personal map story

    I was four and a half, we were in Kmart shopping for my sisters bike,  then I saw it. It was  a pink bike with all of the Disney Princesses and had pink and purple streamers coming out of the ends of the handle bars. When I got home I was so excited to ride it! It was so fun and I thought of it as a huge step up from my old red tricycle, so I felt really good about myself. But then I got bored with it like every kid with a new toy; they play with it for a couple of days then they get bored and forget about it.

A while later I looked out the window to see my brother and sister riding their bikes outside, with only two wheels. I thought about my bike and how I had only rode it with training wheels; I then knew that no matter how hard it was going to be, I would learn how to ride my bike with only two wheels.

    The next day I had my dad take my training wheels off. I walked to the top of the hill and sat on my bike, I could see my entire neighborhood from the top of the hill, it was so colorful with all of the flowers on the blooming bushes in my driveway, and my neighbors bamboo, I could hear the ringing of the booies in Trinidad bay. I was thinking about how my siblings and parents would be so proud of me after I told them about my big accomplishment, I lifted my feet onto the pedals and the bike slowly started to move, it quickly sped up. I was going so fast I felt like I was in a car, with the wind blowing in my hair. I was so proud of myself and when I past my house at the bottom of the hill I saw my brother standing in the driveway and he yelled to me “when did you learn how to ride with two wheels”? and I yelled back “today”! I turned the corner onto Vanwycke street and when I got to the end I made a “U turn”, my turn was too sharp, I fell and it hurt so much. I guess thats what I get for going down a big hill the first time riding without my training wheels.

    from then on I hated my bike, and was too scared of falling to ride it again. I left my bike to sit in my dark garage, alone and unused. But about three and a half years later I gave bike riding another chance, being able to go down the big hill by my house without falling down and now bike riding is one of my favorite activities.