Getting a new bike, a nice sunset, and a dinner with locals

Today I get a new bike, as on the old one, I am no longer able to move the bike foward: When I pedale, nothing happen, there must be some problems in the cogset (deu: “Schaltkassette”). I found this new one on the internet and it is just next to the university: A Chinese guy is selling it to me, and we are even adding some other part to it. (I was thinking: “what could i still need on a bike”, then i asked him if he’s got lights, baggage porters, fenders (deu: Schutzbleche), etc. And finally I gave him my old bike for a 10$ discount and we added some other stuff. – 70$ in total.

This Chinese guy has really everything you can think of: Plenty of different tools and pieces for bikes.

At Columbia lake, I got a really nice view of the setting sun, behind the autumn leaves.

Then I was invited at the home of  local people, I met the father on my “Swiss trip in Waterloo”. (2009-09-19)

It was very impressive to see the life of a Canadian family like this one. As they have a son, who has a physical disability (he is less tall and his voice is somewhat hard to understand in the beginning), who is of the same age as me. He plays the piano and works at burger king. The father is a graduate of UW in Electrical Engineering. And the daugther is starting next year at UW. During the evening Vivaldi’s “Four seasons” were playing, and we ate some good pasta.