I'm so awful at this blog business..

Well.. Figured after a month I'd come back and fill you in on my life... the only reason I remembered this existed, was from logging into MSN.. (grade 6 style) and seeing it in my status.. then I was embarassed it was in my status.. and removed it, thinking the last post was in like June something.. so I apologize.. for anyone that looks at this on any kind of basis!! I feel like June was years ago.. so much has happened! I ended up having the last week of June off, and the first week of July, so I was home for about 15 days, it was beautiful! I had my favourite day of the year off, Canada Day, of Course! and Spent it as usual, dressing like a loser and showing my patrioticness with Erinn!! I spent a lot of the next week with Mom, and the family! It was such a beautiful two weeks, so fortunate for the weather,  think it rained like one day! Me and Beth got a great tan to say the least!! I was so lucky to be able to spend the whole weekend on PEI for the Cavendish Beach Music Festival as welll... AND I also saw Will and Kate.. the more I talk about these two weeks at home, the more I appreciate it all!! The Concerts were AMAZING.. every show, was unforgettable, and totally worth every cent! Everyone put on an outstanding performance, and I was not dissappointed once the whole weekend. We had to say goodbye to our best friend and love of life on July 7th, It was probably the hardest thing I have had to deal with to date, but it's getting a little easier each day! I never imagined you could get that close to an Animal, and also never dreamed we would be burying her less then 2 years after we got her. I am so thankful I spent every day with her prior, and got some beautiful photo's as well! It also made it twice as hard to come back to Toronto for some reason.. I had no desire to get on the plane for he first time back, and operate a flight to London! Once I got there and got rollin' I was good to go though, and I have done 3 pairings since. (all londons) The weather there is such a nice break leaving from the Tropical Toronto. Literally, it probably isn't even this hot in Africa! I think they broke records from hundreds of years today.. with a temperature of like 39, before humidity! Insane right? These poor people on my flights vacationing here.. GO TO PEI! Today On my flight.... So ironically, someone asked me if I knew who wrote Anne of Green Gables.. It was a question in their crossword.. so strange eh?! I had a really nice flight today, no complainers, lots of laughs, and lots of people to talk to to pass the time!! We arrived right on time, into the blazing heat.. and Angie picked me upand we headed downtown! We ate on the rooftop bar, and drank a few beers, then decided to hit up the Fountain, and cool off!! So much fun! and It was the first day we have had off together in about a month!! Tomorrow I am heading back to London, again! I am really going to try and be more interesting, I promise :) May the sun shine your way and brighten your day!! Oh, and Check out this SUPER convenient Watch for a Flight Attendant!!!!!

Woops! Forgot about my Blog!

So, I haven't wrote on here for way too long!

Paris was really cool! It seems like so long ago I was there! I was lucky and ended up going with someone from my class, so we spent the whole time together. We arrived at noon, and didnt sleep all night, but we didn't want to sleep in Paris, so we stayed awake all day and toured around. The other flight attendants told us that we were lucky because we will never get many flights to Paris from Toronto, most are from montreal, one of the flight attendants hadn't had one for 10 years!! So we enjoyed it as much as we could! Our hotel was right along the water, so it was really good location. We got on one of those hop on hop off buses and toured around the whole city. We saw every main attraction.. all my pictures look the same now that I look at them tho.. all old buildings and a lot looks like London! After I got home from Paris I went to PEI for a week! It was super, minus the weather. So cold!! Its been so hot in toronto, going to PEI, felt like it was the fall again! I did jump in the pool once tho, just to say I went in! I got back to Toronto on Monday, and flew to London on Tuesday! It was nice to go somewhere I have been before, just so I could actually not feel like I had to stay awake, and tour around! I slept for 4 hours when I got there, and then went for supper with a girl from my class! We went for Indian food, and it was beautiful.. then met up with a Pilot who graduated with us, and we went for drinks and hung out in the Lobby for a bit later on! It was fun, and relaxing, and I slept more then anything else really when I was there, but it felt good! I got back last night, and now tonight I am going back to Glasgow for the weekend. THEN, I have 2 weeks off! wooo hooo!! Country concerts, wedding, and hopefully some beautiful weather! Can't wait!! The flying is going good! I have had for the most part some really amazing crews, who have been super helpful, and a lot easier! My flight home from Paris my Flight Director was kinda mean.. but I survived, and they told us that we will come across some like that! Blue Rodeo was on the plane we operated last night, they got off and then we got on... but kinda interesting!! other than that, havent met anyone really wild or anyone who stood out! See you all sooon!!!! Common Summer!!!

