What's that sound?

"It's just the Muslims praying." "Ah...!" I've never actually heard it before...But now I hear that sound many times a day. When I sit in the classroom learning French, I suddenly hear something that sounds like shooting. I react at once. Then our teacher tells us that it's just the military training. The "one-year-volunteers" also tell me that they found out that the military has shooting training in the "mango forest", as we call it, where the boys are jogging regularly. One day they saw many soldiers training... So we should be careful when we go into the forest.

There are many different sounds here. Suddenly I hear someone outside whistling for me or saying "bonjour". I open the door, just to find our parrot sitting in his cage, expectantly awaiting a pat on the head. Then when we are driving in the town there's a lot of honking. No one follows the traffic rules, so it's just to make people watch out. Honk when you want people to be aware of the situation. That's every time you pass a motorcycle or pass people walking along the road, in other words; almost all the time!

Right now I hear the sound of the grasshoppers just outside, and the wild dogs barking from far away!

"New sounds in another country are always a wonder!" (Quote: Johanne Teresie)