Wouldn't fault them for it even if we were all in a familiar place! ( Bonds? Friendship is more how she thinks of it, ties in a distinctly different sort of community that lacks anything as a common backdrop except foreign, and without familiar things reflected back at them from the culture around.

Which... in some ways, isn't that strikingly new. )

Just wonder if warning them is worthwhile, too. Since so many aren't used to these kinds of technologies, but oh well. You live and you learn!

( So to speak. )