12 September 2004

Road II

On Friday I did road, but Madeline didn't come so I am not going to witness a test.  And I'm probably not taking my test until later next week, I think I am going back on Thursday but I'm not sure if that's when I'll be taking the test or the pre-test. (Yup, I decided to take a pre-test because I think it will really help.) Road was sorta boring, we just drove around basically and practiced parallel parking a little and then since Madeline didn't come, I got done really early.  So he just dropped me off like 3 blocks from my house.  Which was good because if he took me back to school, I would have had to wait for like an hour and a half for the afterschool bus.

09 September 2004

Road I

Today I had to do road. The whole experience was nervousing, (not as scary as I thought it would be though) fun, boring, and long all at the same time. The only things I had trouble with was 90 degree parking, (I'm fine usually but I just messed it up today) parallel parking, (duh) and maintaining a good speed. 25 MPH is such a crawl! To maintain it, I would a little too fast, so I would slow down a bit. Then I would be going too slow. So then Coach Roylance had to tell me to speed up. The gas pedal is just so touchy in the drivers ed car. You barely touch the pedal and it goes really fast. Oh yeah, and I think I had a lot of problems because it has the duel control pedals. So all the sudden the brake would go down, and I would be like: “What the…?” And then I would realize what he was doing, but it distracted me so much that I did the maneuver wrong until I got used to it. I will probably be taking my test on Monday or around then, I am so scared! I was with a girl named Madeline who’s B-day is on Saturday and she’s taking her test tomorrow. (Which means I will get to observe which will help me A LOT.)