{"id":198,"date":"2007-11-21T14:48:30","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T02:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/newnouveau-part-deux\/"},"modified":"2007-11-21T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T03:00:19","slug":"newnouveau-part-deux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/newnouveau-part-deux\/","title":{"rendered":"New\/Nouveau Part Deux"},"content":{"rendered":"

New car<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Ontario<\/a>Well, actually, no on this one.\u00a0 I want to buy a car, but to do that, you need to get car insurance, and to get car insurance, you need to have an Ontario drivers license.\u00a0 You can exchange one - hand in your New Zealand license and proof of over 2 years of experience, and go straight to doing the G2 (full license) test.\u00a0 However, once you've done the written test, you're a G1 (learner) driver - so that means I could drive to the writing test, and not be able to drive home without my Mum in the passenger seat.\u00a0 And it's possibly a two month wait on getting a G2 booking.\u00a0 The system sucks, and I'm going to put it off as long as possible. Which means lots of driving a rental car, unfortunately with nowhere to park it as the underground garage in our building is being resurfaced.\u00a0 The jackhammers start at 8.10am without fail.<\/p>\n

I've received two parking tickets (two more than my entire driving history in New Zealand) and backed into one parked car.<\/p>\n

Driving on the wrong side of the road is something you adjust to in stages - if you're a passenger first, you get used to sitting in the \"drivers spot\" and not having a steering wheel, and you get used to what side of the car to walk to.\u00a0 Then you adjust to what side road signs are on.<\/p>\n

When you start driving yourself, what side of the road you use is actually easy, assuming there's other traffic around. It's the other little things - the gearstick and handbrake being on the wrong side, the seatbelt being pulled down from the other side, and having to look over the other shoulder while reversing.\u00a0 It's that final thing that lead to the parked car incident in the dark parking lot last Monday.<\/p>\n

Eventually it all comes together, and you don't stress any more.\u00a0 Except, of course, when you are changing sides again in six weeks, for three weeks...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New car Well, actually, no on this one.\u00a0 I want to buy a car, but to do that, you need to get car insurance, and to get car insurance, you need to have an Ontario drivers license.\u00a0 You can exchange one - hand in your New Zealand license and proof of over 2 years of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67],"tags":[62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}