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Thursday, 8. January 2015
Year of Firsts
ell, 19:09h
As Liz has her "Year of Lasts" I just realized that this year is my year of firsts. It's the first year I'm actually really living away from home (although coming home right about every second weekend), my first year of working (and first year of shifts), my first year that starts with not being in any choir or other musical group (although I'm working hard on that) and my first year of having a driving licence.
And concerning that I had quite a couple of firsts in the last few days. The first time of driving on snow, which is quite fun, but not if you got to get somewhere really fast. The first time of driving my mum's car into the garage (and at the same time the first time with snow on the ground doing that). And today I had the first time of driving home with someone in my car as well as the first time of driving in pouring rain.
The mad thing about really heavy rain is that despite the best efforts of your wipers your windscreen is always wet. It was already dark and a lot of cars going in the opposite direction. Now what happenes if you shine a light onto a wet piece of glass? Refraction. A lot of refraction. So immagine going 90 km/h (which is about 60 mph for all not used to the metric system), when there is a bend in the street and a bus or truck coming at you (on collision course it seems) while your mum on the co-drivers seat is nearly shouting at you to don't drive that far on the right side of the street.
Am I glad that that is over.
And concerning that I had quite a couple of firsts in the last few days. The first time of driving on snow, which is quite fun, but not if you got to get somewhere really fast. The first time of driving my mum's car into the garage (and at the same time the first time with snow on the ground doing that). And today I had the first time of driving home with someone in my car as well as the first time of driving in pouring rain.
The mad thing about really heavy rain is that despite the best efforts of your wipers your windscreen is always wet. It was already dark and a lot of cars going in the opposite direction. Now what happenes if you shine a light onto a wet piece of glass? Refraction. A lot of refraction. So immagine going 90 km/h (which is about 60 mph for all not used to the metric system), when there is a bend in the street and a bus or truck coming at you (on collision course it seems) while your mum on the co-drivers seat is nearly shouting at you to don't drive that far on the right side of the street.
Am I glad that that is over.
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