IN STEREO

It’s a cool area – there’s no cars, no traffic. It’s so quiet. You can hear the noises of the birds. I like to come here to relax. It’s like a forest, you know. The good thing is to keep it the way it is, for the birds. Nobody touches it. Nobody destroys the forest; they don’t destroy the land with buildings. When you start building, you kill the forest, you kill the land, so there’s nothing left for the animals. Everything is gone for them, so they will start to leave, to go to another area. Look around you: the whole town is very small, right? Everybody’s building, building, building. Some people have some land around their houses, but it’s not that big, you know. Sometimes you need someplace to go if you feel like you don’t want to see anybody, or just to sit alone. That’s the cool thing here: you have nobody here bothering you.

In the night, at sunset, it’s very beautiful. Maybe we’ll see it. Behind the mountain, it’s all red. A few minutes and it’s going to change. See how it changes? We have a good community here, you know. We know one another over here. It’s like a small town. And the culture here is a little bit different – we like to keep connected with one another. We sit together every night; we talk about what’s going on. Yesterday we were here. We had a barbecue and the family sat here all together. It was so fun, so beautiful. When you sit here and nobody bothers you, you don’t feel the time – it runs out very fast, you know. Time moves very fast. When you enjoy your time, you don’t feel it. At the end of the story, you need someplace to relax, you know. Someplace to have… fresh air, let’s say that. – Issa M.