Life of a Flight Attendant = Unreal!

Well, All I can say is wow! I am loving life.. after a week that is! I am sure I will complain someday, but how can I after the first 10 days! When I got back from Glasgow, I slept very well! I was kind of nervous that I wouldn't be able to sleep, and then be tired for my next flight, but It worked out fine! I went to London the next evening! I was lucky to have another great crew to London! I had a different position this time, in the middle of the plane. The last two flights I had worked at the back, helping set everything up mainly, but this time I was servin left right and center! I had a jumpseat right in the middle of the plane too, and was pretty much touching knees with some passengers in front of me!! It was cosy! We had a super smooth nice flight to London. We got there at 10am, and then took this really nice Bus to Birmingham. We all slept the whole way! I went right to bed when we got to the hotel too, and slept until 6:30 or so! Its so hard when your in these beautiful new places, and all you want to do is sleep! (there is a picture of birmingham there.. but it kinda looks more like venice!)I woke up and Phil came to visit me, and we went for supper and some drinks! It was super nice to see him, and catch up! I went back and had a bath.. which is so inviting in all these hotels we stay in!! I got up early the next day and did some shopping before we had to take off! We flew from Birmingham to Toronto at 1. So we arrived around 4pm! We had a medical incident on that flight, a lady got really sick and was kind of passing in and out, then her son fainted watching her get sick! So we called for doctors and ther were luckily 2 on board and they took good care of the passengers. Its pretty nerve wrecking when someone is that sick.. not like we can just pull over anywhere for them. It must feel so awful being really sick on a plane! Most of the time you feel like crap on a plane anyway! When we arrived in Toronto, Angie picked me up and we went for supper and caught up! Its been so Hot in toronto, broke the record of 60 years yesterday here.. it was 43 with the humidity! Luckily we found some great islanders and hung out at their pool all day(picture of pool)!! So Thankful!, it was amazing. Today Angie headed home for a week, and tomorrow I head to PARIS for the weekend.. should be interesting.. but to be honest I'm more nervous about using my french al weekend then I am excited to go!! I am heading home to the Island on Monday if all goes well, and should be home for the whole week! Hopefully some of this Central Canadian heat will move on down the coast and keep me good company next week! We have a facebook group so that we can post our schedules and switch our flights around if we want to, so its really convienent. I was suppose to go back to Glasgow this weekend, but I switched it for a Paris flight, and then was suppose to go to Glasgow again the 19th, but switched it for a London on the 21st.... so its really easy to swtich things around, which is awesome for us! We can pretty much go home whenever we want! We have to fly standby with Porter, so as long as the planes not full, we get home for free :)! Hope I didn't bore you... I will update you soon on my Paris experience.. should be interesting!! A Bientot!!

First pairing = Success!

