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howler monkeys in the distance, fierce sounding growls from cute little monkeys that would scare the crap out of you if you were walking through the jungle, the sun was setting and the light was getting dim. the night that's rent by the sounds of the boys cd full blast at 5 a.m. - their 30 second alarm clock, the crickets (?) with their constant high pitch, the songs of the various birds as they awaken (i've never been quiet or still long enough i guess to hear them before) soft sounds of the boys as they struggle through various layers of consciousness trying to wake fully, the creaking beds as they move on them, someone snoring softly and of course the never ending screech of the roosters in the neighbourhood and in particular the one outside my window. as dawn breaks and the house comes alive the sound of laundry going on, food cooking, quiet footfalls and then the sound of kilometros as it is cycled repeatedly, quietly on the cd player. i can no longer hear the rats scurrying beneath my bed or the other sounds of the night that i wonder about.
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the cicadas are louder than any siren i've ever heard here...and the chickens cooing under the house as they roost in the night....
Are you sure those "rats" are not rat sized cockraoches? I had a whole community of them living under my bed when i was there
definitely rats, although the cockroaches are rat sized too. one day i jumped as a rat ran 2 feet away from me in my bedroom. it startled me and i yelped and mimi and danny came running but they were already chasing it. it got away though. this is definitely not the place to be when you're really squeamish.
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