Blog Post# 2 Sounds in the Streets
My job is approximately 1.5 miles away from my house. So that means I walk nearly 3 miles every day and until this assignment I never realized that I never paid attention to the sounds around me. I’ve always drowned out the world with my music in my ear when I walk because I thought it made it easier to concentrate. Yesterday I decided to take off the headphone and for once, just listen. It was loud and kind of jarring at first. I walk down a busy street in Astoria, one that is constantly filled with people and cars. The sounds of cars honking and loud music blasting from their stereos followed me all the way to work and on my way back home. On my way to work I passed by one middle school and one high school and a day care center so the sounds of children screaming, crying, laughing, cursing, chatting were almost constantly in my ear as I walked passed each block. I heard the sound of the public bus opening and closing it’s doors, the weird sound the bus seems to make every time it sto...