biking in circles

so today, i decided to try out my new bike... it is a cheap fairly crappy bike with back pedal breaks, no gears and is overall a bit dodgy... but i am excited to have more freedom to explore outside the bus system and now i am getting the hang of it. i thought i could figure out how to bike to the city center so i could do some work at studio... so i took off on a bike trail and just started going in what i thought was generally the right direction. hahahha...

for those of you who know my wonderful sense of direction first hand you won't be surprised that i ended up in the middle of the woods with no idea where i was. it started to rain a bit, but i was warmly dressed, so i just kept turning and following random paths through the woods. (the bike paths are really nice here and very flat, which is good since i am still working on getting the braking down).. so i kept going and i guess i must have made a giant circle because pretty soon i was in a neighborhood, unfamiliar but friendly looking...

i kept going and then out of nowhere was the big lake that is a 20 min walk away from campus... i found myself on the beach where i had walked to on one of my first days here. the first time i was at the beach the surrounding birch trees were green and lush, and now there are only a few stray golden leaves hanging on. the sky was blue the first time, and today it is grey and full, creating a somewhat ominous diffuse light with the forshadow of winter to come.

by the time i got back to campus it was raining pretty hard, so i took the bus into town and now am at studio. before i came to studio, i stopped by my french friends anaïs, juliette and emilien´s new apartment (just across the street from our studio building) and they were excited to show me the place. it is sad not having the girls live with me anymore, but they gave me a key to their place so i can always go over, use their internet and make myself at home... it is good to have friends.

well, now i must get down to some work...send me some email updates so i have a reason to take a break!