New Findings

Moving to a new place where I don't know a soul has been scary for me. To try and give myself more confidence and to get to know the area better I decided to go to at least one new place a week. The past couple weeks I feel like I've been taking the easy way out by going to the library, a new grocery store, you know places like that. This week was definitely something new and different, and I had a blast!

There is an upstate Purdue Alumni Association here which I recently joined along with a fellow Boilermaker who just moved down to South Carolina. The PAA volunteered at a jazz festival (which apparently happens once a week). It's a free event that happens in downtown Greenville (which I love and wish that I lived there instead of where I do live!)and all the proceeds go to a nonprofit organization. We were collecting tips to go towards annual scholarships the club gives out. The only thing you have to pay for at the festival is food, drink, and/or a wristband if you want to be able to drink alcohol. The band they had was great and the food and drinks were nowhere near over priced. I was in the beer trailer and I got the chance to work on perfecting the art of pouring beer. It was a lot of fun telling the beer purchasing patrons about Purdue and hearing their comments (some were hilarious, some were encouraging, and others were just plain mean! i.e. "f*ck the boilers"). Afterwords Jess and I, along with her brother and his g/f, went to a local bar there. The bar was free to get into for the ladies, and they had outdoor seating with a live band...not too shabby! We only got to hear the band play one song...Enter Sandman, but then the bar played songs such as Secret Lovers and Sexual Healing :)
I had such a great time, but it made me really miss having friends or even just people I know around me. Here's to hoping I make more friends soon!