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My first real drive

This Saturday we went to a party at a sort of ‘Party Farm’ outside the town of Hoevelaken. This seemed like a nice ‘Maiden Voyage’ to get the hang of our (automatic handling) car and such.

Here’s the trip I ended up driving. The destinations in between were places where I had to reverse in order to find the address I was looking for.

While driving northbound over the A30 it suddenly started raining so hard, the windshield wipers couldn’t keep up. Not the type of weather you’d want to have when you’ve barely got the hang of the car you’re driving

And then after leaving the A30, as can be seen on the map, I drove on a road which had really annoying turns.
After that, when I was past Hoevelaken, I had to drive on very narrow roads. And I don’t know why but people in Hoevelaken seem to like big American cars or something, and they really don’t like making way for approaching cars…

So all in all it was a pretty tough drive, but I did okay.

In other news, I’m going to the UK this Friday to go to the TT-Forums meeting and to visit my sister in Oxford.
Exciting stuff.

The day on which I was born

Is today!
I have been annoying people for 19 years now.

Funnily enough I can go pick up my driver’s license today as well - some present!

And not so funnily enough I have to present the prototype I produced during the school project today, as well… Which is also the reason why this post is so short - I’m working on finishing the prototype

Driving Test ✓

I’m going to hope that my RSS feed/wordpress shows that checkmark sign correctly.

Anyhow, I passed my driving test. Apparently I drove for a very long time - 40 minutes. I was driving the last car to return to the center

I thought I drove pretty well, but he didn’t seem as impressed. Then again I hear the guy’s not the easiest one to have as your examiner, so I’m not going to care about his opinion too much :-p.

Now I just have to finish school, which will be somewhat of a bitch because the deadline’s Thursday and there’s still a bunch of stuff that needs to be done.