Watch out Netherlands...

[ginnyvos]

I have my driverslicense!

I can still barely believe it but... Oh my god I HAVE it! It's done! After over a year of seemingly endless lessons, dispairing if I'd ever learn, lesson after lesson after lesson after lesson, a horrid examiner for my first test... I passed my drivers test today!

I got it on my second try, which is no more than average, really. I can pick it up at city hall Wednesday next week and then... Then I can borrow my mom's car (lovingly christened 'the cooky jar' by my housemates) and drive... on my own... for real!

It's still unbelievable.

Comments

[skyrat13.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

Be careful!

[ginnyvos.livejournal.com]

I will! Ome of my problems was actually that I'm a bit too careful which in the end only led to obstructing trafic. I managed to tone it down and now I'm good :D

[whymzycal.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[ginnyvos.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm as happy as Goku with a meatbun cart full of meatbuns after nothing to eat for 10 days. ^_____^

[chomiji]

\o/

Congratulations!

[ginnyvos.livejournal.com]

Merci! Still convincing myself it's actually true

[genuinelie.livejournal.com]

Congrats!!!

[ginnyvos.livejournal.com]

Thanks babe! I'm so, so happy with it, you wouldn't believe it...

[oracle-dreams.livejournal.com]

YAY!!!

[ginnyvos.livejournal.com]

:D You can say that again! Seriously, I thought It'd never finish!

How are you Drea? I miss talking to you...

[oracle-dreams.livejournal.com]

Got a new 'puter and still reloading all the messengers, etc... Hit me up on MSN or YIM!

[ginnyvos.livejournal.com]

Haha I'm not usually online on either of those, but I'll check on msn once every while ^___^

Hey I've been wondering... If I get the BC started back up, are you up to getting active again? Dana should be able to get back to RPing once she actually has a day a week OFF after christmas she says so now I'm asking around with the rest of the group... I miss the RP! :(

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!! Very cool... big step toward independence!

[ginnyvos.livejournal.com]

*grins* yeah I'm just about ecstatic! I think driving a car isn't quite as important here as it is over in the US (smaller distances, much better public transport over the country) but it'll make things a lot more easy. Also, I'd still have to borrow my mom's car every time.

[dreya-uberwald.livejournal.com]

Well done :D Most of the people I know have had to take the test three or four times, so getting it on your second attempt sounds pretty good to me. Just be sure to watch out for all of those lesser known driving hazards such as rains of frogs, transdimensional vortices and evil assassins jumping onto your car roof.

[ginnyvos.livejournal.com]

Hmmm I might've gotten it in two times, but I actually spend over a year on the drivinglessons, so I think it kind of evens out...

Oh dear, yeah I'd have to watch out for that wouldn't I? Hmmmm....

[jessiedark.livejournal.com]

Let 'em get out of your way. Go girl-- after coming to a full and complete stop. . .

[ginnyvos.livejournal.com]

:D *glomps* Watch out people, here I come!

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

Vongratulations ... *HUG*


... but be careful ok. ^__^

[ginnyvos.livejournal.com]

Watching out? Isn't that something the rest of the traffic should do? Watch out people, here I come!

[stargate27.livejournal.com]

Congrats! Too bad it is such bad weather now ...

Huggles
Gillie

[ginnyvos.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Good thing I learned to drive in this weather last year or I would've been a LOT more nervous about it than I am now. As it is, I'm pretty much OK with it actually. And anyway, chances are that by the time I'm allowed to pick up my licence it'll be long gone...

[clytemnaestra.livejournal.com]

Congrats! I'm sure you'll love it and will be cruisin' around in no time.

I know it's different there, but I can't ever imagine not being able to drive. It would be impossible to get around a state as big as Arizona without a car!

[ginnyvos.livejournal.com]

*laughs* no time being come Wednesday, since that's when I can pick up my actual licence...

Yeah, it's pretty different around here. Our traffic is based on both cars and bicycles (I know this amused and amazes the hell out of many visiting foreigners, so as it is I cycle to anything within about 45 minutes to an hour cycling distance (this is very normal) and for the rest we have a fairly closely knit network of trains and busses.

I think my whole country might be as big or smaller than Arizona ^^;;;

[clytemnaestra.livejournal.com]

Aww, your icon is cute :)

Oh believe me, I WISH our system was more like yours! I love the Japanese system of trains/subway and wish that more people in the US would wake up and realize that it's a better way to transport people. We have a lot of bikes here too, but the system is definitely NOT built for them, and I am seriously scared to ride my bikes on a lot of roads at rush hour!

