Hi. Did I mention my bike was giving me problems? If I didn't mention that before, I am going to mention it now. (And if I did mention that before, I'm still going to.)
A week or two ago I was cycling to school and the chain randomly comes off of one of the gears. It came off the gear with the pedals on it, so that was easy enough to get back on. Then, last week, the chain comes off again, only this time it came off the tire gear, which means I had to take it off both gears so that I could put it back on the rear gear first and then pedal it back onto the front gear. Not only that, but the chain guard broke. I am not sure why nearly every bike in this country has a chain guard on it, but I wish I didn't have one. It makes it hard to fix the chain when it comes off or has other problems (for example, a few months ago I was having problems because the chain guard was sitting lower than it was supposed to, and the chain kept running against the bottom of the guard and making a lot of terrible noise). Anyway, now the chain guard has broken entirely, and there's a part of it that gets in the way of the chain somehow. I haven't been able to tell how exactly because when I have problems, I am riding my bike, and I can't very easily look at what it's doing while trying to also look where I am going. But I think every once in a while the guard catches on the chain, because the chain will "jump" while I'm pedalling. Okay. Then, last week, I thought maybe my rear tire was going a little flat. Last night I discovered that I didn't really have to worry about that, because my front tire now is completely deflated. I have a little tire pump, so I pumped it up to go to the store, and when I came out of the store it was already completely deflated again. Ugh.
The good thing is that Ian still has Amber's bike, and I can use that until mine is fixed. The bad news is that I'll have to tap into my emergency money to have mine repaired because I don't have any extra money this month. It's really frustrating that all of this is happening at the same time, but at least then I can take it in to have it all fixed and not have to go back every 2 months for something different.
In other news, this is my last week of classes before break. I'm not doing much during break. Jenn and I have talked about going to Rotterdam but I don't know if we're actually going to go. Also, we're going to go to IKEA because we love IKEA and why not. Other than that, I'll probably try to get a lot of school work done. Yay, school work. My exam schedule for this year is sort of odd, because thanks to a lot of people being gone on exchange the resits for my January exams won't be until August. Which means I have a lot of time to hold the information on those exams. Or a lot of time to forget. I don't particularly like either option, but I have no other choice. Unfortunately, I have a lot of resits.
Anyway, have a nice day. I'm off to class now.
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