The fall 2010 semester!

Our chapter has had a busy couple of months since the beginning of the semester!

This fall Eta Theta welcomed over 60 beautiful new members. We're so proud and excited that we can call them all our sisters. Our bid day in August was "Cinderella" themed, letting our new girls know that Theta is their "perfect fit".

After bid day we jumped right into activities like sisterhood events, socials, and several philanthropies including Kappa Delta's Shakedown in September and Zeta Tau Alpha's New Member Lip Sync in October. Our girls did a phenomenal job and we were excited to go out there to support them!

Not only did we participate in other Panhellenic chapters' philanthropies, but we also participated in UCF's Knights Give Back. Also on October 19th Eta Theta celebrated Bettie Locke's birthday by participating in Kappa Alpha Theta's Day of Service. Our chapter collected tons of canned food for Central Florida's Second Harvest Food Bank. We love spreading the widest influence for good!

Last spring, the University of Tampa voted to expand on campus and Kappa Alpha Theta was the chapter chosen to come on. Eta Theta was asked to help establish their charter class during recruitment in September, and we're happy to see that since then they've started growing! We can't wait to hear news from that chapter in the weeks and years to come. Below is a photo of some of us being silly when we went to UT in September!

In other news, our girls are undefeated in IM Basketball! We're so excited to go out and cheer on our team in the upcoming playoffs.

Also coming up we have our date function to Halloween Horror Nights and Eta Theta's 10th year anniversary! It's going to be a fun and amazing few weeks. We can't wait to see what the rest of the semester has in store for us as well!

Until then,

Faith Hope and Love <3

The semester is ending!

Eta Theta has had a busy couple of weeks recently!

Since our last update, we held our spring philanthropy at our house: Fiesta de CASA! This was the first year we did the event, and it was a huge success. A lot of the Greek community attended our Mexican-themed dinner, and we raised a lot of money for CASA and the Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation.

We also got third place at Theta Chi's philanthropy, GI Theta Chi!

Also, in other exciting news, we were awarded Panhellenic Chapter of the Year for the second year in a row! This is a huge honor, and we're very grateful and humbled. We only hope to continue to get stronger in campus involvement, philanthropy, and sisterhood in the coming years at UCF!

The same night we found out we received chapter of the year, one of our sisters, Takara Anderson, got engaged during a candle pass! Her boyfriend proposed with her entire family and friends present. We were very excited to be a part of one of the happiest days in her life. The link to the video of the proposal is here: Takara and Travis's engagement: theproposalstory.com

We also had our Southern Ball formal on April 9 at Highland Manor in Apopka. Everyone had a great time, and the food was excellent. It was a great way to end the year and spend time with our 28 graduating seniors.

On April 18, we had homecoming serenades. We're also happy to say that we've chosen to pair with the gentlemen of Delta Tau Delta for homecoming 2010! Over the last few days we've been getting to know some of the brothers, and we're very excited for the fall.

As the semester winds down we have a few last events before everyone separates for the summer. On April 21 we are having a sisterhood event at Arabian Nights, and on April 23 we'll be having a "chapter lock-in" and sleeping over at the house. This is when our graduating seniors will read their wills and we'll all get to bond one last time before the semester is over. The following morning, April 24, we'll be waking up and leaving for Kite Krash at Ginnie Springs! This is something we all have been looking forward to all semester. It should be a fun week!

We hope everyone has a good rest of the semester! Good luck on finals, and have a great summer!

Theta love ♥

We're back!

The Eta Theta blog is back!

So far we’ve had a very busy, fulfilling semester. Some of the highlights include our Mother/Daughter weekend in February, a sisterhood event to Farris and Foster’s Chocolate Factory, Mr. CASAnova throwing us a BBQ at our house, and having our IM soccer players make it all the way to the finals!

Mother/Daughter weekend 2010

Recently, we also had the pleasure of going on a social to Liam Fitzpatrick’s in Lake Mary with the lovely men of Phi Delta Theta on March 18. The theme was "Kiss Me, I'm Irish". Also, on Saturday, March 20, our girls won first place over all in TKE/Tri-Delt’s Triple Play philanthropy! We were all very excited and proud of the participants.

Before the social with our Mr. CASAnova, Jake

Theta: First place overall in TKE/Tri-Delt Triple Play!

This week, March 22-March 27, marks the beginning of Greek Week, which is something that we’re all very excited about as well. Our team, also known as “The Incredibles”, is comprised of us, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Sigma Pi, and Delta Phi Lambda. We’re looking forward to participating in all of this week’s events, which also includes KnightThon. Together, we feel the entire Greek community can make a difference for the Children’s Miracle Network and we’re so happy to be a part of it.

On Wednesday, March 31^st we will be hosting our spring philanthropy, “Fiesta de C.A.S.A”, at our house! It will be a Mexican-themed dinner with plenty of contests, raffles, and fun. We’re all very excited to have the Greek community come over for a good time, all while raising money for the Court Appointed Special Advocates. Our philanthropy is very close to our hearts and we’re looking forward to hosting this event!

Although the semester is half over, there are many more events coming up for Eta Theta. Stay tuned for more updates and photos. Lastly, if you have a Twitter account, you can follow us! The link is: http://twitter.com/etathetaucf

Faith, Hope, Love <3