Week one Dubai

I have sucessfully completed a whole week in Dubai!!! It has been fun and memorable.  My batch at training college is the best, they are all really fun and we are always doing things together which is really very nice and keeps me busy!
I have good and bad news though I will start with the good, Dubai is a very fun place and there is a ton of stuff for me to do, can you guess the bad news.... All the fun stuff cost money! This week everyone has wanted to go places together and go to eat and everything. It has been fun but exhausting. We are always reminding each other that we have plenty of time to do everything because we live here we are not on vacations and have to squeeze a lot into one or so weeks. However training does get much more intense starting Sunday so it was nice to be able to go out and about this week more. One of the best things I have done so far is that I saw this dancing fountain that they have outside the mall. It is awesome! I think they have one in Vegas but it is not as good as the one in Dubai, I took a video of it so if I can figure out how to post videos on this thing you guys are in for a treat (except bear with me I realized upon watching the videos a few times my camera skills are not too good!) Another really cool thing my friend Palma from Italy and my friend Teresa from Spain and I went to a little set of stores that had really cute little shops in them that were more stuff specfic to dubai. I really enjoyed that because up until then I was going to just normal malls and I really liked it but I was ready to experiance a little more culture of the area.
As I mentioned earlier, this week was the first week of training college which means only 6 more weeks YAY! There was not a whole lot of learning going on this week we more just got to know each other and the facilities that we will be training in as well as the Dubai culture. The other day our trainer brought in dates and arabian coffee. The coffee is made from a few spices such as terragon and saffron combined with coffee beans and rose water it was really bitter coffee but combined with dates it was super yummy which surprised me because i did not think that I liked dates!
I have been getting more of a idea about how my life here will be being flight attendant. I have heard that being from America the chances of me getting a lot of American flights is very high. This is good and bad because I was sort of looking forward to seeing the world not America but I think I will get to do both and American flights are the one everyone wants for some reason so if I do get a whole lot after my probation is up I can switch with other people. I am just excited about it all. Also here with emirates we get a month vacation but they split it up for us as we choose with the maximum time we can take at once being 15 days and a minimum of 5. Since we just joined the company we were not around when people bid on holiday time so we are just going to get assigned a vacation time but I do know when  and I am not sure for how long either maybe 7-10 days(fingers crossed I can somehow get thanksgiving off.... though this is highly unlikely I think). Another nice thing is that Emirates always gives you a day off imediatly following your vacation so if you have 5 days off you actually have 6 days off! It is really nice and they do not care it you are back from vacation then or not so I can use that day as my flying day! It is awesome I think because flying to the states cost me a day as it is.  All my friends want to come visit America with me lol I find it pretty ironic because most of them are from really amazing places and all they want to do is come to America, grass is always greener I suppose. Two of my girlfirends want me to introduce them to my cute American guy friends and hook them up, there plan is for things to go well enough they will get married and be dual citzens... SO for all you single cute American men reading this I have cute foriegn girls just dying to meet you hahaha :)
In other news my whole batch self included has practically forgotten what sleeping in is actually we have forgotten themeaning of the word sleep. I averaged during the week last week 4.5 hours of sleep each night. (If any spelling errors and grammer errors are in here the whole lack of sleep thing is to blame...)We basically do not run on sleep but rather coffee which I prefer anyways but it will be interesting to see how long we can keep it up, I am shooting for 3 years since thats the length of my contract :)
Lastly, today we went to a mosque then I had my first wave of homework assignments that Jordan Palma and I worked on the homework because I told Palma I would help her cause she was worried her english was not good but she did stellar! So I will put up pictures of all these things and hopefully the video too cause it is SO cool and I think you will really enjoy!

Some of my very good friends from my batch


Dinner with a lot of people from my batch at the Hard Rock Dubai

Camel! There is so much camel stuff everywhere and the real ones are so cute! I think these are my new favorite animals:)

My apartment building is the taller one with white on the side and the AWR at the top

My room from the door kinda
My room from the window

I cannot figure out that video but just google dubai mall dancing fountains or you tube it if you want its really cool
Miss and love you all lots!

