Triumph

Finally, after a month of riding the family´s bike I actually was able to ride it for the first time today. I made it through the entire day not crashing into any bushes, or people, or falling in the street. Ever since I came to germany I have been trying to learn how to ride a bike.... I know how to ride a bike, but I am no armstrong on a bike. Everyday it seems I crash in the same places too, I mean you would think after the first two weeks I would expect the crash coming and try to avoid it, but....no i still do the same thing and fall in the same place everytime and its been a month now. I think it was not just the fact that today I did not fall in the street, or clutched onto my handle breaks all the way down the hills, or even hit a curb that i went over and my bike didnt. The greatest triumph on the bike today was this little path i take to get to my school.
Every morning one of my friends from volleyball comes to my house and picks me up, she usually uses no hands while riding her bike, and I have only attempted to do that once before I learned that I have no balance on a bike. I can ride with one hand, but my other hand is still clutched firmly around the handle break. Well anyway, Sophie and I go to school and take every kind of road there is to get there. We take curved roads, gravel, rocks, we take the sidewalks, crosswalks, we go over curbs, sticks, holes, and every crack..... we pretty much go over everthing everyday, but there is this one spot on this path we take through the park that goes up hill and there are two fence like posts sticking out in the path __--- like that except we are heading up hill going through this. Sophie makes it through safetly but i usually crash into the first fence fall of my bike and than walk the rest of the way up hill till i can remount my bike. Now I have tried everything to get through this one spot, i have tried going faster, slower, i have even gotten off my bike before it but somehow my pegs still catch onto this fence. Today i did not even know it was aprouching and i flew up the hill going well as fast as i normally will. I saw the fence in the corner of my eye and i wiggled the front tire of my bike, somehow missing both fences. It was the first day I have not had to walk up the hill pushing my bike and even though I have not a single clue how I did it, I now know to expect the unexpected, and hey maybe tomorrow i wont crash again either, and if I do.... ill just walk up the hill :D.