I am finally getting around to putting up a new blog! I know it has been quite some time since my last post but believe it or not I have not led the most exciting life that you would imagine a member of an international cabin crew would lead up until this point. It is all about learning how to do the job right now.
So basically I am just doing the training. It has been fun and exaughsting! I have already covered about how we need to get up early every morning to be at training college I think but I think I also told you that I was working out in the mornings, that quickly stopped for the most part. I now have came to the realization that I am human and cannot run on coffee alone *sigh*.The training college is amazing though, they have such great facilities it is awesome! We weren't supposed to take a lot of photos and go posting them about so I tried my best to follow directions and have like no photos but it is really amazing! There are these simulator planes that really look like a real section of a plane both on the inside and on the outside, they also feel like a real plane feels during take off, landing, turbulence, crash landing everything! It was quite trippy to think that we really we not taking off when seated in the plane.
In the classes we covered all types of training and I can even deliver a baby if need be. I can put out all types of fires, deal with hijackers and bombs and by next week I will be able to do all this as well as provide service with a smile, and I bet all you thought all the cabin crew did was serve drinks and say "chicken or beef"! In one of our training sessions we got to disembark an aircraft simulator via the slide raft into water. It was really cool to slide the side and take the raft off the plane I hope I never have to do that in real life though, something tells me it will be slightly more thrilling in a much less fun way!
SO i guess I have had some fun in the training but it just seems at the time like you will never actually get to fly and all you do is learn stuff and get freaked out by all the horrible things that could possibly happen while in the aircraft, most of which are human error. It is really good though because we are one of the best and make little mistakes thanks to the long hours we log in the classroom sooo that's motivating at least!
In other news, the other day we got our official lovely uniforms and are now expected to show up to training college wearing tem I really like mine and I think for the most part iy looks nice so that is good. All us girls had a great time the other day taking pictues so I am working on getting some of them up here but I am not a tech pro so I forget how I got it to work the first time....
Anyway I have 2 more weeks of training and the only thing left is service! I have heard that it is a lot of fun so I am excited! Also I have a lot to look forward to because today something really amazing happened that I have been waiting for since I found out I got the job, can you guess what it is...?
I got my ROSTER!!!! I start flying next month after training! I will officially have my first flight on November 11th it is nothing too special just a turn around (meaning there and back no getting off the plane) to Jordan. Then the next day I have my next flight to Manchester, UK this flight will be a layover for 24 hours (so i have 24 hours to explore before back to work on the return flight). These two flights are just learning flights so we are still observing and trying things out kind of ( I also heard most of the time the pilot will let you sit in the cockpit for take off and landing so you really get a awesome view!) And my one of my friends from training is on one of the same flights as me and my other friend from training is on the other! After this I have a few days off then I am on call
bvdskfor a while and then I am going to Moscow in Russia and will actually have a layover there during thanksgiving! I then go to Rome!!!! (most excited about this layover) and one more turn around to Dhara. I think my roster is amazing! I am so excited I know someone else going on almost all of my flights and I can't believe all the great places I get to go I feel really blessed. I am trying to remember though that in this industry things happen often and rosters change a lot so this is not set in stone. I just really hope they don't change my Rome!
Like I said before, I am having trouble posting the pictures but I will try to get some up soon I promise!
Miss and love you all!
