An Addendum to Selina's Post: Arusha's Sounds Part 2

Since reading Selina's blog I have been thinking of more sounds to add to the list.

• party trucks that carry wedding parties or funeral parties. They involve a lot of people either singing traditional kiswahili songs or playing marching band style, all from the bed of a pick up
• gospel trucks that carry two guys with a microphone and giant speakers in the bed, they drive around town telling the good news in kiswahili. This is especially interesting when they pass the loud wedding party trucks.
• buzzing fluorescent lights of our aparments
• sound of generators next door when our power is out, at first we thought this was the sound of rain outside, but no, its just the sound of privelege. :0)
• large group of men singing and running down the road in red t-shirts. we think they are military or police?
• hots pot coming to a boil. they have a very loud and distinct whirring sound that is quite nice.
• pigeons mating outside our work windows... errr.
• pigeons dive bombing our windows (mine is often open, with no screen, so I get very jumpy at this sound)
• on select rainy days, the power at the UN flickers on and off. Its funny how well you can HEAR that. Do you remember the scene in Titanic of the lights flickering on and off in the passageways as the boat filled up with water? That, strangely enough, is what our hallway looks like during these times, just minus the water.

and last night, Eunice and I feel asleep to someone in our apartment complex singing an Arabic ballad.

and today, for the first time since the U.S., I heard a lawn mower. I am still trying to figure out where it was mowing, since the majority of ground here in the city is rocky dirt or concrete.