sooooo excited. today one of the ladies from the church handed me the keys to her car, brave woman of faith that she must be and i DROVE!!!!!!!!!!!! its was HECTIC!!!! and awesome. Myself and the two dutch girls went out together shopping at a mall about 15 minutes away. it was CRAZY i have pictures and i will put them up later when i get off work. but OHHHH SO fun!!! driving first of all on the right side of the car. so everything is backwards. thankfullly i know how to drive standard because all the cars here are standards. but everything is backwards to what i'm used to and i'm sitting on the opposite side of the CAR!!! AND i'm driving on the left hand side of the road!!! haha.. it was intense. at one point i was going to slow for one fellow who decided to weave to the side of the road, flail his arms at me and and honk repeatedly. and i just idnored him... cheerfully. i believe i started to laugh actually. and then when i was at a set of lights turning left i was a bit unsure because the light was red but it had a flashing arrow. a garbage truck behind me was absolutely going beserk honking and waving at me... and i just kept ignoring him and did my thing. so... good stuff. staying to the left is not as hard as i thought it would be BUT figuring out how to make turns is crazy!!! when do you go.. what lane do you end up it. its all opposite what i'm used to. i also used my first sought african roundabout today and again... its the whole staying left thing. i think that being an aggressive driver is something that will come in handy for me over here. lol. so much fun and soooooo stressful. i have a few gray hairs now but WOW baby i've already driven in AFRICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! haha... some of you will understand how happy i am right now. and a shout out to Mark D. thanks for telling me to get my international license!!!!!!!
every stop light or stop sign there are people on the side that immediatly come to you car and try to sell you stuff and its a bit unnerving but you just ignore them and its all good
i actually bought some clothes today as well because the price was so cheap. i got the cutest little blouse for 79.00 rand which is like... 10 bucks canadian.... awesome!
Ok i'm off to work now but i will post pictures of the drive later tonight when i get off...... !~!!!!!!!!!
i'm flying high right now!!!
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I knew you could do it, after all, you drove in LA!
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