I felt much the same my first year here.

You haven't seen the horrors I saw in my first year. [severely] We hit a port so hard that even the Barge itself was endangered by it. A mass of Inmates and Wardens were left behind, and afterward almost everyone who could took off.

But one of the Wardens -- came from a time well after mine. Told me something that's fairly true no matter where you are.