Anyway, turns out the bar where brother Teej works has trivia on Thursdays. So last Thursday I got a group together and we went. It happened to be the only Thursday (ever?) that brother Teej didn't have to work, so he went... to work -- but didn't work. Hah! He was on the trivia team with me at his place of work, on his night off.
Here's the team:
Although I've been back in the states for over two months now, I still haven't really made much progress in the "making friends" department. So it felt nice to say look, I got this table of six people together! I had six whole people to invite, and they were able to come. Thus, what may have seemed like a regular night of trivia for some was a proud accomplishment for me. Sure, they may have all been people that I knew prior to Spain (as in two high school friends, three college friends, and my brother), but they were people I can still call my friends now - so that's something. I've got to keep making myself look at everything in a positive light these days.
And since last Thursday, I have been matched with an English learner who I'll converse with for two hours a week as a volunteer for an ESL institute near my apartment. The first meeting will hopefully take place next week. Tonight at la mesa de conversación (Spanish conversation table) I feel like I could nearly call four or five of the regular attendees "friends". So that's more progress. Sadly, two of those will be studying abroad next semester; one in Chile and the other in Germany. Well, that's not sad at all -- that's great for them. But, you know. Another unfortunate fact, tonight was apparently the last mesa de conversación of the semester. And now another "but": but we're planning an unofficial meeting next week at the regular location, so that's good!
I can't think of a way to end this, other than that I'm off to do some more GRE studying before bed. Here I go.
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