03 May, 2006

fitting right in.

another nice breakfast shared with my choco rice perls and it was off to speaking class. didnt do to much in there, just talking i guess. ha. then it was the first day of my "witch hunting in the middle ages" class. it was packed full. so full that the prof. created a second class time. i stayed in the one i was in. since it is a proseminar i was unsure if i was going to stay. those are the most work here. but then a girl asked what to do if she just needed the course credit not the proseminar credit and if i heard right we just have to do a protokoll which i think is basically a book report kinda thing, but on only one chapter. sweet. so i think that class should be pretty fun. hopefully get my GE for history out of the way. then i went to the elusive mtn bike class again. and even though the scheduel says it was happening today. nope next week. so i went for a 2 hour bike. the view of the alps was even better today. i saw some mtns i had not seen before.
then at 5:30 was the "team presentation" for the bike club here. it was actually a photo shoot. so i went there just to talk to the people and see when they would be riding and all. after a while the guy who i talked to already came and introduced me. so that was nice. then it was photo time for the club. i was give shorts and a jersey and told to put it on, and come in the photo. so i fit right into the new clothes. and then went and got my picture taken. haha. they even have a team car. pretty cool. im excited. then i was told i need the at least the jersey to race. and i can barrow it if i want, or i could buy it for 42€ or i could get the shorts for 30€ or both for 50€. how that works i have no idea...
so tomorrow i am gonna pay the guy and ill have some new bike clothes. neato. then a guy from the news paper came. took some pictures and all. then i was called over to him and the leader guy of the club and i found out he lived for a bit (newspaper guy) in fairbault. that was interesting. i had just ridden my crappy bike over, so i could not go with most of the others who went to go take "action" shots. but i stayed and talked with the organizers of the team and found out that even though i cant race in germany this weekend because i have no license yet there is a race in switzerland about 40 km away that you dont need a license and it is only 3 € to enter. so if i can get to it ill do that one. someone might be going to it from the club and i can ride with them. if not maybe ill take the train. dunno. and its a training race kinda like the opus crits i think. (its a crit) and an hour long. it would be a good first race. so my late afternoon was quite good. i am thinking the team picture will be available some how eventually to me. so when i get it i will put it up.


i figured id just throw in a picture of one of my hills to show how green it is...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

hi jake, gleich willst du nur auf deutsch denken, und dass ist wunderbar. ich habe eine neue fahrrad fur tim zum geburtstag geschenkt. es ist ein 'trek 7.6'. weisst du dieses fahrrad?
wenn du kanst, hoere ich gern uber deine klassen, beide die hexen klasse und die sprechen klasse. wie viele studenten hast du dabei, und woher kommen sie? sind die alle amerikaner? was fur subjekten sprichst du daruber?
ich hoffe dass du fahrrad racing (wie sacht man dass auf deutsch? ...rennen??) dieses wochenende im schweiz kannst. rennen schnell! bis spaeter, jenni

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