I'm a car

Yes. By Ontario Provincial Law, I am a car right now. That is because I have a bike. And as a biking participant in traffic, I get treated as a car. Unfortunately I am not as fast and as strong yet, but I just got started. 

I bought my bike from Carlos' (the ecuadorian intern) roommate who moved to Vancouver and obviously could not take his bike with him. I feel a little bit bad because it is a very expensive and good bike and I only payed 70$ for it, including a lock, but I guess that's life. The bike has 21 gears, but I only know how to use 7 of them, which is enough for me. And it is much more flashy and fancy than all the bikes I had before, because it is a Mountainbike. Those are obviously not necessary in the Netherlands, but here they are. University and downtown are on hills and my house is in the valley between them. Anywhere I go, I arrive very tired. But after a long day at university I just get on my bike and I am home in no time and with no effort. Unfortunately the hill university is on is very steep, so me and my bike get very fast on the way down. Stay tuned for news on upcoming accidents :P

Apart from buying my bike, this week was a very busy week for AIESEC. We got our shirts, the last two days were clubdays, so I was standing in the University Centre all day having people walking past and saying: "Oh, you're from AIESEC. You were in my class the other day/someone told me about you/I saw it on the internet and I want to join." It was very easy and at the moment it seems like it was also very successful. Before the clubdays I was sending out emails, making posters and doing classroom presentations. And, the most special marketing thing I ever did: we wrote AIESEC things with chalk all over Campus. It all was a lot of fun, but I realize today how tiring it also is.  

So I'm glad it's weekend and I have two days when I don't have to bike up the hill and can do what I want to. Read, go to the farmers market, go to the movies, go running at the river oh and Krista wants to take me to a Cowboy's bar tomorrow. I might stage a bike-accident to avoid that. And I am soooooo excited about next week, when we have infosessions and the first General Meeting of the semester and I will discover if my work payed off and we actually get members. All the Vice Presidents are curious about how it will be if we are actually having other people to do all the things we're doing on ourselves right now.

Unfortunately Guelph is not a very exciting place, so I don't have really exciting things to tell. I almost gave up hope that that will ever change.