Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Illegally Done

Suspect?? Of course not! Thank God I'm not. We started last night around 10PM until its almost 1AM. I am very proud to say that I illegally stripped down nervousness, have taken off my fear and I strongly and cautiously take my first step..my very first time to take a wheel. I felt very excited and very happy the first time I had turn on the engine, change the gear, "clutch and break", engage gas and make it finally moving. I can make a turn though not that good. My first practice isn't that bad after all. We almost fell to Roxas canal, bump into the garbage containers..as in big containers and almost hit 3 persons of different places. My teacher who is my co-teacher even get nervous and instead of turning off the engine when I lose the break he got lost as well. Good thing the last minute when we were about to fall, I stepped on the break. Wahahah! That was scary. Here's these 2 guys sitting beside the road when I was so busy controlling the gas, stepping the clutch and changing the gear when I did not notice I was too much on the side. I almost hit them. They really jumped! Oooppss! Sorry! At least I did not kill them. But they were shouting at me. When we cross the first bigger crossing I almost hit another man so instead of hitting him we went all through the canal and almost fell if i haven't manage to step on the break. We were laughing a lot after all. The 1st challenge was to turn that "thing"(i don't now how to call it coz its not a car). I can't control the gas very well so we make the road busy coz my teacher have to turn off the engine before we crash the garbage containers. So we were on the road and makin'it heavy for all the drivers. The second and the third time I made a turn, it was successful and i can even park. Weeee! The most challenging thing was when we were on the real busy road. It is not even busy compared when its morning and traffic light is there. It was pretty late so no traffic light and lesser cars but still its too many for me. The engine stopped like for 5 times and a lot were waiting at our back. I am so pressured to make the engine running again. It was hard. From Roxas to Matina I was driving and we dropped by the gasoline station at Ecoland Caltex before reaching Matina. I made it! I am so having fun! We are using the manual mode as what they call it and I know how to change gear upto the 4th gear. The hardest thing maybe is to go backwards. Haven't tried that. Its my next step maybe. Im so excited for it but there is still a lot to practice. Multi-tasking, keeping on the lane, looking on the mirrors, changing gear while driving, not forgetting the clutch before break or changing gear and controlling the gas..very important. Well, not too bad for a first timer and my teacher said, I ain't that hard to teach. Together with this I am planning to just have fun and forget about something..my emotions. Maybe diverting my strong feelings to something into another something will make me forget whatever it is. Have fun now!..I am happy but it makes me sad..:-(

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