Whistling.

My first day in India was quite shocking, but I was prepared for that. I wasn’t really scared, I did not panic, I was just calmly taking things as they were. Dirt, noise, crazy traffic, beggars all of that I read about and I knew I’m going to have to face it.

But for one thing I wasn’t prepared at all.

I spent that night at the AIESEC guy place (greetings from this place Yatin, it was awesome!), who introduced me to local food and habits a bit. And when I was just about to go to sleep, I heard a repeating, approaching whistling from the outside. I asked Yatin what it was, and he told me, it’s the security guard and he’s whistling to alarm potential thieves that he’s around, not sleeping.

He whistled throughout the night, so I barerly could sleep.

Now I’m used to it and I sleep deep, uninterrupted dreams. In my area they’re whistling every night now. But I still don’t understand. How could letting the thief know precisly where is the guard help him protecting the district? Maybe someone could explain?…