A Street with Many Sounds, Angela Ann, Koprivshtitsa

mystreet — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:15:00 -0000

I have an apartment but my life extends beyond its walls to the streets around my apartment building. Every day I talk with my neighbors, play with the kids who live in the block, sit outside with my friend, her chicken roaming around, and watch the world go by.

The sounds from my street are my daily clock. The crowing of the rooster wakes me and the church bell announces the beginning and the end of my day. I have dinner to the sound of the cows returning, I hear their moos when the gate is closed. I go to bed with the cats’ meowing and the dogs’ barking.

As I am writing this, someone is cutting wood and “Crazy Frog” is playing on the radio. I like my street in the U.S. -- it is quieter but the sounds and life in my Bulgarian street here are important to me. Many years from now they will be my strongest memories from Bulgaria. I will never forget the people and the sounds in this street. We all have a house or an apartment but we need to go out to the street, to discover the people and the things that make it our home.

*Angela works for the Peace Corps in Koprivshtitsa. She has lived in Bulgaria for two years.

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