Window Gazing: look at the street, scenery outside your window for an hour and describe any 10 things which caught your attention
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Window Gazing: What I view outside my window
Explanation:
My home overlooks a school. The schools are closed for more than a year now due to the pandemic. I would always getting irritated with the noise from the school when it used to function. But now, it is absolutely silent.
I am looking forward to seeing the buzzing activity like before. The students run around shouting and playing. There will be songs and speech that can be heard from the auditorium. All that is gone now.
However, I see a lot of birds have started visiting the area. Peacocks, mynas, pigeons, sparrows, parrots and crows are seen in large numbers. I do find a few squirrels running around. These sights would be rare if the school was filled with students.
There is a lot of activity on the street during the morning time.
I can see many people out on their morning walks, wearing earphones and enjoying some music as they walk.
I can also see our neighbour, who lives across the street. The neighbour is sipping a cup of tea, reading a newspaper and also watching the morning walkers go past her gate.
The milkman comes by with his cart loaded with milk and curd packets, bread and eggs. He goes to each home and delivers the packets.
Many stray dogs follow his cart, hoping to get something in return for their loyalty to the milkman, but he simply carries on with his work.
The dogs spot a cat around a garbage can and start barking loudly. The cat runs for her life, but the dogs continue barking excitedly until they see a neighbour taking his pet dog for a walk.
The neighbour has the dog's leash in one hand and a stick in the other hand, ready to scare away any dogs or monkeys that bother them.
The stray dogs quietly slip away, but the neighbour's dog spots a monkey on our mango tree, and starts barking loudly.
The neighbour pulls the dog along while more monkeys climb up the tree. The mangoes are unripe, but the monkeys test them out and throw the sour mangoes onto the ground in utter disappointment.
The mangoes land very close to some office-goers. They look up in surprise and see me looking outside the window on the first floor, instead of the monkeys on the tree. They give me stern looks, but the car cleaner knows that it's not my doing.
The car cleaner tells them to be cautious of the monkeys. Then he looks up at me and we greet each other. He asks me if I have a holiday. Then I realise that if I keep sitting by the window, I would get late for my classes and quickly run off!