First Driving lesson

Finally booked my first ever driving lesson with Affordable Driving School. I was supposed to have my first lesson on last Friday (1 May) but the instructor called to inform me that 2 of the instructors were on leave thus she could not meet me for my first lesson. In the end we arranged to have it today at 4pm. I forgot totally that it was Labour Day today in Australia. If I had remembered it, I would have taken the lesson at 2pm as she suggested. I can only take late evening classes as I needed to wait till Adrian is back from work to look after the kids before I can leave the house.

Anyway, it was pretty fun. The instructor, Denice is a really sweet lady. No pressure no nothing just lots of jokes and fun. She started off with me sitting in the hot seat - the driver seat. Taught me about the left/right signal, adjustment of the mirrors and seat. And soon she started off with me driving to along Wallace Street towards Kuran Street. I was pretty nervous and luckily she was there to guide me. While on Kuran Street, it was more of a residential area thus the traffic was pretty clear. Learnt how to perform left and right turns and made quite a bit of mistakes here and there. We even drove on the main road, Gympie Road and went through a roundabout. We even made a reverse just outside my house. Honestly I was just looking at the road and nothing else. I did not even take a glace at the various mirrors after the adjustment at the beginning of the lesson. At the end of the lesson, Denice did comment on my left/right turn. She said that I was not fast in straightening right after making the turn. Told me that I had to straighten it earlier so as not to turn onto the oncoming traffic lane. Basically she as very happy with me on my first lesson and said I was actually better than many of her students who could have already taken maybe 7 lessons with her. Phew....Till the next lesson on next Thursday.

So tired now, not from the lesson busy becuase both Adrian and I stayed up to watch the last disc of Little Nonya till I think around 3am. Off to bed now after putting the kids to bed. Till then

Updated Aust Time: 8.06pm