There was a map on one of the roads l slowly walked past. It pinpointed the current location. I felt like choking myself when I read it. This Kyrgyzstan was close to Kazakhstan and all in all I was in China far away from the United States. Great l was totally stranded. No one here spoke English and the one I heard were speaking thick accents of some sorts making English sound like a foreign language to me.

I didn’t understand any word that was coming out of their mouth. For some reason the idea of calling the police came in my head but I shook it away. I didn’t...