Bicycle

Of all the things I ever expected to be, a bicycle commuter was never one of them. That just goes to show that I'm not that good at predicting the future.

Monday I purchased a bicycle and yesterday I rode in to school and back for the first time. It took me about forty minutes each way, a little bit quicker albeit much more strenuous than taking the bus. Since the bus costs me 200 yen each way, riding to school will save me about $4 a day for an hour of work. This might not seem cost effective under normal circumstances but as a college student with no income it's a good deal. The extra exercise should be good for me as well.

*EDIT*

Palm Boy asks, "How do people on the streets react to bikers?"

Mostly they just ignore them. If they're really nice they'll move out of the way. There are hundreds of bicyclists everywhere, riding on the sidealks. Everyone is used to them. Most people are bicyclists themselves sometimes.

Woody ask, "PLEASE tell me your bike is the Blue one!!??"

I'd love to tell you that one of those was my bike, unfortunately that would be a lie. My bike is a rusty silver one like 70% of the other bikes here. It seems that almost everyone has the same cheap, junky kind of bike here. You'd think that a country that uses bikes so much would generally ride good ones but that simply isn't the case.