I just need to rant and get this out of my system. There is this really cute boy I know. We really haven't talked that much. He just helps out with our labs and does study tables. But he gets to nerd out about insects the whole time, and it's the cutest thing. I have been obsessing over every detail. Like yesterday when he asked me if I was going to help pull weeds at our professor's house for lab. I said yes and that it was going to be a great time, and he agreed with me. After that, I was talking to some other girls in the class, and they said he might like me because he didn't ask them that. But that is the biggest stretch if I have ever seen one. Other than that occurrence, there has been no other time we have interacted outside of the classroom. I don't see him as being interested, but my friends are telling me that I am just being mean to myself. I just don't believe I am his type. Like he is a runner (like really good), and I am (nicest way to put it) overweight. And I am just not a girly girl; i don't wear make-up, I don't dress up often, and I just don't talk the same way other girls do. There is no chance he likes me. And even if he did, he is an international student. There are different cultural practices and such that I don't know about and I don't know how to over come them. It worries me because I had a friend tell me that it is normal in his culture for men not to approach or show interest first in a woman.
I know I am overthinking this because I am not even his friend yet. That is the first step I need to make. I at least know he is single so I'm not stepping on anyone's toes. I think what I'm going to do next is ask him how his exam went the other day, and then in a few days when we have study tables, I will give him a can of his favorite drink. I think this is a good plan? Even if he doesn't end up liking me, I'll at least kinda know how to make a friend, right?
I don't know if anyone has any advice, it would be greatly appreciated. All I have heard is that I am pretty, and I just need to take a chance. And also be his friend first.