24th of June. It didn’t start good 😔 oh no it started with migraine with aurora 05:50 am. Took my medicine and ate breakfast. Texted my driving school teacher, to inform him. Did all I could to get it away. My goal was to do the very last mandatory driving test without migraine.
Catched the planned bus. Got to the driving school before meeting up time (06:58 am) as was 07:10 am.
Went through the car and all that I need to on what is what and where I found it.
Driving off to the traficstastion (where it all starts), drove some nessesary streets incase of if that’s where I would be driving with the sensor from the traficstastion.
I have to say, I have never before, been driving with my migraine medication. So this was wierd and I wouldn’t done it if it wasn’t because of today’s task!
The driving test itself is an hour long,and in three (3) parts.
When we got back an hour later, this very nice sensor, told me I had past. A bit of a chock! But a good chock! I have worked so hard for this in the end!
May 29th. Reflections from today’s driving. In total 36,11 km. Lot’s of practice on the feedback lately 😊. Driver with the L in the back of the car, for a good course. Driving with the thermoses of coffee also svela – a very Norwegian dish/ thicker pancake – around to the charity group during day 3 of Goodness Week in Stavanger.
Private driving Wednesday 29th of May, 3 hours in and around Stavanger.
Private driving 1st of June went much better even if I got lost and didn’t find the right road to drive off to the European motorway at once 🤪. But I managed to read all the signs without stress 😊, even the roundabout went fine today (even if I had lost of pain in my lower back). I am a bit worried that my back won’t be good enough for the next mandatory part 😔.
I am thankful for my neighbour lady (age 74 that dare to sit beside me and having Saga🐕 in the car, while I’m driving) and thankful for the protection from the Lord!
Stretching the back and let Saga 🐕 out for a small walk, in Ganddal my living place last year.
Private driving June 4th tunnel practice not so much about how to drive in a tunnel, no the focus was on where will I end up? So I could update my gps in my head. Unlucky I didn’t drive there at all the 7th when I had my 3rd mandatory part, 2nd driving over 2 hours. I had made a plan that would have worked perfectly with my brain but after half of the mandatory driving the teacher asked me how much time we had left – approxy half – so instead of driving where I in mind and be able to stop and eat a bit, the teacher forced me to change my plans, drop out of a break. I drove with the same teacher May 24th and than it was okay with breaks. I just don’t understand!
Sadly I now, since the last hour of the mandatory driving lesson, have fatigue symptoms. My ADHD doesn’t work well with driving more than 2 hours. I hope it is something I can practice on! But I can’t have a life with fatigue symptoms as soon as I am driving with someone. This driving school teacher also send me unconscious stress – which is the reason I now since approxy 1 am Friday the 7th have had fatigue symptoms 😔.
Just a picture of Stavanger.
Yet I have to be apart of the last mandatory part tomorrow Monday 10th of June, 3 pm. I feel like someone been driving over my head. And screens (laptop or smartphone) are less good than other things in life right now. Fatigue symptoms 😔.
Perfect weather for driving! June 22nd.
June 22nd. Today I have my last private driving. So today I am going to repeat things I know I can do better, poking on the driving in and around and out of a roundabout and get to know the suburb where the trafic station for the drive-up (or driving tests) starts.
Backed into the parking lot where it is always tight.
May 10th 07.30-09.00am had I the first part of the last mandatory part through the driving school.
Then it will be two different types of mandatory driving – one part is countryside driving for 3-4 hours the other is planing-gps-driving for 2,5‐3 hours. And then it’s a last part where you reflect on what you learned during those driving school lessons.
Safety course on the road, theory.
Norway are making all new drivers extremely alert on absolutely everything they think is important when it comes to driving. Instead of learning more along the way, everything must be learned at driving school and it is expensive! And all mandatory parts are not adapted to people (like me) who have practiced driving a lot or have had a driving license for something else before. No, everyone must do this regardless of what you already know. This type of mandatory came in 2005 because the government saw how many accidents it was among new drivers.
Instead of adapting to your background and possibly age, they extend the lessons and instead of compressing the lessons to make them more efficiently 🤪 they do the opposite. Tipical Norway.
Between May 10th and May 24th, I have had good practical 🚘 driving with my two friends my age that taking time to help me with this 🤩🤩
Sorry this is in Norwegian. One of many rules for driving in Norway.
Next driving with the driving school, May 24th countryside driving are done (after an a bit rough morning with hotflush 🤪) . The driving itself went well. I am now driving automatic (started with stick) and I love to drive an automatic car! This mandatory part – countryside driving for 4 hours(!) was so intense for my adhd-brain and I had so much pain in my wrist after 🤪.
My day wasn’t over just because I past this. [More thing would happen after this.] But the Lord was with me all 4 hours 😊✝️.
