South (aka East?)

I drove back to school this fine Monday morning and everything went nice and smoothy. However, I think the sun was confused. Either that or I have been lied to all my life that the sun rises in the East. Or it could even have been a matter of the roads defying logic and someone getting me South of Saskatoon while facing East 95% of the way. The sun was in my eyes...the whole time. I was fine because I had sunglasses, but especially because it was just rising, it was too low to be covered by the visor. Now. I was very excited to drive back in the morning because the sun would not be in front of me (because I had to drive south, maybe a bit of southeast, and west...NOT east), however, it totally was. My question is: why?