Today I went down to the Driver's License Department and went through a variety of lines and paperwork and picked up my driver's license. That's right. Today I joined the class of the frazzled-nerved, white-knuckled, half-craved, horn-happy, cussing, screaming, and the all around impatient drivers of the Middle East.
*I had to take the eye exam in Arabic. A bit nerve-racking. I have a hard time telling which way the little "E" is pointing in English, much less saying it in Arabic.*
But because we aren't sure what we are doing after language school we are in no position to get a car, BUT we have several friends who are traveling back and forth from the States and they agreed to let us borrow their car these next couple weeks. So we are in a little Hyundai Accent today.
We were cruising down the road on a way to a picnic and I flipped the "squirt water on the windshield" lever and the back windshield wiper went crazy and wouldn't shut off! So we drove around for an hour with the back windshield wiper smearing the dirt on the back windshield and nothing happening on the front windshield. "oh, great. We've had the car for 10 minutes and I've already jacked it up!"
Fortunately we get home and I pull the fuse out and replace it and everything goes back to normal. I guess when a fuss blows, the front stops working and the back stops stopping.
Oh well. Who cares? For now, we are free......
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I'm really happy for y'all. I'll be thinking of you on my 25 minute bus ride across town tomorrow...
~A
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