darlinginvalid

I need to make some friends here. The other interns are great and all...but Im starting to feel a little lonely or isolated. And I've only been here a week. It doesnt help that a decent sized town is about 20 minutes away. In the bay area everything just melts into everything else, cities touch cities that touch other cities and it just keeps going so the world feels big. Here I am in a womb of greenery. Its beautiful, and its totally changed my pace of life... but it does have it's drawbacks.

Ive decided I need to start smiling at more people...I think I come across as unfriendly when really I am just kind of nervous when confronted with random strangers. Im outgoing once I start talking...but I dont usually talk to randomstrangers, probably because I look unfriendly and who wants to talk to someone who looks stoic? Its a circular problem I think...

in anycase, I feel like I need to do a lot of trying new things and breaking old habits while Im out here, out in out of my element... It will be good for me.