Greetings from the University of Illinois!

Work week went very well at Purdue! The girls worked very hard and made me feel very comfortable in their home! I am headed back to Purdue on Thursday and I will be there pretty much until September 8. Right now I am staying with one of the other ELCs, Heather, at her apartment at the University of Illinois. She is heading up the re-colonization efforts here.

We are re- colonizing our Kappa Chapter of Alpha Xi Delta. This is very exciting. We are coming back to the University of Illinois and starting a chapter from the ground up. This means we are working to recruit 150 freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors to be a part of Alpha Xi Delta. This is very exciting and I am honored to be a part of such an exciting task!

Laura, one of the other ELCs, and I have been staying with Heather since last Friday. Over the past weekend, we did a lot of PR work for Kappa. We spent most of Saturday hanging up signs in local businesses, to get the word out about an Alpha Xi Delta open house event. On Sunday, we participated in Quad Day. Quad Day is a huge event here at U of I. It is basically the time for every campus organization to get their name out there and recruit like crazy. There were thousands of students there, and we met a lot of potential new members. It was awesome. We were there from noon to 4:30 PM, so I got nice a sunburned, which I was not upset about, because I figured it might just be my last "sun tan" of the summer! : )

We also spent a lot of time this weekend baking cookies and putting together goodie bags for the Fraternities on campus. As part of our PR and recruitment efforts, we are delivering “We 'heart' ΑΞΔ” yard signs, informational flyers & cookies to the Fraternities on campus. The sororities have already been displaying the yard signs and they will continue to do so during formal recruitment. The Fraternities have also started to proudly display their yard signs as well. We delivered many of them tonight and we will deliver the rest of them tomorrow night!

The Greek community on this campus is amazing and incredibly supportive! It is very cool! We’ve met a lot of sorority and fraternity men who are very excited about Alpha Xi Delta and are eager to help us recruit in any way they can. It is so awesome to be exposed to such a unified Greek community!