Behind the wheel with a little too much alcohol is an accident waiting to happen.

At this moment I, Peter, am recovering from a motorcycle accident which was caused by a car driver who had had a little too much to drink.

I was driving home from church on Sunday September 7th when I noticed a car parked on the side of the road and so I automatically went to the middle of the road in order to pass by safely. When I was about 50 meters from the car it suddenly pulled away and made a U-turn. The driver of that car did so without using either a turn signal or turning his headlights on. The only option I had was to go even further to the right but sadly there was no escaping that collision. I got launched over the hood of the car and landed 10 meters further down the road.

Tatjana, who was also making her way home from church, was about 3 minutes behind me with the car. I didn’t have my phone with me and I knew she still had to pass me so I asked someone for a phone and called Tatjana to tell her that I had had an accident. A lot of people stopped to help me. Some of them wanted me to sit up and others wanted me to stay down, which was what I had been thinking because I had no feeling in the lower parts of my legs. An ambulance had already been called.

In the hospital they first cleaned out my wounds and a couple of x-rays were made. The doctor on duty didn’t know whether or not there was a fracture in my ankle because it was pretty swollen. We then decided to go home and try to get a good night’s sleep.

The next morning we headed back to the hospital and there we heard that there probably was a fracture in my ankle. They then made another x-ray and it showed that there was a fracture and so I had to have surgery.The doctor told me I wasn’t allowed to put any weight on my ankle for 6 weeks but that I should keep trying to get some movement into it. This has become my daily task which isn’t very pleasant since my butt hurts pretty badly from the accident.

In the middle of March I went to Chiang Mai with my mom to take the GED test. This test has 5 parts: Language Arts Reading, Language Arts Writing, History, Math, and Science. I finished the tests in 4 days and after a few days I got the results back: I had passed! Wow, what a relieve.
Each test was 2 hours maximum so there was plenty of time to do something fun. Recently a new shopping mall was opened in Chiang Mai so we went to check it out. The nice part about it is that it also has an ice skating ring. My mother even checked to make sure it was real. :) My mom and I went skating, and sure enough even after so many years we could still do it. I only fell once, but sadly I can still, two weeks later, feel it! (don’t laugh because my mom has done that way too much already) The evidence of us skating is visible in the picture.