REFLECTION 2: Lisboa.Bogotá/DOGSyBICIS
Although this isn't really that interesting, it must be written down.
A group of dogs attacked me. Scared me out of my mind. I was biking through the sketchiest part of where I should have/could have taken the detour. But I wanted to get off the main drag of calle 80. They all came (6 dogs I think) at me at once, and got really violent really fast. One grabbed by foot as I was trying to pedal. I yelled 'no' and they wouldn't stop. I had to raise my feet up above them, they were getting rowdier and rowdier, as if feeding of the other's violence. If I stopped peddling, I would've fallen over. So I peddled. One bit. Not deep, over the sock, but I was scared- I couldn't see how deep it was, I just kept going. Crying. Biking. To the Centro Musical- didn't know what else to do. Finally when I arrived there, I took off my sock to find a small puncture- and my students told me 'no, profe, you don't have to be scared, so many of the dogs have their rabies shot'. I didn't go to the Dr. for 3 days because I was teaching. And stupid. (When you are in Lisboa, with those kids, in those conditions, something puts it all in 'perspective', and I felt at that time that it was more important to teach those kids than run to the hospital...it's not like my leg was falling off or something- but in retrospect...) Thank goodness the dog didn't have rabies and I didn't die.
Still getting over my newfound fear of all dogs off leashes, especially big ones. I'm enjoying dog therapy: i.e.: any dog I know, I let close to me, and try to get over my fear- it's a year later and it's still there.
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