Something New and Exciting

  This past weekend, I did something that I never do. I am an extremely shy person. I hang out with certain people with my full personality showing, but as soon as I get around new people, I stay really quiet and out of the way. This past weekend I went to a murder mystery even in my hall with my roommate. After it was all over and done with, we were asked to help out with a banner for homecoming. We decided to stay along with all of the people on the eboard and a few other residence. I decided to be my normal self instead of hiding my true personality.
  It turns out that there are some really cool people in my residence hall that I never even knew lived here. We worked on the banner for five hours and we were all laughing and dancing the entire time. For the next few days after that, we all continued to hang out in the basement and work on the banner so that we could make it the best that we could. We finally finished it today and it came out amazing. I made friends with a lot of people that I will most likely hang out with more.
   If I hadn't been myself, people may have not noticed me or not really got to know me. From this experience, I realize that I should really do that more often. I am in ollege and being shy all the time just isn't a good way for me to make more friends. We all hung out so much in the past four days that I would honestly say that if we ever had to do another major thing with our hall, I would hope that it would be with the same people.