Driving course and our new car!

Off to a Defensive Driving Course today. Adrian’s company requires us to complete the course before they give us a car. I’m really excited about getting a brand new car but not so excited about driving on the wrong side of the road!

The course included an hour long slideshow which outlined the general road rules and also touched, not so subtly, on women drivers causing the majority of accidents over here. It’s even a local joke to say Kim Sim Yo when you see an accident as it means a woman caused another accident. Cheeky!

We also got to drive for about 10 minutes each and then that was it. Not really a defensive driving course as such, more like an introduction into Korean driving standards. But it was still handy and taught me quite a bit.

When we were driving back to the office our teacher, Peter Pan as he likes to be called, turns around and says to Adrian that he’s smart and I’m beautiful so we’re a good match. He then asked Adrian for permission to sing to me and when Adrian approved he started singing ‘You are so beautiful to me’. It was hilarious but sweet at the same time. 

When Adrian got back to work he was given the keys to our new car! Here are some photos, we’re very lucky!

 When we were driving earlier we saw a new area full of shops and more importantly a KFC! We decided to drive there ourselves for dinner, and it was an experience. Parking is a bit crazy over here, it seems like there’s no rules. People even double park on corners or in the middle of the road. We had to drive around for a while before we found somewhere we were comfortable to park but we got there eventually J

Off to bed.

Write soon xx