Now I'm driving legally

Praise {insert deity of choice here}, I finally passed my driving test. In Japan, you can only use an international driver's license for the 1st year after the entry date on your passport, after which you have to get a Japanese license. This means, that since July 27, I have been driving without a valid license (oops!). This is not for lack of trying. I took the test for the first time in the beginning of July, never imagining the difficulties I would face. The test is all closed-course, with nothing particularly hard. However, Japan being the perfectionist nation that it is, everything has to be textbook-perfect. I have been failed for such inanities as not looking in the mirrors enough, looking in the mirrors too much, going too fast (10km/h) around turns, being too confident/not careful enough through the S-turns (note that I got through them just fine), driving in the center of the lane (in Japan, it's keep left, unless you're making a right turn, changing lanes too quickly, changing lanes too slowly, and not keeping my hands at exactly 10 and 2. But thankfully, I passed on the 7th time. Ironically, no one, not even the DMV {insert derogatory term here}, ever implied that I was not a competent and safe driver.

Now, I go off the English "camp" for a week.