It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?
It's very nice to see when somebody who wanted to work hard and is willing to put the work in gets rewarded for it.
A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.