Dog Time 7

How to explore a city when you don't know a language? Like a wandering dog, I went from door to door, making friends along the way. 10 days, same route, sometimes same faces. Just a little closer each time.

The Nge family was where it all started. The pulling out of my phone, google translate, communicating through signs and smiles. Giving up, food put in front of me, laughter as I tried a dish.. A vodka shot put in my hand, cheers and conversations above my head. It seems I was adopted many times, over many days.

Mr. Nge welcomed me into his house, I had been visiting every day. Starting my journey there and visiting every house on the road, ones which had a cafe or store in the front. And then I hit the massage parlours - the same ones every day, and then the Karaoke bar. Until they were sick of me and told me to go home. I'd end up at the food trucks by the river, and there I met Pum Pum, who took me to meet her daughter. We played a game, 3 chits of paper, you draw a head and fold, pass the paper and then draw a shoulder and a body. Fold, pass. What creature did we create?

It pulled me out of my head, out of my dark little cloud.

Is this love?