Getting acquainted with Dubai

Dubai I must say is growing on me! I have had the opportunity to explore the city a bit in the past couple days and I am really surprised by a lot of things that I have seen but not maybe in the way you would expect... I feel as though I am in America except for the occasional camel and lots more sand oh and heat! Dubai has almost everything they have in America when it comes to products for bathroom supplies to clothing stores! I was really surprised to see an American Eagle in their mall along with victoria secret and even forever 21! They also have an Ikea! Basically when it comes to the shopping I feel right at home no actually I feel even better than I would at home more like I would feel in heaven, seriously the only way heaven would be better is if all the clothes were free for me oh and maybe not so many people (at the mall, they can be in heaven they just have to find their own mall, not hard to do here I haven't been to the same mall twice and I have already been to 4!)
My  first couple days here have been pretty good I have figured out the metro I think but I have also came to enjoy a great benefit we flight attendants get which is free rides on a shuttle strictly for crew to and from the emirates headquarters to your or other flight attendants buildings. Right now I am headed to the headquarters to meet up with a few girls in my training group to get our nails done and have some dinner and drinks or as on of the girls I am meeting Alex calls it tea. That is one of my favorite things about working with an international mix of people all the different slangs and accents everyone has! She had no clue people from other places do not call dinner tea and I had no clue what she was talking about, "Alex! We are getting dinner not tea!" I exclaimed and she was like, "yeah..I said that" :)
In other news everyone is taking turns cooking meals from their homes and I am at a complete loss for what I can cook. Nothing is too American but they all asked I cook them a thanksgiving dinner! I do not think the quite understand how much work that involves and also the fact that I have never personally cooked one so this should be interesting... I think I've got some time before it is my turn though so I have time to get prepared!
Anyways I have a few more photos I would like to add but I am on my iPhone and not sure how to do that so it may need to wait till next time!

SEA to DXB

Hello Everyone!
Well, I am in Dubai!! Wa-hoo! I arrived last night around 8:30.
The plane ride was great for the most part. I had selected a seat near the back of the plane and next to the window so I could look out I also selected a seat that did not have anyone sitting in the seat next to me. I was very happy with this arrangement because it was close to wear the crew were so I could knid of get a sneak peak of the back-scenes and what I will soon be doing. The only dissapointment was the fact that a middle aged man did not like his seat and chose to move to the one next to me... not horrible but he was a little weird and kept snoring as he slept.
The plane ride other than that was great though! I had a whole three meals while on board and the crew was extremely nice. They gave me a ton of candy and extra stuff haha and a tour of the whole plane and a cappachino which normally is not offered to people in economy! Also they let me sit in 1st class for a while, that was such a luxury! Other than that I tried not to sleep too much because there is an 11 hour time difference and once I got to Dubai it was like 7:30 am American time and I am used to getting up around then. Instead of sleeping i was pleasently surprised to find there was loads of entertainment as far as movies and tv shows go! I watched a few movies and then discovered they offered 8 epsiodes of Friends (may favorite show) and so spent the rest of the time watching that!
Once in Dubai it was very easy, there was someone waiting for me and she took me stright to the front of the customs line and I went through no problem then some other lady told me my schedule for the up coming week and sent me to a man who would take me to my new home. I was placed in the 21st century tower and lucked out with the master suite! I was too tiered to unpack last night and so I just showered then one of my roommates came home. She is a very nice girl from south america but i cannot remember her name.... The other roommate is a gril from India how is on a layover right now she is married and her husband is visiting right now so he was here but i cannot remember his name either... They are moving into there own place so the girl from South Africa is having her friend move in here in the other girls spot. I do not know her name either, (clearly not a name person) but she is apparently very nice and from New Zealand so i think it will be very nice.
I am trying to figure out how to post photos so you can see about my plane ride:)

This is of me with me with the eye mask they provide for the passengers

This is the Burj Khalifa, it is the tallest building in the world and very close to my apartment

this is my breakfast on the plane, they give you a menu with a few options and this one is kind of english it is a egg and pepper type casserole and beans, sausage, mushrooms, crossiant, oj, fruit and coffee.

This is not a great picture but it was when we were going over the North Pole!

This was actually our first meal it was a choice between curry or lmab and I had had curry with Chase for lunch so I chose lamb. It was good but I think my favorite part was the wine and cheese I saved for a little later, also I really don't like the idea of eatting a cute little lamb :(

This is a picture of the plane from the terminal, not the best photo though...

Yummy tea a little later and cookies

Ok so on the plane they have a channel you can pick and it shows you what is under the plane so I took this picture of the channel when we were flying over the north pole, lucky we didn't hit any raindeer!! hahahahaha