Why is it that life has a way of working out? What caused you to feel this way? Was it the change in the environment that soothed you to sleep that night? Was it the test you aced the day before leaving? ...
I really enjoyed to contradictory emotions you felt for the sounds of the wildlife, but I know absolutly nothing about music. It would be really cool if you could go back and define some of the words in your text that are not common knowlege. Even cooler to do that and then to redescribe each aspect of the situation by describing the sounds in laymans terms.