Online now getting ready for the holiday, searching flights on Ctrip.com and browsing photos on flickr. So many beautiful places!
This week my bike got messed up. Argh!
It wasn’t quite this bad:
It was parked outside Salvador’s Coffee Shop on Wednesday night (while we were having July 4th festivities) and someone managed to smash into it, bending the front tire to hell. Since it wouldn’t turn, I had to lift the front end and wheel it home on the back tire. Bruised my arm up in the process. Thursday I took the bus, and then Friday morning I dropped the bike off at the fancy bike shop on 一二一 (Yi1 Er4 Yi1) across from main gate of 师大 (Shi1 Da4). I ended up paying an exorbitant 50元 for the repair, but oh well. Anyway, it’s fixed now.
Well, next week is the end of classes. Sounds like our remaining class time will be used learning Mahjong and discussing some Chinese history. Only two of us are taking the exam, so our teacher sent it home with us to complete at our leisure. Yeah, 东方 (Dong1 Fang1) isn’t exactly the pinnacle of rigorous Chinese language learning institutions.
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Eileen and I just got back from our little July 4 hiatus with the Jenkinses. We holed up in a hotel 30 minutes north of Fenton where Mom and Dad live. We brought them up for a short time together on Wednesday. Hope you have a good holiday. love from Dad
Well, your bike didn’t just get banged up a little.. That’s a pretty bad bend. Did they replace it for ¥50 or bend it back into shape?
I’ve already had my first accident, a van came alongside cut in front of me before getting fully ahead… I took a tumble at 20 km/h but thankful just had a few bleeding scrapes. Bike still works fine! :)
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