During today's driving lesson, despite it being the first lesson for a while I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I was no where near as rusty as I had expected. Although my driving was not as good as I had come to expect from myself, it was a lot better than had foreseen the day before the lesson.
The focus of today's lesson was to work on the finer points of driving such as the dreaded reverse parallel park. Despite being quite comfortable in most situations and not being one to panic, I found it quite a daunting prospect to have thousands of pounds worth of vehicle under my control considering my relative lack of experience. Nothing, however, despite my nervous disposition went wrong and I calmly and smoothly executed the maneuver a number of times. Parallel parking was not the only first in todays lesson, as we were soon driving around the streets of Cheltenham and found ourselves cruising down a main road doing the national speed limit, 60 MPH, the fastest I had ever driven! Although not a big deal to most experienced drivers it was a new and quite scary experience for me. It felt like the car was not so much in my control and I felt as if the slightest knock or hesitation could potentially put me and my driving instructor in the ditch, luckily nothing happened and we exited the main safely with out a hitch.
I drove myself home safely and we went over what we had covered to day and what we would do next week. I left the car feeling as if I had achieved something else in my driving experience.