A lovely couple, Teresa and José, have been faithfully coming every Thursday night to the Casa to offer Spanish teaching to anyone.  Don and I were practicing Spanish with them tonight in the lounge when a blaring loud speaker make conversation difficult.

So Don walked to the window overlooking the street below to see what the racket was all about. There was a local Cabletvision truck with 2 loud speakers mounted on the roof blaring advertisements for cable TV. But the driver had parked his truck in the middle of the narrow street and walked away with the loud speakers still blaring away! Amazing!

One thing we’ve learned in Mexico City is that it’s a noisy city with hawking street vendors, men whistling all day long to get driver’s attention to park in their lot, horns honking, sirens wailing and Cablevision trucks with their loud speakers going! At 7:00 a.m. and 10:30 p.m. every day a man walks down the street ringing a big school type bell to announce that the garbage trucks are coming by and it’s time to put the trash out.

Riding the subway (Metro), vendors ride the subway for 6 pesos a day and go through each car hawking their do-dads calling out in loud voices. Frequently, men carry a boom box selling their CDs of Mexican ballads with the volume turned up – I have to plug my ears it’s so loud!

Don and I call these the “Sounds of Mexico”!