making money.

well yesterday not a whole lot happened. had one class and then the weekend started. went for a bike. hit the hills nice and hard, felt pretty good. and then came home and that was pretty much may 4th.

my entertainment. watching kid throw water ballons at cars.
today i woke up to thunder. no rain. just thunder, sat around a bit. tried calling someone about an advertisement in the paper that said they needed garden(yard) help once a week. perfect. but no one was home. ill try again tomorrow. then i went for a bike, had no idea where i was going to go, but ended up starting to go around the Untersee (lower part of the lake), made it aways then instead of following the flat bike trail around one part i took the over land route. up a hill down a hill. quite nice actually. both bigish hills. then got to switzerland and instead of following the lake went up into the hills again. got a bit lost, eventually got going in the right direction had a wonderful decent and was back at the lake. thus making my way home very easy to find. oh it also got sunny about 20 minutes after i started.
then after my shower i was just about to go to the store to get some food for weekend, not that i needed it tonight (luckily) but so i wouldnt have to go tomorrow. but as i was getting ready to go i found a note next to my door. translated in short it said. "i need you come to this place." i went and it was a guy who needed bike fixing help. i then remember last week i put up a peice of paper that said "bike repairs, cheap, jake room 417." and so i helped him with what should have been an hour job, but was closer to 2:15 or 20. because of a stupid shifter, but eventually i got it working and collected 15€. wahhooo. i feel rich! haha.

a few observations on the germans:
first.
i have found out how to tell who is a really fast biker and who isnt. it requires a few quick observations. just judging by speed here does not work. people go super hard for a while then just die, so you never can be sure about that. but anyways. first you look at their clothes, do they match? are they for a team. if yes continue, if no quick check the bike, then continue or stop. second check the bike. is it nice? if yes, then continue. how much clothes are they wearing? this is the biggy. the day i rode with bert it was nearly 75 and he had long sleeve jersey and leg warmers on. and others who seem to be fast also wear lots. i dunno why they wear so much but it seems to be such as mentioned above.

second.
german drivers (and some swiss) piss me off. they drive insanely fast, and when you are biking they love to rev the engine as they pass. pretty much everyone does it. why i do not know. they also often decide turning the wheel a lot is too much work so they come pretty close. i have decided if it is worse then american drivers or not. i think that just the speedlimitless roads are what does it. with a limit (in a small village) its never too bad, but on the open road. watch out! but i never get honked at here. well i guess not never, last week was the first time since coming south.

third.
many young teenagers. (guys) all seem to want to be gangsterish. they wear baggy clothes and all, and walk around playing rap or techno on their cell phones (which act as speakers). put their hair in mohawks, or dye it. and of course if they are id say around 16 smoke. maybe it is the same at home? but i have not seen it there. i dont know why so many act this way, but they do.

fourth.
cross walks. something i will never understand. there i am biking along an empty road. not a car around and ahead is a stop light, with a cross walk. in all but a few cases someone is standing at the light, waiting. why? for the walk sign to come on...the germans are obsessed with the cross walk, and not going across till it says too. they will wait through 2 or 3 rounds of cars before even thinking about going during the red. even when no cars they wait. sure your supposed to, but noone at home or in other countries seems to wait. when its open they go. weird...