He seems surprised to hear the name of a country he recognizes. Gosh, there sure are a lot of people from Earth in this cohort. Nice people, too. He sort of wishes he'd come in along with them in the first place, instead of those other jerks...but that's a mope for another time.

"Um, I'm from America. It's been...almost a year, I guess, since I got here. And I've never been to England, but I always wanted to go." And now he never will oh god the angst of it all.