Yeah, I think things would be much easier for us to struggle here if it was our native country, but things are tough in Suriname now, and Surinamers are looking out for each other and family, a picture we don't fit into.

Even the other immigrant communities here have support networks because they have large communities, like the Brazilians, Haitians, Cubans, and Guyanese. For us, it has really felt like us 4 against the world since day one in Suriname. We've only made one close friend in the 2+ years we've been here, and I've never been anywhere in the world with such closed and tight social circles.

Anyhow, hope we might meet one day before our time is over here.