Me and my brother's bikes
To get to school and stuff in Botswana, my dad got bikes for me and my brother.Our bike ride to school here is different from our bike ride to school in Seattle. First of all, we have to get up really early if we are going to bike to school because school starts at 7:15 AM. Coming home from school on our bikes, it's really hot, so I get tired and bike slowly. Today it was 90 degrees coming home! In Seattle it totally isn't as hot as it is in Gaborone, but here there are no steep hills to get up like there are in Seattle. Another thing that is tricky is that people drive on the other side of the road here. When you are crossing streets, you can forget which way to look, so you have to be careful and listen to your dad.
Me and my brother on the street in front of our house (this street is being widened)
This is me riding on the side of the street called Independence
This is a little dirt path that we take to go back to our house
This is on a sidewalk next to the street. The wall you see is the wall around our apartment complex. The big tower of dirt you see is a termite mound.
This is a dirt sidewalk near our house
The president's house is near our school. The street I like riding on the most is the one that goes to the president's house because there are like no cars on it (because only people that live in the house can go there). On that street, you don't have to watch out for traffic and stuff.
Another place we ride is this like long grassy area with dirt paths that go through it and trees, but no cars go through it.
One day before you guys did the Move-a-thon, me and my big brother did the Move-a-thon. I rode 27.9 miles and my big brother rode 32 miles. We biked around our school. We counted by kilometers, not miles.
Me and my brother doing the Move-a-Thon
Me and my brother after the Move-a-Thon