no love today
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This post is about a 12km walk from Wangdu to Dingzhou. I see a bunch of dogs in cages and try to have a conversation with a kid.
The reason for today’s title is right here in the first picture.
NO LOVE TODAY ไปๆฅไธ็ฑ – the translation is a bit rough, I know. Actually, this is supposed to say something like: “if you don’t love your roads today, there will be no roads tomorrow” But now all that is left is no love today.
I’m sitting in my hotel room as I am writing this, with my shoes on and my jacket and my hat, and my hands are freezing. Iย feel like an idiot. A big idiot. I somehow managed to find the only place in town that doesn’t have heating.
And I’m thinking, was there really no love today? Basically the only thing I did is walk, walk, and walk.
in the fog
The fog was still there. It wasn’t as bad as yesterday, but still. And I am starting to wonder: is it maybe just some sort of industrial smog?
I saw something nice next to the road.
The old and the young, walking home, through the fog. I liked them.
a place for pets?
But then there was this place with absolutely NO LOVE.
They apparently sold pets: birds and dogs and scorpions.
I took a look inside. There were no scorpions and no birds. But there were dogs, a lot of dogs. They were locked up in tiny cages. When one of them noticed me and started to bark, they woke up one after the other and looked at me from bleak eyes.
And then they all started barking.
It sounded like a cacophony of misery, so I decided to leave, leave, leave.
I walked fast. It wasn’t just about finishing the walk from Wangdu to Dingzhou. I also wanted to put some distance between that pet market and me. I walked and I walked. And the sound of the barking quieted down behind me.
how that conversation went
I was still thinking whether or not I should have stayed around to take more pictures of the misery and find out what that pet place was actually all about, when I ran into aย little guy.
He was trying to get a drink from a water faucet, but when he noticed me, he suddenly froze up.
Neither of us moved, only the shutter of my camera did.
After a while he apparently decided that I wasn’t so scary after all, so he started a little conversation with me.
little guy: “?”
Chris: “What? You go to school, little friend?”
little guy: nods.
Chris: “Primary school or kindergarten?”
little guy: “?”
Chris: “You go to school?”
little guy: nods.
Chris: “Um… okay, see you later, little friend!”
little guy: nods and waves with his hand.
Well, okay, we didn’t really understand each other in some aspects.
But we tried.
Rindy
so glad that my dog wasn;t in it.so poor !
it's the shottest blog you've never written.
Christoph
Yeah, I noticed that too, somehow missing a lot of text on this one. I just fixed it though.
Bast
Take That???!!! … oh nein… waaaruuuuuuuuum?
Christoph
hey, isn gutes Lied!
้ขๆก
Hi , Not only walk walk walk ….., during you walk walk walk, but also think think think, and there have an adage in china. everyone know it, walk ten thousands better then read ten thousands book.
Good luck friends, i will see you here later.
Christoph
Hehe, it's so good to hear I don't have to read any books anymore! That leaves the cold evenings for hours and hours of Chinese TV!
froggyfrog
you can collect all your entries and form a book for us to read.. You know what, I can help you translate them into chinese and publish for chinese readers, must be very interesting! Go on, dube!
Christoph
First I gotta walk the walk then talk the talk!
NONO
they have a scorpion on that picture, becasue they sell scorpion too. you see, the slogan painted on the wall in bold red letters is "ๅฎๅ็ฌ่ๅญ", but the "่ๅญ(scorpion)" was erased.
Christoph
…in the end they didn't want to sell scorpions anymore… I wonder why…
mccabe
the locked up dogs make
my heart break.
the little boy in the orange coat
makes me melt.
light and dark.
this blog is a comfort to me…
beautiful.
x
Christoph
mccabe: I feel honored that you are taking the time to read this.
mccabe
you are too kind, christoph!
the honor is all mine…
i am going through so many changes
right now,
visiting here makes me feel understood.
thank YOU.
x
John
People and their freaking dogs. They eat them in China. How’s that rub you? Lol. No comments about the child? Sorry for the negativity.
Lydia
So herzig! Der Junge!