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Getting a Driving Licence in a Language I don’t Speak Well — Feels like a Lifetime Achievement
“People are what they do, not what they say, not what they think, not what they pretend to be.” — James Lee Burke, The New Iberian Blues
To pass a driving exam is a milestone in anyone’s life. It usually happens to young souls. Twenty years later I finally got my driving licence!!!!!! People my age have twenty years of experience but it’s better late than never, right?
It only took me four years to get my driving licence! Why four years I hear you ask? Well, where do I begin?
The beginning of a long story
It’s hard to get a driving licence when you don’t live in one place for too long! When I decided to get a driving licence my husband and I lived in Barcelona. As I was ready to take my exams we left for London for a project. A year goes by we returned to Madrid. I signed up with a new driving school.
The time when I passed my theory exam in the fourth go was the end of summer. I simply couldn’t understand the translation from Spanish to English. I counted myself lucky because they actually do English translation, however bad. The sentences made no sense in English…