So, Im back in Toronto.. after a wild few days! Survived my first pairing! Woo hoo! It was so cool! I was pretty nervous heading to the airport, but once I got there, all my stress left. We arrived in the crew room to find out there were 8 crew doing their first flight, the 9th started in January, and the 10th and 11th were our Flight director and Assistant Flight director! They were amazing, and helped us so much. We were so luck to have such awesome people working with us, or it could have been a disaster! The passengers were amazing, can't expect anything less coming from Scottish Passengers.. so much fun!! The flight flew by. I was worknig at the back of the plane, helping with the Galley work most of the time, but I did lts of serving as well. At the end of the flight, Marc, our flight director announced it was out first flight, and everyone clapped.. so I guess we did something right! When we got to Glasgow it was such a rush, so neat! It was 7am, so we all went to sleep until noon, then went and walked around and shopped, and then the whole crew went for drinks and supper together! It was really nice! The accents in Glasgow are outrageous.. I honestly couldn't understand half the time... some of our crew were like " are they actually speaking English", so funny! My Flight back was not as exciting as my flight there.. we had a very bumpy flight.. and I was working at the back again, so it was even worse! Midflight, everything going really smooth.. we sit down and have our break and we are eating.. then the plane just goes out of control for a few seconds, and people let out some screams.. and it was scaryy! We all fastened our seat belts and just waited.. then the Pilot made an announcement that a Jumbo Jet had flown over us and gave us a big gust of wind... We were all nervous after that.. and then we had to go through a storm to land, and it was very turbulent! Im glad that I had those two experiences in my first few flights, now I know what to expect. but I hope it doesn't happen again!! I am back in TO for a little rest, then I am heading to London Gatwick tomorrow, and then deadheading to Birmingham for a night, then back to Toronto for 2 days off!! Its all very exciting.. I am loving walking through the airport in my uniform.. someone already asked for for directions the other day, and then another man in scotland asked me today, and I couldnt help him.. (but it was in the scotland airport, so I had good reason).. hes like, "you look like someone that should know things".. I was like yea.. "look".... So my first experience was super.. looking forward to the next... I am running on Glascow time at the moment.. 1am.. so confusing to get a sleeping pattern. but I think as long as I sleep i'll be fine... Happy June everyone.. enjoy the sunshine, when it decides to come back!!!!

YYZ-GLA-BHX

Well.. Sorry for the lack of posts in the last week! It was been a crazy busy week! We graduated on Friday, and it was a fun day. There were around 135 of us graduating, and 46 Pilots as well! We all piled into the hanger and had a nice little ceremony!! Immediately after the ceremony me and Angie peaced out and went to Toronto!! We stayed in a cheap hotel! Air Transat paid for us to go home for a few days, so I arrived home on Saturday and was there until thursday! It was so nice to get home and spend time with Mom! Its basically all I did, other then fill my tummy at nanny and baba's every lunch time, which was wonderful!! I headed back to toronto on thursday, and air transat put us up in the delta downtown for a few nights! It was really nice to be exactly in the middle of all the action. I can't say I ever dreamed I would be a city girl, or even enjoy the city, but I am loving toronto so far. Its just so amazing to have ANYTHING and everything you need at your fingertips.. literally! We are waiting to hear from our landlord about when we can move in, we will be moving into a basement apt in Brampton, Missisauga. We have it for June 1st, but we are hoping the people that are living there now will leave before then so we can have a few days to set up before we have to fly away! Since we have been in toronto we have pretty much just been eating, and having some drinks, and shopping and exploring! We walked around a lot each day, and went to china town, and the kensington market, and then we went to a Blue jays came today, which was awesome! We left our car near the airport and took the bus/subway to the city. Imagine.. two east coast girls trying to get downtown by ourselves.. so this is how it worked.. we asked the front desk how to get to a bus station, she told us. we went. we get on the bus and then we didnt know when we had to get off. so we asked the bus driver, he wasnt too friendly, and didn't help us at all really. While we were stopping at a stop we "thought" we had to get off at, we asked a nice lady beside us if we were at the right stop.. she said no sit down and stay on until the last stop. so we got that far... While we were on our way there, two guys around our age got on our bus and were dressed in blue jay apparel. perfect.. we can follow them.. we struggled to keep up at first, then just decided we'd tell them. turned out good for us. They brought us right to the seats at the jays game, and even gave us a beer for the ride!! we sat with them and 4 other guys they met up with.. it was fun! we had pretty decent seats, and the atmosphere is actually surpringly better then a hockey game.. in a way!! The weather has been the shits here lately, been rainy pretty much everyday, but looks like we have a hot week ahead! Tomorrow we have orientation at the airport.. get the ins and outs of the whole thing.. it will def be cool!! We got our schedules also! I will be flying to scotland every friday this month, and staying until sunday or monday.. and then coming back.. I am also flying to birmingham once as well for a few days! Its gonna be an exciting month!! Everyone got really cool schedules! I am on my first flight with two other people who were in our class.. so its a relief that I won't be the only new one!! Thats my latest!! Hope everyone is enjoying the warmer weather!! Can't wait to have a few days on the beach in between shifts!! thinking of all the family at home this weekend, especially minerva, dwayne, and mel,... and of course my mother!xoxo

