Yuen-speak chinese?

On Friday night the Americans went to a club for some dancing and a woman approached me who was Terceirian and had lived in China and Taiwan for 9 months. She wanted to practice her Chinese with me but my Chinese is lousy and it didn't work out very well. Then we started talking about Portuguese and she offered to give me some Portuguese lessons in the future and we exchanged contact information. Hopefully she will get back to me and we can further the language exchange. Anyways, I've noticed that the people here are extremely friendly and approachable and often offer to help us. The other day, while we were in a pastry shop, we started talking to two locals and we ended up exchanging emails and they offered to take us to the American base in the near future because they had military connections. There's a huge sense of community here and though we stick out as the strangers, I've still experienced great hospitality from almost everyone I've met.