It is completely my fault. I thought we could get Florida driving licenses in December, and hand them in for new German licenses after Christmas break. Unfortunately, we couldn't do that because we registered to live here in Germany in August and a license issued after our arrival would be invalid. That means we cannot drive exactly 6 months after our registration here in Germany, August 10th, 2009.
OK - we can deal with this. What does this mean for Daph and I?
First the prerequisites:
- Eye test
- 6 hour first aid course
- Biometric photo
- translated US driving license
- .... about 5 more things.
After that - 4 weeks for the application to go to Berlin for verification, then the written test, then the 20 minute driving test. No problem.
This weekend was the 6 hour first aid course (in English!). We went with Daph's friend Regina from San Diego (via Italy last year). Regina's son was the one who asked Julia out months ago.
Erste is first, Hilfe is help and of course Kurs is course in German.
Daphne and Regina had no problem with the first aid but Daph almost failed the eye test - even with her contacts. Daph is lucky the Germans all want her experience here to be thoroughly enjoyable. It's their natural service orientation here in Bavaria.
Our favorite part of the night was where each student had to demonstrate the ability to pull an unconscious person from a drivers seat, pull them out of the car and then put them into the "recovery position".
They paired people up so a 90 pound person wouldn't have to pull me out.
Here is a picture of our new friend (who works at Lego) rolling me into the recovery position.
We got this whole driving licensing thing licked.
What could possibly go wrong?
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