You just learn to accept and enjoy what you can from what you have :) I may not have the deep introspections, the fun movie/tv references, or the joking sexual innuendos, but I still have good people around :)

And I'm totally gonna poke you again about the writing idea ;) If not the continuation of the story you started in November, maybe you can re-examine your Africa posts so far and see if you can't string them together into a story in itself. That'd be a kickass souvenir of Africa :)