Driving and more work

We've completed two weeks of work already. The one quarter of our time here. The work part is flying by while time off seems to crawl by. We finished most of our training and will now start doing the real work. Some things are late but I feel like it is going well overall.

Last Friday Robert and I got to take a Norway driving course. This is required by the company if you want to drive. The first half of the class was a presentation about the rules in Norway. The signs are different, but they make sense. They drive on the right, and the rules are mostly the same.

There is one key difference. Instead of stop signs, they have a rule that you always yield to the right. So if you come up to an intersection and a car is coming to your right, you stop. The exception is if you are on a priority road, then you can go. In that case the road on the right will be marked with a yield. You must always stop for pedestrians and bikes as well. Always, with no exception. Also, the acceptable blood-alcohol level is 0.2%, or effectively 0. You cannot have a single drink and then drive. If you're in an accident, they can test you for 6 hours after. So you can't go home and have a drink. You have to wait 6 hours. It's strict but I think it's good.

The second part of the class was the driving part. Fortunately it wasn't raining at the time. The instructor brought a manual which I decided I was not comfortable driving. So Robert drove us to the driving school office in Sandes. There we got the automatic version and I drove back to work. I was nervous because the instructor was constantly pointing out everything you do. Plus we had to talk about what we were seeing and what we were doing.

In practice it's not hard. Just remember to yield to the right.