Apprendiendo

I am learning a lot of new information here in Arequipa. I´m learning that I like to sleep with earplugs. It´s not that the rooster that "cock-a-doodle-doo´s" from 3am to 10pm bothers me. He´s pretty far away. Nor does that cat that woke me up thinking that a little girl had fallen in a well and had been calling for help for 17 hours. No, it´s not those. It´s also not the garbage trucks here in Arequipa that play a melody like an ice-cream truck. I think it´s the song Holly practiced and practiced and practiced on the piano when we were kids (Holly informs me it's Beethoven's "Fur Elise"). I´m very familiar with it. Nope. Nor is it the guys who ride up and down the streets in the mornings on their tricycles (really they´re bikes, with big platforms to carry merchandise to sell), announcing what they are selling. At least that´s what I think they´re saying. Their voices are so garbled by the megaphone that, despite my progress in my Spanish classes, I have no damn idea what the hell they´re saying. Nope. I´m used to it. Almost comforting by now. I sleep like a baby, despite these sounds. Just as long as I got my earplugs.

Oh, and my Spanish is coming along just fine.