(Also, wow - the Netherlands is 16,033 sq mi and AZ is 114,000 sq mi. I know we are known in the SouthWest for wide open spaces and vast mountain ranges, but damn!)

[ginnyvos.livejournal.com]

*grins* I love it!

O.O Holy cow! I knew my country was smaller than many US states, but that´s about 9 times as big! Wow. Just... Wow.

We manage to squeeze about 17.000.000 people on our 16.000 square miles though! :P And, if we're throwing around facts anyway, more bikes than we have people :D

Our public transport is pretty good, even if we do absolutely adore to complain about it (like now, we have maybe 2,5 cm of snow (which, is memory serves, is a little more than or about the same as one inch) and I took an hour longer to make a journey that should've lasted maybe 40 minutes).

[clytemnaestra.livejournal.com]

Wow that's a lot of people!! And it's awesome that you have more bikes than people :) I would love to ride mine more often, but it gets so hot during the year that I can't stand it. Lots of people do, but I can't even stand going outside during the hottest months.

I can sympathize with people getting screwy when it gets cold, though. Since it rarely rains or snows in this part of the state, people FREAK OUT when it starts raining. They drive like crazy people! They either freak out and drive so slow that they're a hazard, or the drive way too fast not realizing that their braking time isn't the same on wet roads. Bah!

So be careful when you do get your license because I'm sure that people are crazy drivers no matter what continent you live on! (I don't have a winter-themed icon, but Sensei looks cold in this one, so I guess it works!) :)

[ginnyvos.livejournal.com]

*giggles* works perfectly!

Hmmm it was the public transport that went all weird. You get a couple of snowflakes and suddenly it get's delayed all over the place. But yes, people also start to drive like traffic hazards. I had one of those idiots in front of my car when I was taking my driving exam. Handled it well enough I'd say! ^___^

*laughs* We have so much rain that people don't really seem to care. The idea of getting so crazy over driving in the rain sounds like a joke to me, but then I see how the Dutch drive in the snow and I completely believe you.

Hmmm I think I know what you mean about the summer being too hot. Some days in summer I hide inside here and than it's only about 30 degrees Celcius. I don't know how hot it gets there, but I'm sure it's hotter than that. I really don't handle heat well.

[clytemnaestra.livejournal.com]

I think if you handle a stressful situation really well - like an idiot driving in the snow - you have a pretty good chance on your driving exam. At least that's what I've heard from people here. I went through a course taught through my school, so I didn't take the official driving test, but rather the one officiated by the school teachers. So that was nice, because it was a bit less stressful than taking a driving test with a stranger! So I'm sure you got brownie points with your instructor :)

I heard that England was all clogged up because of the snow - sounds like a huge pain! And it even made the American news, so it must've been a pretty darn big storm!

I really don't know much about European geography other than the basic country outlines o.0 How close are you to the sea? Does that make it get really cold? In the summer months, it hovers anywhere from 37-44 degrees Celsius (100-112 degrees Fahrenheit) here. Gah!

[stalkerbunny.livejournal.com]

Saying this terribly late... but congratulations! *¤3¤*
I'm so bad at things like left and right (and anything with wheels in general) I'll probably never even attempt learning to drive a car. >3>;;;

I don't know how busy you are these days, but I hope I could catch you on MSN one of these days, it feels like we haven't talked in ages. :') (I also found this old RP of ours... remember Connor and Jady? I'd totally forgotten about it myself and started to read... and was a bit miffed at the end when Jady never found out what Connor's problem was. Damn cliffhanger...! x'D)

[ginnyvos.livejournal.com]

Hey hon!

I know I haven't been around on MSN lately... I've been confining myself to g-chat only for two reasons; one, I'm seriously busy these days and chatting just takes up a lot of time ^^;;
The second is that my computer isn't working properly (I've been meaning to re instal the thing for ages, but you know how these things go...) and it seems to be mostly fine (if slow) when I only open my browser, but as soon as I use aditional programs (MSN, media player, the works) it starts being seriously buggy and slow... So yeah.

Oh wow, yeah, that's ages ago! And ha! At least that means our writing is good enough! ;)

[stalkerbunny.livejournal.com]

In that case I won't even ask if you'd like to continue it...unless you find you have some extra time someday in the future ;3
Just in that case I made a g-chat thingy...maarit . maatta1 @ gmail . com