It's a moment before he realises why she's looking at him with such amazement, recognition not quite hitting her eyes for the first few moments of her studying him, and for a second his response is confusion. Then the realisation hits just a moment before she actually spells it out for him and he smiles awkwardly, rubbing a hand through his hair.

"Uh, yea, I don't really wear it that much here, and when I do it's kinda not the same... " he shrugs "Um.. how have you been? How long have you been here? What's going on? Sorry that's a lot of questions, it's been so long since I've seen anyone from home.."