last week we went to Germany and spent a week doing multiple things that i wont mention now, but basically seeing the other teams. the first night we arrived we had a team meeting and made some small talk. there was another guy in the castle that had been working there for 5 months already. he was, Francis a black guy from Nigeria. one of the guys started talking to him and found out that there was a lake neer by.
a little later that night after all the activities were done, we got all the guys together and discussed the possibilty of going to that lake. the male vote won out and we went to get directions from Francis. he was asleep when we found him but we woke him up and we wouldnt tell us directions unless we let him come with us. there was no way we could deny him. we rounded up some very abused, slightly working bikes and headed for the aqua.
the journey was long and we had two bikes malfunction by the end so one person had to ride on the back basket and another on the front handle bars. we were at the mercy of Francis. he took us through corn and wheat fields, on a highway and finally to the lake. the conversation on the way consisted of bike talk and Francis telling us how crazy he was.
my favorite part was the adrenaline rush of following a strange black man through the fields of a European country to a large lake (it ended up being an old quarry that collected rain water)
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