tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732769931105431591.post4586368600944986176..comments2022-12-12T08:28:47.450-05:00Comments on My Slice of Peru: Quote the Raven – “Not Again!”Chiclayo gringohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17827728983722207575noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732769931105431591.post-30970637530630652142010-04-19T10:13:43.429-05:002010-04-19T10:13:43.429-05:00Although we have had to bear up with a LOT of nois...Although we have had to bear up with a LOT of noise in other places we lived in SA; Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua; here in Los Organos, Piura, Peru, we have gotten into a real nice setting.<br /><br />We are only two blocks from the central plaza and market, but being a small town, semi tourist, the expected noise is just not there! Surprise! <br /><br />Kitty corner to us is also a large grade school, but again the only time we really notice the noise from there is on Mondays, the day of 'saludo a la bandera.<br /><br />All in all a great place to live. It would be nice to have one room with air conditioning, though!<br /><br />David and Lin<br />http://www.inside-peru.com/pictures-of-peru.htmlDavid Schneiderhttp://www.inside-peru.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732769931105431591.post-52270862786856844112010-03-23T18:28:44.732-05:002010-03-23T18:28:44.732-05:00Hi Tom,
You are right about the noise level in Pe...Hi Tom,<br /><br />You are right about the noise level in Peru. The silence in my old neighborhood is one of the things I miss the most about the US. Here in Miraflores, I live in a five story building of apartments. There are two little girls in the apartment below and two little boys in the apartment on my floor. I hear everything these four children say and acream, and I also hear their cries when it's time to go to bed, or they have to eat food they don't like. Fortunately, I also hear them laughing and playing, and that brightens a day. <br /><br />Childrens' voices are not the real problem. I could stay forever in this apartment if that were the only source of noise. The biggest problem are the adults who turn on radios at high volume at 6am, who honk their carhorns in front of the building at all hours of the day or night, or who play loud music in all-night parties. Our neighbor on the fifth floor has a preference for parties that end with breakfast at 7am, and only at that time, does he lower the volume (doesn't turn it off) of his salsa music.<br /><br />One day, when the stillness and emptiness of the streets in my old neighborhood made me unhappy, I nicknamed the place "Death Valley". As I write this note, I hear several of my neighbors' conversations, the sound of somebody's washing machine, and the news on the radio in someone else's apartment. Death Valley never seemed a more welcoming and appealing place! <br /><br />My mother, who lives in a 1100 square meter property in La Molina, with her house surrounded by gardens on all four sides, also must endure traffic sounds and all night parties. She's lived there for forty years and is convinced, as I have become too, that things will be the same always. Fortunately, I have found enough of other good things about life in Peru to make the experience a positive one, overall. <br /><br />Thank you for writing so well about one of the topics that, literally, keep me up at night!<br /><br />SoniaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com