Brave Chris

Like everyone, I am a mixture of contradictions. I am very, very comfortable and outgoing with my friends but completely terrified of strangers. I love people and I love solitude; I can't do without either. So I am proud of the step I am taking tonight.

I have gone to the website MeetUp.com and joined a French conversation group and I am going to my first function tonight. I will be eating with twenty people who want to speak French and I know not a single one of them. It is a craps shoot as to how things may go. I will be reporting.