Half a Flight Attendant!!

Well.. another week gone! WOO! It was long, and boring, and sleepless! We had class Monday - Friday 3-11:30pm! and an exam or two everyday.. meaning.. sleep eat(sometimes) and study.. and learn!! It got interesting this weeekend though, Finally!! Thursday we got to go on the plane and do some calling on the interphones, so calling from the back to the front flight attendants.. etc.. and we had to practice our beautiful demo's. In case of a decompression, an oxygen mask will fall from the overhead compartments.. etc.. I thought it would be stressful, but its actually a lot of fun, and i'm sad that we don't get to do it much anymore since we have the video demo's now! So that was the first excicting night.. we stepped out into the their "garage" and there was two 310's sitting in it! I thought planes were big before, but when you are standing beside the tire, that is as tall as me, they are REALLY big! So cool though! I wish I had brought my camera, but I'm sure we will have lots more chances! Saturday we had the day off, and we went to the park again, (Check out the
crazy Quebec Squirrels
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me and Angie, and then went out for supper at this place called Scores. It was yummy!! Oh, and we went shopping!! For shoes!!.. Turns out I may eventually end up like my Mother and live everyday in heals! We had to buy some heals for on the plane, and then some bigger heals for the airports! Next purchase will be bandaids.. for my blisters! and maybe some more practice walking like a lady... cause I'm such a lady. Today we had a class all day, and it started in the Simulator. So we had a real pilot there in the Flight Deck, and then our passengers were the students, and we had a crew of 6. So There was red lights on the simulator, that were "fire" and then smoke would come out from places, and we would have to fight it.. etc. so we had to learn how to handle the situations, it was actually pretty intense, because the teacher is one of the passengers, and she is testing us. So first person stays with te fire, calls for back up, back up tells the flight director, who then calls the captain, and informs him, and has to tell him, site, smoke, severity, etc.. at the same time you try to be discreet because panicking is contagious.. so we needed to fight the fire, then they throw in more smoke in the bathroom/s and oh it just gets way to confusing,..then the pilot comes on and says we have __ minutes until emergency landing.. so we need to prepare the cabin, and do a demo for brace positions and then get in our jumpseats, and when we land/crash, he gives us more signals, like evacuate, and we have to open the door the right way, inflate the slides.. etc.. so It was really like stressful, and today was just a practice. Next week we get graded on it, and then we have individual drills as well. We watched a video this week a plane that emergency landed with Air Transat. It was intense! They had lost like their whole fuel, mid-flight to Portugal, and planned an emergency ditching in the Atlantic ocean. So the cabin was secure and ready for ditching, but they ended up gliding for 45 minutes more, and made it to an island in the Azores, and landed on a military base without any engines, just brakes, so it wasn't pretty but everyone lived. So we watched a video of the flight crew describing it, and it was just crazy. First time most of us really kicked in that we are going to have to be ready for those circumstances everyday!!! So this week, well I'm off tomorrow,.. so excited to sleep! And then we have first aid day, learn to serve lunch day, and security day.. and then its mostly just testing left! So its flying by! I am putting my base choices as 1st-Toronto, 2nd- Montreal, 3rd Vancouver.. simply because, the teachers pretty much told us, if we live in Vancouver we wont have very many flights, cause they mostly fly to Europe, and rarely do that distance... and Montreal will be full because they have so many people that want to transfer there now, and they have priority because they are already in the field, and Toronto is the only place where I actually know people, and I'll have awesome flights from there! so hopefully we will find out soon, but probably not before next week, which is crazy, since we will have to move then! Alright.. enough from my end.. nothing else new.. Happy Mothers to all the special mothers, especially MINE, my best Friend! <3 <3 <3