License to Drive... Maybe????

In the west, you go the the DMV, show them your ID, they check your eyes, maybe do a test, if you are new to the country and VOILA!!! You've got yourself a drivers license!!!

Well, guess what???? Not in the great red country of complicated issues!!!!!!

# Yi - you need Harry's work Visa. Our U.S drivers license, our passports, and my regular visa and 1 driver and 1 interpreter and a whole lot of bloody patience!!!

# Er - first appointment, you go for your medical appointment. That consists of reading the eye chart, which are E's pointing left, right, up, and down. You just point which direction they are going. Then they ask you if there is anything wrong with your arms and legs. (weird!). Then they vibrate "tuning forks" each side of your head and ask you if you can hear them. I almost lied and said NO!!!! ( I think I might have failed my drivers license) heehee....

# San - was our 2nd appointment. For some reason, we had to go on another day, with all our paperwork, at a different place, to make an appointment to register for a drivers license.  What??????

# Se - No Joke.... 3rd appointment, we drive 1/2 hr away, to register for the STUDY of the drivers license test.. ( We are at this point exercising our patience )... and guess what??? They make us sign our names in Chinese Characters!!!! So we got to practice a bit, which our translator and driver thought was the funniest thing since "China's Funniest Home Video's" ... But we did it, and we're proud of ourselves!!! I bet we looked like kindergarteners writing for the first time. That's what it felt like. And I kept the example as a souvenir...

#Wu - Next week, we go back to the same place, I think, and have a 5 hour study period with a translator, before they send us an appointment by internet, to take the actual test, WHICH IS ALLLLLLL INNNNN CHINEEEEEEEESE. OH! I think I just lost my patience, and I'm not quite sure where it went.....

Bloody hell, I'm tired!!!!!

So, stay tuned for study hall... and the appointments to come....

Your word of the day, "Che" pronounced like it is spelled, meaning "Car"... How appropriate... We might never get to own one in China....Harry dislikes taking taxi's, it's a guy thing....

Ta ta for now...

Pauline ; )