Yesterday

Posted in Training by Dom on April 6th, 2007

So the bike training was…interesting. It was in my homestay village and the language trainer’s were at my house. It was crazy. I said hi to “the a-team” and he gave me some beans.
The training was kind of shoot-from-the-hip. They gave me the “bike manual” and I basically sat and read all the policy to them with some peace corp admin standing right behind me. Kind of awkward and boring. Then I got to the actual, work on bikes part. Which was cool. It was kind of all over the place though. I think we got through everything from stuffing your tire with grass, to never touching your limit screws. Then there were snacks in my old courtyard. But I didn’t get to enjoy them. They were yelling at me to get back in the car so we could drive back. I think I spent a total of 15min of there-but-not-teaching time. And that was with them waiting in the car with it running. Let ‘em wait.

It was cool, as I was finally leaving “the a-team” was on the porch and one of the new trainee’s said “Anyone ever tell you we call that guy ‘Burt Reynolds’?” I informed him that we called him “the a-team.” It was a lovely cross-group-bonding moment.