all smiles on campus

part of what i love about carolina is the friendliness of the student body...people who visit our campus are often taken aback by the warm openess that accompanies every carolina student, from offering directions around campus to engaging in long conversations with potential students in their spare time. call it southern hospitality.

that friendliness has been demonstrated to me so many times today, in friends and strangers alike...

the pit i love especially, for the fact that everybody goes there to meet up with friends before meals, club meetings, or just to hang out. all around me today were people chattering about their summers, classes, exchanging smiles and hugs in greeting to those they hadn't likely seen since last may. i love people watching, not in the stalkerish kind of way, but just because that's my natural writer's instinct kicking in...i enjoy being able to see how people interact.

today i had the pleasure of eating breakfast with a good friend of mine, a surprise of meeting another friend in the pit (one whom i had not seen in ages), lunch with yet another friend, and then meeting two very nice guys tonight at dinner (all of us formerly complete strangers who shared a table at ramshead because of the dinner rush). now if only everybody outside of this little bubble of chapel hill could extend the same courtesies as i have been privy to today, i do believe things would be a lot better off.

most of all...yay for a surprise visit from a special person of mine i miss very much...you have no idea how much this meant to me! :-D