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We're definitely in a new country
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Yesterday we said goodbye to Malaysia and we hopped on a plane to Sri Lanka
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the country that we're going to call home for the next four weeks. But for this travel series we're going to do things a little bit differently
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we're going to be driving over 1 000 miles all over this unfamiliar island in a tuk-tuk
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but first we have to pass our tuk-tuk driving test we're heading there right now
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and i'm a little bit nervous i'm actually shaking because let's just put it this way
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I am not the best driver. How are you? Fine. The office is there? This way? Okay
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We love these bad boys. One of these will be ours. You ready
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in 24 hours we'll have the keys for our very own which one do you think we're gonna get? the lime green, royal blue with the cobra
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or the trusty red? let's see if I fit. let me see those legs
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Easy. Got the break here. Some other things going on that I didn't know about yet
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I think it's good. It really supports my posture. Do I have to sit upright
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Heart is okay? Yeah, it's okay. So your instructor will show you how to grab it. Whenever you want to start your tiptoe, you need to start from neutral
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Sometimes it's not easy. Every 100 kilometer, you need to go to the petrol station
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In the case of getting engine oil, you need to get... If you couldn't find it, it's totally alright
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You can always need about the fuel shortage, which is happening in the country
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Now it's time for us to drive the Tuk Tuk. Meet our instructor
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Please, introduce yourself. I'm Emelda. I'm working in Tuk Tuk Brindle for almost five years
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So now I'm going to start with them. With me? I'm so nervous. Yes
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But yeah, let's go. Hop in. Okay. Okay, wait. Explain. It's like you're not going to drive. Okay
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This is a vehicle documents. Okay. Law tax, emission test and insurance
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These documents need to show the police. Okay. Sometimes they like to talk with you where I going where I from how it driving Okay Just casual your talking okay Okay okay So don break the road rules Okay For other road rules no problem Okay okay okay
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I explained your basic maintenance, how to check the engine oil level and reducing everything
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Okay, oil level, wow. Okay, I feel like I have to jump in and fill in the gaps a little bit because this day went nothing as planned
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and at this point we were feeling already super overwhelmed. Okay. Okay, here
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Speed meter. Okay. Lot of things. Okay, speed meter. My maximum speed limit. 40. Exactly. Clutch. Okay
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Totally four gears. Four gears. Okay. Is that good enough if it rains
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Like really rains or no? No. No? I've got puddles by my feet
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It's a pretty serious storm. After a quick 20 minute briefing to get us familiar with how the
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to work it was time to head out into the streets to finally get into driver's seat ourselves
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this is your practice place okay oh cool yeah you can get the uh practice yeah
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now your time She's gone
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I can get that new one. Back to me. Right. Great. Super
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You don't have to go out roading for a second. Down. Sit down. Yes
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Release the gas. No. Right. yes release the gas I just still don't even know which way is neutral
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but this is bad I don't know how we're gonna do this
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Okay, so if you feel like this top top, clutching. You can do it, you can do it
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No, it's going good. No, it's going good. You made it to second gear
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Yeah, but I don't wanna go beyond second gear. Aymara making some progress She can consistently get into second gear but it third gear and beyond that tricky but she doing well now she getting some help
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okay let's try this one more time this is a lot harder than i could have ever imagined
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I'm not going to get in. Yes. Release. Release the gas. Start
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Oh, the gas? Accelerator. Start. Oh, no. Sorry. He will try
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He makes you easy, I think. Better than me. He's going to be better at this
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To say that I'm disappointed in myself would be an understatement. I was really hoping to help G drive, but I physically cannot, like, change and yeah
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it's not that easy. To be honest, the entire tuk-tuk idea was more Aymaras than mine
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And considering that I had never driven a manual car or motorcycle and only barely knew how to drive a scooter
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I didn't picture many successful outcomes to this little adventure. And after watching Aymaras struggle, let's just say I was feeling more doubtful than ever
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Slowly, slowly, slowly. See? It's too slow. Oh, super, super. See, I'll show you
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Thankfully, I picked up the basics well enough and Emilda had enough confidence in me that she led us out to the streets of Sri Lanka
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Come in people. Hello
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Hello. But unfortunately, my first taste of Sri Lankan driving didn't get off to a roaring start
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Things were fine on the back roads, but once we hit the busy main street, I kept stalling and the nerves had me forgetting all the basics I had just picked up
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Slowly, slowly, slowly. Don't be honest. Don't be honest
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Impact neutral. At the end of our driving test, we were both thinking
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how the hell are we going to be able to do this
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One more two more One more One more One more One more that was a lot more intense that we could have ever anticipated i so sorry my brain is fried
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right now we had all these plans to capture this like there's a lot of mosquitoes in such a fun way
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but like it just couldn't happen i don't even know if there's a video like our brain had to be so
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in tune to every moment it was all so new and challenging yeah you know like driving with
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manual transmission this is my very first time and like everything was familiar to something else
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i thought this was like a bike brake the brake i thought it was like the clutch everything is scrambled yeah and i obviously need a lot more practice um so disappointed honestly like i'm um
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look at you there look at you like i really wanted to help him drive and
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and I obviously need more time anyways. Apologize, I don't know, this video
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it feels like it was all over the place. We thought it would be a lot. Yeah, our batteries ran out
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It was just messy, but at the same time, we had to be super focused and learn
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because it's our own safety on the road. And I was out on the main road
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there were buses, I was stalling. I don't know how we're gonna do this
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I thought this video was going to be like, yeah, we're doing a TikTok
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Like, oh yeah, we're nervous, but look how free we are in the TikTok
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uh yeah it didn't happen like that no um but we leave tomorrow and also we're renting from a very
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cool company and we'll tell you about them in the next few videos we thought it was gonna happen today because we thought it was gonna be smooth yeah just like a chill video you know how cool
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by the way let us tell you about tuk-tuk rentals yeah but no gordon found this company and they're
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awesome and we'll tell you more in the next video we're gonna close it here we are traumatized
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need to relax yes my soul yes process everything visualize everything and hit the road to watch more
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videos tonight but the tuk tuk is awesome um it's very comfortable it's not that bad and i think
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we're very excited it's just like it's all i think i was getting the hang of it at the very end i'm
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enough good enough to be a safe driver it's just i do yeah you did great i'm so proud we're gonna
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hit the road tomorrow the main road is so scary there's so much happening like people crossing the
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the street, bikes, buses, vans, dogs. So get excited for this travel series because it's going to be crazy
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but it's also going to be awesome and tomorrow is our first travel day and we will see you in
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the next video. Thank you for watching. Pray for us. You'll see us in a TEC TEC tomorrow with our
