be careful around bbdc

since i'm leaving in a few hours time, you guys can relax a bit when walking around the bbdc area. i should list the times i'm driving, really, because it's then that it's best for anyone to keep off the roads, kerbs included.

yes, i've started my driving lessons, and yes, no one has been injured - yet. i will always have a story to tell at the end of each lesson, because i'm really quite terrible. no only do i stall the car (yes i am learning how to drive a manual car! horrors!), i also mount the kerb. but yesterday's lesson takes the cake.

i was learning how to drive and stop on the slope. i was rather nervous, because during the previous lesson, i couldn't pull the hand brake up, even with both hands. the car kept sliding down the slope, but finally i got the hang of driving on slopes - so i thought. my instructor requested that i do a right turn while stopping on a slope. i was to turn into a two-way street with two lanes for each side of the traffic, and a traffic divider in between. i turned into the rightmost lane for oncoming traffic. the turn was perfect, i was in the centre of the lane for once, and couldn't understand why my instructor jammed the brakes so incredibly hard. then i realised, to my horror but greater amusement, that i have turned into the wrong lane!! luckily there wasn't any traffic at that time. this all sounds all right in the circuit (right abiel?) but i was driving on the roads when this happened. absolutely dangerous because i will have langa-ed any car that was driving along, blissfully unaware of the menace on the road. but i find it really funny also. maybe it's just me.

two million and one things to pack, and for once i can finally say this - i am officially overweight! or, to be more accurate, my luggage is. hopefully the lady lets me through!