow for a few days with the friends and family! The only downfall is that I have a ton of things to do while I am home, one of them being the GRE! UGH! Hopefully this will be my last time taking it though. I am just thankful that I get to be home with my honey on Valentine's Day, and I also get to be home for my momma's birthday! Being away from home makes you appreciate the little things thats for sure.

That's all for now y'all! I am not sure where I am heading out to when I leave home Monday! So my next blog will be a surprise!

Here is my campus pic with the retriever mascot! :) Be looking for pics from preference tonight too coming later of my lovely Phi Gamma's all dressed up in their black dresses!

Florida Gulf Coast University

So it's been quite a while since my last post, considering I have been at Florida Gulf Coast University for the past three or so weeks. I am in southern Florida, in Ft. Myers. For all my Tennessee friends up there in the cold, I am enjoying the 80 degree weather, and actually am a little sunburnt today! ;)

I have had such a great time getting to know these ladies in our Theta Nu chapter. I also LOVED getting to work with my consultant friend, Lindsey Wall! I hadn't seen her since training in July! So it was long overdue to catch up! Our chapter is doing so great here, and I hate to leave them tomorrow!

While I was here, I stayed with Lindsey at her apartment! It is a nice gated community, with a gym and a pool! It was so nice to be able to go to the gym every day, and also not to mention, I was like the only one in the gym too. It was like my own personal gym! The pool is so beautiful too, and it is in the shape of a quatrefoil. I only got to go there twice, but boy was it nice! Lindsey and I even got to squeeze in a beach day while I was here too. I feel like I'm in heaven!!

During my time here, our chapter had so many great things going on. We had a very fun Duck Calls and Overalls themed mixer with Sigma Chi, just in my element, right? Too bad I wasn't home to bring out my overalls for the event. We had a lot of fun events too such as bows and bracelets making, cupcake creation, and a Valentine's Day themed event.

I loved getting to know not only our women on campus, but also working with Greek Life. It was so great to be here for an extended time, and also to know when I tell these ladies bye that I will see them again later this semester. I will be traveling in and out a lot this semester, and I miss everyone here already! I'm off to Baltimore tomorrow morning to visit the University of Maryland-Baltimore County for recruitment. Can't wait, but I am a little nervous about how my body is going to handle the transition from 83 degrees to 33 degrees tomorrow! That's all for now y'all!

Lindsey and I at the campus sign! Had to get my campus picture! Aren't the palm trees breathtaking? Betcha didn't know there are hundreds of different types of palm trees. Learned that during my stay! Love Florida!!

Everything's Bigger in Texas at Houston Baptist University

So since my last blog I have been at Houston Baptist University in Houston, Texas helping our Epsilon Mu chapter of Phi Mu with recruitment.

I am so proud of the ladies in this chapter, and I cannot wait for Bid Night tonight!! I got here on Thursday for Skit Round, and our theme was Phi Mu Road Trip. It was such a funny skit, and I think I had as much fun as the girls in the skit did. Friday was Philanthropy Round, and everyone knows how much I love CMNH! Today was Preference, and tonight is Bid Night. Our theme is "It's hard to be humble when you are queen of the jungle!" We are taking our new members out to the Rain Forest Cafe for dinner tonight, and I am so excited to see them all come running out to us!

The highlight of my trip though I must say was today on the way back from lunch being told that I was the most influential consultant my chapter has ever had. As consultants we work long hours (especially during recruitment), and the job is not always easy. However, knowing that I made a difference in the lives of the girls I meet is the reason I took this job, and today I felt like I accomplished that! I seriously wanted to tear up with joy! :) I am so glad that God placed this job in my life path, and I cannot wait to see what the rest of the semester has in store for me!!

Preference Day

Phi Mu Road Trip

Philanthropy- I'm a bit of an odd ball! :)

Case Western: Take Two!

So when I found out that I got to visit out Delta Omega chapter for a second time at Case Western Reserve University, I was so excited. I arrived here on Friday and leave out tomorrow morning. This weekend was recruitment workshops!

I was so excited to get to see the women I met during my list visit, and also to get to know the next executive committee. Recruitment workshops went SO well, and I cannot wait to hear how great these women do in recruitment over the next few weekends.

