Say hello to my BLOG and my driver's license :)

First of all, greeting my new blog. Everything in this blog, written by me, will be English, except for something that English can't give a right expression (e.g. เช็ดเข้เอ๊ยยยย)

Hoping that my friends gonna forgive me in changing blog address (again) and not writing in Thai.

OK, back to my story.

I'd just got a driver's license for a couple days, very proud of it (T_T).

Yes, I just said I am so proud of it.

First of all, let me told you how important driver's license is. The driver's license is an important photo ID card. Almost every where accept driver's license as a personal id card (แม่งใช้กันแทนบัตรประชาชนเลยครับ). And, of course, I can't drive any car without this license.

It's importance didn't make me sooooo proud of it, not at all. The hardness of getting this card did.

Before I was eligible to have a test, by Louisiana Law, I had to have a basic driving course certificate. This class cost me $35.00 (กรวยเอ๊ย แพงสาดดดด), plus I had to pass the after class examination (no less than 80%), or I lose my $35.00 for nothing (สาดดดด). Luckily, I passed this test and got a certificate. It seems like this test didn't give me any benefit (except for certificate to get a real test), but, by the way, it taught me quite a lot about basic law and rules of driving in US (แต่กรูก็อ่านเองได้สาดดดด หนังสือที่ DMV-Department of Motor Vehicle- เค้าก็แจกฟรี)

OK, that's the first step to get my driver's license. I had that kind of class last month, but didn't have enough free time (and also my friends, who had to took me to the DMV). Then, before going to have a test, I had to review all of content in the book, almost like I never had that class before. The difference is the teacher in that class will emphasize SOMETHING that might be in the real test (พูดตรงๆ แม่งบอกข้อสอบ).

And I took the paper test in the morning. The test was easy, and I could communicate (both listening and speaking) quite well this day (my communication ability is not steady, depending on .... I don't know ว่ะ แม่งแล้วแต่วัน) then I had some confident that the road test is gonna be not hard. It is quite easy to drive here. Almost everything is the same as it was in Thailand, just follow the direction of traffic signs (speed limits, etc.), except for the left-hand side driver and the right-of-way (ประเทศไทยชิดซ้าย ที่นี่ชิดขวา). Mon and I passed the paper test easily.

In the afternoon, I came back to have a road test. I didn't know what happen to me. At that time, I started to got bad communication. (Ohhhhhh sardddd).

Before I drove a car (borrow from my Thai friend here--thanks to you P' Kan--but the real owner is P' Kan's Korean friend), I had to demonstrate the basic car system, e.g. turn light, head light, and horn. My nervousness started to make me got worse communication (T_T). Luckily I can make a right guess about what she (the tester) said.

Then, I started to drive. The tester told me the way (which I had already learned from P' Kan, and from history, the route had never been changed), and I just drove as she said.

The speed limit was changed in some part of the road test, the tester waned me twice about the speed limit. I just follow the car in front of me, and not try to make a traffic jam. After she warned me, I slow down, and the traffic behind me started to be jammed.

In one little street (คำว่า street นี่มันซอยแล้วนะ สำหรับ US) I saw a stop sign (pretty close) and the tester told me to stop. She just said "stop". I thought she want me to stop at the stop sign (like warn me, as she did when she saw me drive over the speed limit), so I didn't pull over (แปลว่าจอดรถ). Then, she started to use a hard voice, I still didn't get her. Finally, she scold, "STOP THE VEHICLE COMPLETELY". กรวยเอ๊ยยยยย, I scream in my head, ใครจะไปรู้ป้ามึงฟะ ว่ามึงจะให้กูหยุดตรงนี้เนี่ย (before the stop sign about 10-20 feet). All I could say (at that time) was "sorry ma'am" (โวยวายเดี๋ยวมันไม่ให้กูผ่าน). Then she gently order me to back up (แปลว่าถอยหลังนะจ๊ะ), stop again and went forward.

After the hardest time (for me) in the test, everything was just fine :)

I had been warned about speed limit and changing lane without blind-spot checking, and passed the road test (WAHAHAHAHAHA).

Sooooo stress, man...

And I got my driver's license, just right after the road test (take a picture and got the card, sooo fast).

Ahhhh... just alleviate me one step....

Now I have to consider about buying a car, hard time again.....

The plan is we (Mon and I) will go to Dallas (near Denton, where Nunn'd just arrived) and get a car. There are a lot of good car there, and their prices are much more cheaper than in Ruston.

I'll post the car buying experience again when I got one.

Thanks to whomever be patient and keep reading until this line :)

FUG U MAN