Branching out

If there's one thing I avoid, it's going to new places by myself and meeting new people. I dread initializing conversations with people I don't know and trying to feel comfortable in a new setting. But tonight, I did it anyway.

My parents' parish has a YA group, and I had been interested in attending sometime, but I wanted KC to come too. Tonight, she's in Belize, and as my only other plans for getting out of the house cancelled on me, I figured what the heck. Let's do this thing. Of course, I wound up needing an encouraging word from my dad to convince me to go.

But I did, and I immediately ran into a friendly guy who played pool with me for a while and tried to give me pointers as I suck at pool. Pretty much everyone I met there was friendly and welcoming. It was so fantastic to see something like this at my old parish, the place I felt I never belonged. So we'll see what happens, but right now, I think I've got plans most Thurs nights :)