Blog #3

I'm glad to see that some people are taking interest in my blog! This excites me :) On a higher note from my last post, I would like to start this week off by talking about a new friend I made, and the positive way I've already seen them being effected by it.  We will call friend number two Ralph.  [I enjoy making up these names :)].  Ralph and I have sat next to each other in a class almost since the start of the semester, but did not exchange names and basic 'get to know you' questions until about the third week of school.  At first, we only spoke here and there in class and he spoke very softly and never really had much to say overall.  Last week I invited him to have lunch with me in our dining hall and he timidly accepted.  We ate and conversed and I introduced him to my friends.  Two days later when we had class again he asked if he could go to lunch with me again and I said, "Of course."  This time, though, we sat alone and met a few new people that I offered to come sit with us at our table and we all got to know each other.  When we left the dining hall that day he told me, "You make me meet too many new people!"  It made me laugh and smile and I told him that meeting people is good and he should want to make new friends.

This week I was sick and unable to go to class on Tuesday and I got a call from Ralph asking if he could come to my room.  I said he could and he did; when he got there he seemed like a completely different person!  He was talkative and happy and having conversations with my roommate, and making a point to tell me that he met a few new people at dinner over the weekend in the dining hall.  He seemed really excited to be meeting new people and it made me happy to see him breaking out of his shell.  When I first met him he had also told me that he and his roommate hardly ever spoke, and now he said they've been talking more often and getting along a lot better.  I'm not positive that it was solely my lunch invite that made him open up more and want to make new friends, but I do know that he seems like a much happier person now that he has.  He seems to be enjoying his college experience much more and I can honestly see how much more comfortable he is around people.  This gives me even more motivation to want to keep this blog going and to keep trying to meet new people.  I think everyone could really benefit from this just as my new friend "Ralph" has :)