As far as making friends is concerned, I'm afraid I have limited experience when it comes to that kind of stuff. I have very few friends, to be honest, though the ones I do have, I value quite highly. From what I could gather it seems that when ever I consciously try to form a connection with another human being, I fail miserably. Somehow it seems that, at least for me, friendships grow and develop on their own and that if you need to work on them, they are not really going to work out. Or it may just be that I am just very bad at working on them.
It's a bit cliché, but the best I can do is be as honest as I can and hope that people will like it.
I don't think that helped very much
It is a good question though, and one I should probably be thinking about myself, as I just moved to a new country and have a total of zero friends here