notes on Jasmine's Sound Walk

Wendy's was really crowded with a lot of students and full of different sounds coming from not only students' chatting but music, TV, cell phones, and laptops. As I walked to PCL, I could hear buses/cars passing by, birds singing, and less noisy than Wendy's even though there were still many students on the street. As I went inside the coffee shop, the music attracted me as there were only two people doing their own work without a word. It was a moment when I felt being alone in the coffee shop as it was very quiet. As I walked towards the Texas Union, I could hear a louder noise coming from buses, motorcycle, people, and cars especially coming from Guadalupe street. Going in the Starbucks in the Union was very different from the little coffee shop in PCL. The busy lines of students waiting in line, a busier time for employees to accept orders and make coffee, and various sounds coming from outside Starbucks. Passing Wendy's through ChickFila, I could hear loud noise mixed with all sorts of sound that I wanted to relax my ears for a while. Being on the hallway from Wendy's to ChickFila was hard for me to concentrate in one sound because it was a really busy area. (It was a lunchtime when I got there). When I went up the stairs, it was very quiet. Students were reading books, studying, sleeping that made a distinct difference from downstairs. It seemed that I was in a different building because it was really quiet compared to how loud downstairs was. It was a pleasant experience doing this soundwalk because I had a great time finding something new about this place where I'm there all the time. It was a distinct sound difference that I found from what I hear on the first floor and the second floor.