The return of a tradition

Back in Nanchang, I used to host a weekly dinner party at my place. Those Thursday nights of my last term there were some of the best moments. Good friends, good food and good booze always make for a nice time. I haven't had much of an opportunity to do something like that for almost a year now and I have missed it.

So, now that I have the ability to host these dinners again, I've decided to do it about once a month. It's partly because I like to cook, partly because I want to show some of my foreign friends various kinds of American food. Or at least food that they haven't encountered before. I started by cooking Cajun basically because I hadn't had it in ages and I figured that it would be something that they would like. I invited six fellow TESOL grads and was very pleased that they all came. Everything tasted wonderful, we all got slightly drunk and we definitely were a lot less restrained than we are in class.

I'm not sure if these people are my friends yet, not because we don't like each other but because they all seem so busy that they don't have much time for me so I've been struggling with being social again. I want to go out and do things but living away from campus, it's a bit difficult. People don't think to call me to do things and I'm not one to go out to random places in the hopes that I'll meet somebody nice. This all comes down to the fact that I want to have some good friends and I wouldn't mind meeting a boy. I hate the fact that I seem to whine about this constantly but it something that is in my mind constantly.

Sigh, one of these days I'll stop being a social retard.