Re: driving.
A week sounds pretty fantastic man. Top of that, doing it on the roads of Karachi. Job well done indeed. You know what they say, if you can manage to drive yourself through Karachi, you could sure reckon yourself to be the master of every street/terrain in the world. 
I did learn driving at the age of 11, on a manual. Thanks solely to my mothers generosity and my nani maa’s house being located pretty far away from where we lived. I’d religiously wait for it to turn Thursday as that would get me to hop in the passenger seat, do a couple “Please ami’s” and she’d take me to a cricket ground (That I’d know of beforehand) where the road-wise warrior would do all that he’d be wishing for the entire past week. Not mentioning the sleepless nights before and after the said joyride. 