So my host organisation bought me a bicycle to use and I have had it for 2 weeks. Just a week ago I was coming from a friends place and had my first bicycle accident.
Not an learning experience you would like to actually have.
What happened is that I was driving in between tramline and then relised I have to go to another line on my right and just foolishly turned and of course got stuck in the tramline and flew off from the bicycle. Landed on my right side and hurt my right knee and shoulder quite badly. I was able to calm myself down and slowly go back home. Next morning (Sunday) I realised I need to go to the doctor and so went the emergency on Monday morning first thing. My mentor came with me.
As we arrived we had to go in line and the lady there said we would have to wait about 2-3 hours. Fortunatly, it took just one hour. To have a röntgen from my knee and shoulder. I also got 2 teetanus shots :)
Doctor said that nothing was broken and so could go home and just need to take it easy.
Every volunteer also has the AXA incurence , but the way it mostly works is that you pay in advance and get the money back later. For me this seems quite difficult as even normal check.up is about 52 euros - half of my pocket money. Of course , you can also always come to an agreement with the Host organisation that they would pay first and get the reimbursment. So they also told that we would have to pay first but then my mentor found somebody else to talk to about this and they copied all the documents and so we didn´t have to pay in advance.
So I cannot do any kind of sports for about 1 month- no greek dance or yoga or bicycling or long walks :(
So my advice to you! Be EXTRA careful with the bike! :)
On Tuesday I already went to On-Arrival-Training to Vienna! :)
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