So Hafeez Center was the place. First Hall road was the place, then Nisbat road and now Hafeez Center. Okay, I thought. What choice do I have but to try? We took the Lahore Metro, which is a raised bus system that blights the city, but provides a much easier, if severely packed way to get to some further parts of town.The women’s section is in the front and the men’s is the rest of the bus. So, Kristeen and I separated there. You have to push your way in. I don’t really push people, but rather maneuver my way into the cracks and make them grow just a little. The day before was really frustrating and being packed on a bus, dripping with sweat is no fun either. Yet, I managed to stay polite with everyone, because really we were all suffering together. I did not want to let my own discomfort make me forget it. People are pretty miserable and agitated on the bus. There is a good deal of pushing to get out and people do get angry at each other. One guy behind me kept talking to his friend about someone not standing on his own weight and leaning on him. He was facing the other way. Then he shoved me a bit. So I turned around and told him I did not realize he was referring to me. I was not leaning on him in any way, but really, this hell hole was no place to try and argue a point. I spoke to him politely and told him that he should have just tapped me on the shoulder and spoken to me so that I would know. The metro bus is packed and runs very frequently, but the public transportation needs of this city are great. Everyone is miserable and uncomfortable with good reason. Yet at the same time, this bus is clearly a vitally important need.Anyway, that was fun. We rode on for a while and eventually got off the bus at the closest stop to our destination and took a rickshaw to Hafeez Center. We walked around and no one had the compressed air cans we were looking for to clean our computers. My laptop was heating up and I hoped that cleaning the dust of Jamshoro out of it might help. At Hafeez Center, we learned that those cans are not available in Pakistan. People use an air blower to clean computers.Well, that was a lot of effort for nothing, once again. How do I learn to ask the right questions, and reduce leg work to get to my goal faster with less pain? I think about this a lot, and hope I can get better at it.So, we hopped on a rickshaw and ate some delicious food at Bundu Khan’s then walked around Liberty Market. My friend Imran was meeting some friends nearby at night. He suggested I visit one of the contacts he sent me as he was not far and then I could join them. The contact was Sohail Azad who runs Check Post, a post production house that specializes in color timing for films. It is an exciting time as the film industry in Pakistan is making a comeback. There are many films being released and an audience eager to watch them. I have not been directly connected to this scene and I was very happy to get a chance to visit.We found the office then head upstairs. It just made me happy to see a beautiful office space with artists working on interesting projects. Sohail sahib greeted us, one of the artists gave us some water and we sat down with a documentary filmmaker who works on films about the endangered wildlife of Pakistan. He showed us some incredible footage from a project he worked on featuring leopards and their habitat.My friend Yaser dropped by and we sat with Sohail and discussed what they are up to and what I am trying to do. I really appreciated the possibilities that we discussed. Perhaps, as Imran had also suggested, I could bring the puppeteers here and work from Lahore. We discussed possible resources and logistics. I got to learn about some other projects that people are working on in Lahore. There are many challenges, but to see people make their films is always inspiring.From there, Yaser dropped Kristeen and I off at Panj Vera, a fun eating spot down the road where we met with Imran and a whole new group of friends. Imran made Kristeen feel right at home immediately with his humor. It felt really good to connect to such a good group of people. Zahid drove all of us transportationaly challenged folks back across town afterwards.