“Spee-do up! Now spee-do down…turn left…makikomi check! Ooh, too close. Hehe, now too far. Okay, goo-ood. Now spee-do up! Spee-do down!” The whimsical one-liners of my driving instructor, Sudo-san, will stay with me forever. In all the stress that was obtaining my Japanese driving license, driving with him was the one thing that kept me sane.
