Thanks for your nice words! I am already quite happy with how fast my account is growing; It was only some weeks ago that I was happy to have my posts sitting at over 1$; Now, many of my posts are worth around 5$, and I haven't even posted many longer posts yet!
I have realized how important the social element is, but I feel like there is a great community here on Steemit, I met so many amazing people already.
It would be great to meet you in person somewhere in the world! It will be some time until I will make it back to Latin America, but in August I will leave Germany to travel and study in Asia for half a year.