So, I bought this bike . . .(Ken)

When I went on the bike tour of Tigre with Ana Inez, she told me I could probably get a used bicycle for about AR$100. Last Sunday, I checked Craig's List and there was a USAmerican from New York (Brooklyn) who was going home the following Wednesday and selling his bike for US$40 (AR$120).
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I contacted him and, as luck would have it, he lived a few blocks from where I go to school. I had to be back to Recoleta for an appointment right after school on Monday, but I would pay him and get the bike Tuesday. He showed up, I paid him, we met the next day, and I rode the bike back to Recoleta from Palermo.
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Traffic here is really crazy during the week. I probably told you that 3 million people live in Capital Federal, but 8 million people work here. So, it was a pretty scary ride home for a novice biker like me. The bike sat on my terrace all week until today, Sunday, when I tool it for my first long ride.
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Despite Sra. Ana´s misgivings , I headed back to the ecological reserve south of Puerto Madero. Today it is hot. It is 9:30 at night now, and it is still 84F and 74% humidity. WhenI was out this afternoon, it was over 90 with a heat index of 106.
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Things were going really well. I was exploring the city much faster than on foot and with a greater degree of personal safety in the dodgey areas. I was having a good time at the Ecological Reserve. There were lots of bike riders and joggers and families picnicing.
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I went about as far as I wanted to go and began to head back home when. . . the pedal broke. The metal just snapped. I was 3 or 4 miles from home. I began walking. By now all the sunscreen had been sweated off, and it was high noon with the summer sun as high as it could be in the diminished ozone layer of the southern hemisphere.
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I took off my shirt and fashioned a head dress somewhat akin to those hats worn by the French Foreigh Legion in the old movies. I hiked for about 25 minutes until I came to a slight decline in the otherwise-level path. I hopped back on the bike to coast. I thought I´d give the pedal nub a try to see if I could get a few more yards out of my bike when I realized that I could kind-of make the pedals work. Yeah! Things are looking up!
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It took me as long to get out of the Ecological reserve as it took me to get there from my apartment with a significant side trip near the port. And I still had to get back to Recoleta from Puerto Madero. It was not really that bad. I think I can fix the bike. There is a bike shop on Scalabrini Ortiz a few blocks from where I to school. Tomorrow, it is back to class. I guess I'd better finish my homework
¡Chau, Suerte!