Unexpected Friends

This is just an addition to the earlier post but I really wanted to write this down.

So I went to the picnic tonight expecting to have fun but also for it to be a bit awkward. Maybe it was a little bit but not really. I forgot what it was like to be with my Mahtomedi friends - where everyone knows everyone's business and gosh did I miss it. Laura has been my best friend since 5th grade... and really the only friend from MHS I have consistently kept in touch with over the last 7 years that we haven't gone to the same schools - and that right there says a lot about the strength of our friendship. But I do feel bad for the friends and times I missed out on when I transfered schools. Not that I regret a minute of those people I met at my high school but part of me was always still in my hometown at my public school.

Tonight was more about reconnecting. For the first time, in a long time, I felt like all of those friends and I had some common ground. We discussed everything from dorm life to college fashions and it all came really naturally. It actually ended with me chatting with Laura at her house and discovering that one of the girls that I didn't really know - really respected me and wanted to be better friends. I went into this summer expecting to not see my high school and college friends as much as summers past, and in a way that has happened - but I was not prepared for the fact that I could make some new friends too!

That's kind of all I had to say - so have a good night,
Much Love and Hugs,
Chrissy