Tag: Driving license

Driving license – part 4.

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!

February 2024. I had my first private driving the 3rd of February, first in 10months! 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 🤞😊.

Driving license – part 3.

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. September 22 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 came and I finally had my first private peactical run with one of my work leaders. But I did the compulsory first aid course and passed 🤩🤩. November 23rd 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 😅.

Driving license – part 2.

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.

Driving license – part one (1).

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.