The sounds of an Ethiopian Morning #BloggingAbroad

Waking up in the morning:

I wake up to sunlight streaming through my windows.  I hear a rooster outside of my house. 

I can hear someone outside crushing coffee beans for morning buna.

I hear people beginning to open their shops for the day.

I hear the local transportation beginning to run.

I can hear the goats, donkeys, and cows outside of my compound.

These are common sounds that I wake up to every morning in Ethiopia and often carry out throughout the entire day.  These sounds generally stay about the same but change in just a slight enough way that you can tell how busy it is outside or how quite and peaceful it might be.  I feel as though how I live here in Ethiopia largely revolves around the noises that I hear outside my house.  Oftentimes, I will base what I do for the day and if I even leave my house based on what I hear.  It’s amazing how I’ve began to rely so much more on my sense of hearing and even smell so much more since coming to Ethiopia.

 

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