[Oh, boy, is this pleasant young man just singing her tune, all right. She's come to accept that some things here are just going to be different from the way she expects them to be, and that's fine, but having her old-fashioned beliefs validated is undeniably pleasant, too.]

Why, of course! As I said, I'm happy to answer anything I can. As for myself, it's been just a bit over a year now; it's October, by the local reckoning of things, and I arrived in late September, a year ago.