I am new here and this is the first thing i'm doing on this site but to answer the question, i believe the excerpt is written from a first person point of view.
i tried answering this for you but it told me i was being rude and could not answer this lol
D. absolutely. that is how you correctly write the date.
To me that is a personal question, so just describe where you live, popular places near where you live and maybe even what the people are like(nice, mean etc.)