Monday, July 21, 2008

My first driving lesson

My cousin, Feng, has left. :(

I had my first driving lesson today in the morning. My instructor, Sam, kept saying, 'Hmm, first lesson usually very relaxed.' Because I'm learning to drive a manual car, I had to learn how to depress clutch fully and then lightly [like really lightly!] depress accelerator and slowly [real slowly!] release clutch. I stalled the car a few times and the car vibrated a bit sometimes.

Sam cheated me of 5 minutes of lesson. I'm being picky about this because one lesson costs about $65 for 1 hour and 40 mins. To all future learner drivers, if you want to learn manual next time, PLEASE DO NOT LEARN FROM SCHOOL, GO GET A PRIVATE INSTRUCTOR!

One thing I need and must learn by the time I go SMU is to learn how to budget my money. Maybe I should go sign up for some financial course on how to be money-wise, but wait, that costs money right?