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Chapter 2 – Vehicles, Resumes and Schools
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Angie: Wow, there sure is a lot to do to get ready to go off to school.
Tina: Your list is just half of what we will need to do honey. Me and your mom will have a bunch of other things to arrange like bank accounts, debit card, credit card, insurance, health records, health needs, communication devices, emergency contacts and the money to pay for the school, housing, food, transportation, etcetera, etcetera. And to get those things, we have to get a whole bunch of documents. Our list is just as complex as your list. Just remember if it’s not on the list, it probably will not get done and you will be on your own to get it or do without.
Bette: Angie, get me the dates on which you are expected to move into your dorm. We might need to book hotel rooms in New Haven for ourselves. We need to go ahead and do that before they all get taken.
Dan: Can’t we stay in the dorm room with Angie?
Tina: No darling, that will not be allowed. She will have a twin bed and the four of us won’t fit on a twin bed.
Bette: We want to get a good night’s sleep, so we need to have our own beds.
Angie: Here is the preliminary schedule. Dorms will open at 9:00 am Saturday, August 31st. Dorms closed to guest at 5:00 pm on Sunday, September 1st.
Bette: Okay, we will go to New York on August 25th and return September 1st on the redeye to LA. Angie, I’m going to book your flights for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It looks like there will not be much opportunity for you to come home before Thanksgiving. I know it’s three months on the calendar, but since this is your first quarter, you are going to be really busy. But if you see an opportunity, let us know. The problem is that it’s about a 6-hour flight from Boston and a 5-hour flight from New York. And you will need to take the train from New Haven to Boston or to New York first. And that’s another two hours. So, it will take about 10 hours here and 10 hours to get back, so that does not leave a whole lot of time to be home. So, on a 48-hour weekend where you sleep on the plane, that leaves 18 hours to enjoy our company. And I bet you will need a 6-hour nap in there somewhere. So, we will be together for 12 hours for 20 hours’ worth of travel. That is not going to be very satisfactory for anyone.
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Love all the details!
Didn’t know anything about going to university and the different college houses, after reading it i would advise Angie not to join one of them. Find her own way and make her own friends, not ones who hold standards and where you can’t be yourself.
Bette, Tina, Angie and Daniel are in for a ride with all these changes in their life.
Look forward to read more!
Bibi,
Thank you for reading…. this is strictly a personal opinion on the role of sororities and fraternities – to belong to the right group and meet and know the right people. If it were not that way, they would not discriminate who should be a member and who shouldn’t. I’m sure others have their own view which would contradict mine. Such as the way life is…
My hopes in this story is to show Bette and Tina going through some normal life decisions and relationships. It is not a story of high drama…. but I am in hopes that sometime, the everyday things can cause the everyday requirement to connect and communicated with your spouse and family. I do go into some detail in Bette and Tina’s communication with Angie and later with Daniel as well as each other. I hope that the reader will see how these two create and maintain the solid relationship they have which will carry on for a life time. This will not appeal to a whole lot of people…. but I hope that when you go through these next few months with Bette and Tina, you will know them as I do.
This is a long story…. but it is complete and ready to post. Let me know the frequency you would like for me post and I will keep it coming…. Thank you for reading…
I am very proud of you for completing your story. I think k it’s nice to see them going through real life. I hope to get back in the game when I am well enough. Congratulations on your story.
Thank you for your explanation about your intentions of this story.
About the frequency of you posting, it really doesn’t matter for me, i work in the weekend every other week and then free on Thursday and Friday but i work early and late shifts. Post whenever you want and i try to read it if i have time, i promise i will read it.
I like the story. This chapter of course is your opinion. Having been to college and being a member of a sorority, I differ in my opinion of college. It’s not ALL ABOUT Greek life. They are not discriminatory. There’s also other facets of college life that make it some of the best years of a person’s life. I made life long friends, both Greek and non-Greek that made my college experience a great one. There’s a balance and all sorts of things that I feel you didn’t touch on in the explanation to Angelica. However, it’s your story and your opinion, your version. I will continue to read because you’re a great writer. I just felt this chapter was unbalanced.
Trecelovinit…. Thank you for reading…. First, I must say, this is the first of several conversation Bette and Tina will be having with Angie about college life. They will leave it up to Angie to decide if you wants to get into Greek life or not. With the continuing conversations they will have, I hope you will see there is a continuing theme in that Angie is totally in control of her life at college. That includes who she associates with, what organizations she decides to belong to, what she studies and how she spends her free time.
I think I have a different definition of discrimination. I mean to determine who should be a member and who shouldn’t on whatever basis that happens. It could be based on personality, on appearance, on social contacts or family contacts, or course of study or some other criteria which is totally not apparent to those who are being chosen versus those who are not. For everyone who desires to be a member does not get an invitation to be a member. So someone is discriminating against those they do not wish to extend an invitation in favor of those they wish to extend an invitation. And that criteria may have nothing to with color, race, religion, gender identification, sexual orientation, political persuasion or country of origin. But the process is discriminatory in that each house have a limited number of members. Sororities and Fraternities are social organizations based upon knowing the right people to enhance you college life and your post college life.
Yes, I am probably not presenting a balance picture… but I’m not sure that I am capable of presenting a more balance picture. This is my Bette and Tina’s view based upon their own experiences. And believe it or not, they are desperately trying to allow Angie to make up her own mind about college life when she goes off to experience it. But they do want her to see that with every benefit, there are cost. And please remember, both Tina and Bette attended college some 35 years ago. Life has changed in that period… Their experiences are not going to be the same as Angie’s experiences will be.
Thank you for your comment…
Thank you for your response. I do appreciate your perspective and responding to me. I do love the story and as I stated previously, I think your writing is great. I will continue to read. I do respect and did state that it’s your opinion and your story. I agree their time in college was 35 years ago. Honestly, it’s been 30 years for me. Things definitely do change and I appreciate different perspectives. Thank you for writing.