Frat Beach, everyone's favorite holiday, has once again reached our calendars. We painted our jugs, we venmoed for housing, we stuffed into someone's Nissan Altima and paid $10 for gas, and we all ended up in Saint Simons. Our costumes required a $25 investment at Walmart and a $12.99 purchase of metalic shorts on Amazon, but the insta gram pictures of your look was priceless. Welcome to GA-FL. Welcome to Frat Beach. Welcome to hearing "lets get this bread" more often than Mo Bamba. We're only young once, so here's to acting like it.
1. You came with 18 of your closest friends.... to a 2 bedroom airbnb.
Bodies are everywhere. It looks like morgue. Half our luggage is sleeping bags. Everything is crowded. Clothes are everywhere. Something is spilt on the floor. There's a stack of Zaxby's left overs on the minifridge. Someone is doing their makeup outside with a mirror they pulled off the wall. Everyone brought their own extension cord to plug their phones. You have already decided you're sleeping in a bed next year or you're not paying for it. It's a great time to be a young broke college kid.2. You have glitter on you, even if you never put any on
Glitter never goes away. Not in the shower, not in the rain, not on the beach. It stays with you longer than a criminal record. It absolutely covers the shower floor, the car you're riding in, and quite possibly every inch of your body. In the wise words of Ke$ha, "If you're going to be around me, you're going to get glitter on you." This quote becomes too much of a reality when an entire beach of sorority are sparkling.
3. Welcome to the world's largest game of hide and seek
The only distinguishing land marks are tents. You're walking around with your friends looking for people you worked with that one summer or the people your graduated with, but all your texts just say I'm by the *insert random color* tent. You never see them, but it's fine because you see half your history class, your RA, and 37 people in your pledge class.
4. You were there 3 days and you've eaten 1 package of ramen
Eating out is expensive. Walmart is far away. Despite being there for a long weekend, you don't actually buy groceries, and no one wants to drive or pay to go out. Someone orders a pizza, there's a local Mexican restaurant that doesn't look all that sketchy, and there's a BBQ place with a cool patio, and a jumbo size box of ramen. Did you lose weight from being too poor to eat? Probably. Would you have given a kidney for 17 cents worth of chicken flavored noodles? Absolutely.
5. You're back with identikid
You have phone numbers tattoed on your arm with sharpie. You may get lost, your phone may die, and there could be another hurricane. Just to be safe, might as well write the contact info of the 5 people standing closest to you while it's your turn with the sharpie.