The only damper to my stay was that I got sick on Friday night. I am convinced that it is a bad sinus infection, but no matter what it is it stinks being sick away from home... However, these girls were so sweet and took me to the pharmacy, checked in on me, and made me feel like I was at home! Sisters helping sisters! :)

Last night the girls took me out to dinner to a fancy italian restaurant in Little Italy, and boy was it delicious. Today, I got the pleasant surprise of getting to see Beth Monnin! I met her several times during extension last semester traveling, and it was so good to see her again. Her daughter is a member here at Delta Omega! Beth used to be a consultant, and she has served our Fraternity for years by being an adviser, serving as an area officer, and even being on our National Executive Committee. She is such an inspiration to me! :)

Tomorrow I leave out to head to Florida Gulf Coast University. This is our only extension from the fall that I haven't visited yet. I am so excited to be a frequent visitor there this spring, and I am SO excited about getting to see Lindsey Wall. She is the resident consultant there, and we are great friends. I haven't seen her since training last July! It's been toooooo long, and I can't wait to catch up!

That's all for now y'all! I'm hoping the warm Florida weather will clear up my sickness! Prayers would be greatly appreciated! Love y'all!

Indiana University!

SOOOO I had to write a blog about my latest visit, since it's been before Christmas since my last one. I am back on the road for spring semester, and I absolutely loved my first visit at Indiana University.

I arrived here on Friday, and when I landed my body automatically went in to freeze mode! I am not used to weather even near this cold, and there is nearly a foot of snow on the ground! WOW!

I was here for round three of recruitment and also for preference. I got to help out a lot with the behind the scenes of recruitment and I absolutely loved it. The girls at Delta Alpha got a GREAT pledge class, and I am so proud of them.

Today was Bid Day, and the theme was Red, White, and Mu! The sweatshirts they got were so cute! Here to welcome phis, the girls storm buses that drop them off at houses, and boy oh boy was it cold. I had on my gloves, scarf, ear muffs, pea coat, and about four pairs of socks and still froze! It was so worth it though to see new members tearing up from excitement getting off the buses. GIVES ME CHILLS! I did have to miss The Bachelor and the championship game tonight though, but it was so worth it! No worries though, I have The Bachelor recorded and got updates on my ESPN app for the game! HA! Here are a few pics from tonight:

Membership Directors

NEW PHIS!

Bid Day!

My reference girls!

I am so sad I am already leaving tomorrow, but I am so glad I got to visit this campus. I was supposed to come here for leadership training known as UIFI the summer of my presidency and I didn't get to, due to summer class. So it was a treat to get to come. The house is so beautiful, and listen to this.... they have chocolate milk on tap!!!!!! :) I'm in heaven. They also have a gym in their house, which makes me so jealous. It's very nice. I love everything about UI! The president is going to give me a campus tour tomorrow before I get dropped off at my shuttle, so my usual campus pic will not be in this blog, I still got one... no worries!

So glad to be back on the road!

Mu Love,
Brittany

App State!

It's been a while since my last blog! I got to be home for Thanksgiving for a good while, and I left out Friday to visit my 20th campus! I have been at Appalachian State working with out Lambda Beta Chapter the past few days, and I have absolutely loved it.

One of my good friends that works at Headquarters, Kaitlyn Kilby, went to school here, and her family is close by! She got to visit at the same time I did, and I was so excited to get to see her. I flew into the Charlotte Airport on Friday, and she picked me up! We got to go visit her family, and I absolutely loved her two puppies! :) After that, we piled back into the car with a couple of her friends from back home and headed to her families Mtn. House.

We got to stay at her families mtn. house for three nights, and it was absolutely gorgeous. You could look out the backdoor and see the beautiful Appalachian Mountains, and there were always deer in the backyard. One night we saw 7 at one time!

Saturday morning we worked with the old and new executive councils on transitioning. We concluded around noon so that the girls could go to the App State playoff game! We went around campus and saw a lot of old friends of Kaitlyn's tailgating, and then went to lunch at a local restaurant called Macado's! After that we headed up to this little place called Blowing Rock! We got THE best homemade ice cream I have ever had!

Sunday we had training all day again, and it was a great time working with the new executive committee and advisers! Sunday night we went back to the mountain house and worked on some calendar planning and had some girl time!

The past two days I have been meeting with the leaders of the chapter and giving them suggestions and ideas on how to make this next year successful! I feel like I have really made a difference in this chapter, and that is the most rewarding feeling you can ever have as a consultant. I leave out bright and early tomorrow morning to head back to good ole Rocky Top for Christmas break! I get to be home for quite a few weeks, and I am so excited to spend some time with my family and friends!

That's all for now y'all! I can't believe my first semester as a consultant is over already! Time flies!