My final driving lesson was on Monday and, as expected, I’m not road safe enough to get a permit without supervision. The instructor did say I made a lot of progress in the past few lessons, especially on the longer, calmer stretches of road I tend to do just fine. It’s still the busy town […]
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Dare to Drive – Part VII. Small victories
Today’s lesson went much better than Saturday’s, even though I was a LOT more nervous beforehand. I was actually pretty close to an anxiety attack thinking about how bad it went last time. I tend to do this thing where I make things worse in my head than they actually are going to be. That […]
Dare to Drive – Part VI. My brain needs an upgrade
I was supposed to have lessons 3 days in a row but something went wrong yesterday and there ended up not being a car available. This probably is a good thing as it means the last lesson won’t be next week but the week after. I say last but I already know I need more […]
Dare to Drive – Part V. Parking and paying attention
It had been a full 2 weeks between the previous lesson and this one but, to my surprise, I hadn’t forgotten everything. In fact I’m starting to get the hang of the mechanics of driving, the things you need to learn to do automatically so you can pay attention to everything else that is going […]
Dare to Drive – Part II. To and fro, Stop and go…
My lesson today was pretty intense again -i think driving in general is intense when you start out- but I did feel like I was making some progress. I had a different instructor this time who was much calmer than the previous one which did wonders. We started with pretty much the same things as last […]