I was reading my old post from the start of this past school year and decided that I wanted to continue on with what happened. This was the post about being uncomfortable talking to new people. Well I managed to do okay with that. In one class we had assignments that could be done in groups of up to three people. Although I was not the first one to talk with both the girls I did manage to work with them in groups for both assignments. Although we didn't talk outside of class I did still manage to talk to them without it feeling extremely uncomfortable.
I did manage to do a little better than that still. The labs I had mentioned in the post did me some good. The first day I ended up sitting next to a pair of friends. I mainly talked to the girl who was directly next to me, but did help the guy on her other side a little. A few days later he realized that he sits directly in front of me in another class. We both were heading to a computer lab to finish our assignments after class so we worked together to finish the assignment due that day. I ended up talking to him by the end of the semester from working on the assignments for class in the same computer lab. The following semester we both had the same classes and most of them together. One day a week we basically had the same breaks so we began working on homework together then. He reminded me of one of my other friends especially when he didn't understand things so the past couple years of explaining things to my friend really helped.
I quite happy to say that I have improved a little in my ability to talk to people I don't know. I even start a conversation with someone who was in all my classes. Lent my book out a few times, once in class and when the guy who was sitting next to me said he didn't agree to share his book with me before I lent mine to the guys in front of me I had talked to him enough that I was comfortable to state that he would share.
Who knows maybe with the next school year I will improve some more :)
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