How to add a border to text in gimp

okay, so i have this text:



And tbh it looks bad.
It's the beginning of my second day on GIMP, and this text is made FROM SCRATCH in there, and playing with different effects.
How do i add...a border around the text? Or how do i make it smooth out so it looks better? There's no...BOOM in it.

EDIT - okay, i've now added a border, but the image is still way too pixellated! How can i fix that? Anyone? :/

 

Well i don't use gimp much but try going to the text layer, Then CTRL+A and then try to stroke the path.

 

Didn't work, thanks for actually trying to help though.

 

did you try control + a then to stroke the path?