The streets of Darwin

I had taken up a short consultancy contract in the NT for three months. I arrived during the Darwin Festival and was struggling to adjust to the weather and the volume of work required of me. By day id work long hours and at night id go and sit in festival park. those first few days were a blur but I remember festival park well. after the first three months my contract rolled into another 6 months. by the end of the 9 months, I had made more friends here in Darwin than I had from living in WA for 20 plus years. Friends with whom conversations were deeper than the surface and who were more than acquaintances. When I walked the streets, there were so many other people who looked like me and I wasn't standing out as a foreigner. Thats when I knew I wanted to stay here