I have been thinking before the exam that I must write a blog to summarize this experience after passing. But the Odyssey was so much fun that I didn't even feel particularly happy when I got my driver's license. On the way home, my bicycle had a flat tire. There are many coincidences in life, such as finding out after the last exam that the annual subscription for the English learning app was not canceled, and it deducted 20,000 yen from me; such as just getting my driver's license this time, and my bicycle immediately started to self-destruct on the way home.
From starting to learn to drive to getting the license, it took less than a month. I lived and ate at the driving school, and every day was filled with studying the knowledge of driving and practicing. It was fulfilling and thrilling. I also made a good friend. When I mentioned to another friend about the new friend I met at the driving school, she said, "You must not know my senior, right?" It turned out to be true! What's even more coincidental is that during a casual chat during a lunch break, we found out that we have the same online friends, and we even chatted together last year. Our interests and hobbies are also very similar, and we have many common topics.
Before learning to drive, I didn't even know the brake and accelerator, and I didn't know how to open the car window. When the teacher said in class, "When you were young, your mom and dad would drive you to play, and now you have to become a driver yourself." I felt like crying. Our lives are completely different. The first time I rode in a car was in high school, and it wasn't even my own car, just someone giving me a ride. My family didn't buy a car before I graduated from college.
I have nothing, only myself. Watching videos of car accidents, seeing the lives of two little girls taken away, I thought, let me live for them, let me die for them. Because they were loved so deeply. I can only love myself.
At first, I turned the steering wheel blindly, turning a few circles without knowing, not understanding Japanese traffic rules (I don't understand Chinese traffic rules either), and the S-turns were crazy. Later, through practice and watching videos again and again, I found the feeling and successfully passed the provisional license test, entering the second stage of learning. In the second stage, the main focus was on grasping the timing of the green light turning yellow and red, and later I learned to predict the change of the car signal light based on the pedestrian signal light. During the exam, I was too nervous when parking at the end. I felt like I crossed the white line, so I quickly moved a little to the right before parking. When I got off the car, I found that the rear wheel was on the white line. But in the end, I passed. The teacher said, "You parked too close to the left, which is dangerous, but luckily you were driving very slowly."
Finally, there was the written exam for the full license. There were a few questions that I was unsure about, but I didn't expect to score 98 points. It impressed me. There was also a small incident where the pronunciation of my name in pinyin and the pronunciation of the Chinese characters were different, and the police didn't recognize the pronunciation of my Chinese characters, so they forcibly changed it to the pronunciation in pinyin. However, this pronunciation will not be written on the driver's license, so it doesn't matter.