13th July 2007 good wet lesson

Instructor parked in bay park space forwards meaning I had to reverse out to the left steered left bit soon so had to steer right then left again. Raining nearly all lesson, did quite well today was quite busy to start with so clutch control in slow moving traffic bit hard on brake a few times. Went on dual carriageway got up to 70mph. Junctions and roundabouts no problems. Instructor mentioned I need to check right wing mirror after checking inside mirror before signaling to go right, managed to remember that longer than I expected.

Did parallel park 3 times all went better than expected. 1st one did totally on my own (instructor in car watching of course) did ok but bit far from kerb 2nd one instructor told me when to turn right and did that well. 3rd one again bit far from kerb. Did reverse round corner on sharp corner did that ok tho went bit wide but corrected it and saw another car bit late. Turn in road went well though did risk hitting kerb on last bit but managed not to but on test I would of done it in 5 turns, just with it being on lesson and 1st time my new instructor seen me do it I wanted to manage it in 3. Next was emergency stop my instructor tells me he will tell me to stop in emergency soon, but wont say what road and the next few roads we go on arn't long enough to get speed over 20mph so I had no idea when to expect it. When he says stop I'm doing around 20+mph and slam brakes on quite well he then asks me what to do before moving off again I remember check over both shoulders.

I had to drive through some water on road big puddle full width of road so had to drive slowly through it first time I've done that.