2023 wasn’t a good year of driving after my fall backwards at work in January 😐😒. I tryed to drive but had a lot of pain sitting for more then one hour. And then I was on sickleave in May. Moved in October… Been working or been sick this fall. But I am planing to finish everything with this driving license in 2024. I have a goal 😉 and I am motivated!
February2024. I had my first private driving the 3rd of February, first in10months! It went okay. I know what I need to practice on. I need to get a better flow while I’m driving. I need to feel comfy in and before a roundabout! As bigger the roundabout is as more freaking out I get. This hasn’t been an issue before… which I dislike a lot now!
April-24. I contacted my old and first driving school here in Stavanger and asked them about the last mandatory level and when it was possible to start that? Took a driving lesson April 22nd, it went well.
Meantime my plan is to drive as much as possible private until the practical driving test. The 4th and last mandatory level getting closer 🤩.
I have been blessed with tax money to complete the 🚘driver’s license 😊😊 and because of that I will start on the last mandatory level in May 10th 🤞😊.
November 2021, I started with the theory part of the driving license. Studdy roles and law’s for how to drive, trafic signs and what to not do as a driver. A bit more motivated this time and doing it all in Norway (never again in Sweden!). I was studdy for four months before I booked a date for the Theory test which you have to past before you can book a date for the driving test, but you also have to past 4 different levels of driving before you can book the driving test – insane if you ask me!!
I have until now (2022) taken, according to myself, to many driving lessons… Slowly I am getting closer, step by step to actually take the driving license.. But I have also past the 3 first levels I have to past so I am happy for that!!
*In Norway you need to past a the theory exam and the driving school has manny moments that are mandatory to take and past before you can do the license test. It’s expencive and much more complicated than manny other countries.
I’ve been taking driving lessons since February 22, a gap of 3 weeks in July becauce of the Summer holiday here. Had one driving lesson in the end of July. Non in August becauce I were working long day’s. September22 came and I found a new driving school closer to home. And a co-worker told me that *passing the theory exam in Norway means that you have 3 years(!) untìl the time runs out to clear the driving test. That helps a lot for me, not that my goal got further away. It just helps becauce I can’t stress or be pushed (stress symptoms brain) and becauce of my work scheduel.
October cameand I finally had my first private peactical run with one of my work leaders. But I did the compulsory first aid course and passed 🤩🤩. November23rd had I the mandatory dark driving and past. 🤩🤩.
December 6th, I had my first normal driving lesson with the new driving teacher to check my status of “how far have I got and how much do I have left?” The nxt mandatory part is the legendary slippery course including theory of how we drive on slippery roads and winter roads. I past that too 😅.
In 2009, living in Norway and earning good money, I wanted to “pick up” my driving school project. So I contacted a driving school in Sweden near by the border, Karlstad so it wouldn’t be so expensive to get there and back.
It started good and I learned fast. Had to take some extra driving lessons in the city area cause I hated to driving in a city and had not so much experience of it. I had been driving with my mother for years and new most of those roads back and forwards ^^haha^^. But driving in a city center with my mother wasn’t fun so I didn’t choose that if I could.
So in 2009, I just had to do it. But with a good driving teacher I fixed it. 🙂 I got so far in the whole “project” that I was signed up to do the written test – the Theory test – but then suddenly the Tax authorities of Sweden said “NO you can’t, because you haven’t lived in Sweden for the past 6 months”.This was wierd for me, cause I knew other people had done the same thing and were aloud to do everything. I was frustrated. So everything I had done felt like I just throwen everything out in the thin air. I was upset, frustrated and sad. I was so close to finish what I started ten years back. Bureaucracy.
So I said “Fine. I put this on the shelf to the Lord and He will show me when it time.”
In 2019 – ten years later – my father told me he had been digging in this issue and told me the Tax Authorities had been wrong oversteped their own rules. Can you understand how much more frustrated I felt then???? At this point I just didn’t want to do a thing more about this license. This has become one of the reasons towards Sweden why I really don’t want to be a citisens of Sweden anymore I am sick of all the lies they tell people.
In 1994 I got my very first driving license – for driving a Tractor – because I went to this Farmers school. But I didn’t continue doing anything with the real driving license until 1999.the Winter of 1999 I went to my first driving school (that how it work here in Skandinavia and it’s a lot to learn nothing like the american way!), started to drive a Volksvagen, TDI 1,6 engine, a nice car, manuel gear just because I was used to the tractor. This was in one of the Northen cities Örnsköldsvik approxy 550 km north of Stockholm along the East coast of Sweden. But I didn’t stay in that city long enough for different reasons to be able to finish the license…
Nexte time I “picked up where I left” was few years later, because of money issues (it’s expensive to take all the driving lessons you need to past!) And my parents didn’t pay a penny for me. I think, now decades later it was because it was only my mother who had money, a payment a job. I think I tryed again in 2002 but I don’t really remember much from that time.
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