Summer Bike Challange

So it all started with this beauty. (I'm not talking about the bike.)

Mr. Paul Schram showed me a power point presentation of a bike club he started at Grant Park High School and I was pretty amazed, but too shy to tell him how cool it was. I shrugged it off.

"Cool man, good for you!"

At the time I didn't even own a bike so I couldn't possibly do something that cool. Paul is a pretty cool guy.

During my final practicum block someone from the Winnipeg Parking Authority must have overheard me doubt myself that day. They sent a memo to all parking authority patrols to motivate me to try and run a bike club. I tried to resist, but in the end their lovely yellow and white letters to me convinced me that biking has its perks.

Man, as if that wasn't enough I must have walked under a ladder and broken a few mirrors because I had 2 flat tires in 3 weeks! I am never lucky...

Then I found this bad boy sitting beside a tree.

No, I didn't make that free sign, it was actually free... I took it home and it still didn't click. Why on earth did I bring a broken bike home. I should have found a working one like a normal person.

So the next day Mary dragged me to bath bed and body works beyond and while smelling soap I pondered...

"I wish there was some way I could save the environment, save money, while promoting healthy life styles, and learning hands on skills I could share with my students...."

Then suddenly after smelling a candle that had the lingering smell of coffee being brewed on a campfire I had a vision...

It was Paul... A ghost prospector version of Paul.

He was talking to me through the candle telling me that I should email him and get as much information about bikes and his bike club.

The next day in ELA I got my students to read it to me after I read it myself because that's what great writers do. That night I spent hours drafting an email and I finally had the courage to send it.

I thought he would never reply, but then...

My goal for the summer is to fix this bad boy up. (The bike this time, not Paul.)

Maybe one day I can start a bike club too.