Toronto Toronto Toronto!

So I'll make this short and sweet, and I haven't taken any pictures since my last post to show! This week has been so exciting! We passed all of our group drills on the weekend, and had our final exam on Tuesday! My average for all my exams was 96%! So I did really well! So after our exam we went on our Fam Flight. IT was really cool! We went for about 2 hours. They didn't have real turbulence to show us, so the pilots actually just like flew straight down really fast and then back up and then side to side like sharp turns.. it felt really cool.. and people were like falling that were standing up!! So they just brought us through a typical emergency flight procedure! Then we got off and got our awesome luggage, with our uniforms inside!! So interesting! I have taken pictures I guess with my uniform, but I will save posting them until we actually get professional ones done! The uniform and luggage is really awesome, we are spoiled!! We got our bases after that, even though I knew I was getting Toronto. There were 137 people in our class, and about 120 are in toronto, and 10 in vancouver and 7 in montreal! So even if I had chose another base I prob woulda been sent to Toronto anyway! Today we had classroom session of like info we need to know all day, and same for tomorrow. So today we learned our scheduling procedure a little, and our safety forms we need to fill out, and our benefits! So interesting. We are on a 6 month probation until we can use them, but for now we can still request for extra jumpseats on flights with air transat and canjet for free.. so Its gonna be an awesome summer! Our parents get like basically free, and we get to pick a companion (prob Rod).. and then we can bring a buddy anytime we want for a flat rate of 200$ to any destination for the buddy, as long as we are with them! Its also with like porter, virgin, soutwest, alaskan, hawiian, porter, canjet etc.. airlines! there are a ton I'v never even heard of, but I'm sure I will be putting them all to good use! So exciting! Tomorrow we learn a bit more about it, also our pay and stuff too! So thats about it so far! We have a hotel at the hilton next week in Toronto for a week for some more meetings and orientation, so it's all gonna be exciting!! Glad to hear the sun came out at home today :P Hope all is well!!

6 more Sleeps!!

Another week down!! only 6 more days to go, until we are in full Uniform at the Graduation!! Can't wait! Our week this week was much more exciting then the last few! It was a lot of hands on! We learned about HiJackers, our secret codes when there are hijackers, all the first aid stuff we need to know, and how to fight fires, (in heels)!! We have no more exams now, except the final one on Tuesday! Today we are doing our individual emergency demo's for our teachers. So she tells me what position I am on the plane, and then yells BRACE BRACE BRACE! and we need to go from there and do the whole, emergency, bend down, take off seat belts, use the closest exit, jump on the raft, and then tell her the emergency equipment we need to bring off, then jump off! So It sounds kinda easy but we cant even miss one word (in french or English) or we don't pass.. we have 3 shots at it! And there is different procedures for landing on land, and landing in the water!!  So we do individual today, and group drills tomorrow! then Monday I'm not sure whats left to do! Thursday was really fun. When we got to class we all had to go get fire extinguishers and go outside and put out a fire the right way. Then we got to go on the plane, and serve each other for a few hours! So we sat up in first class, ate first class meals, drank first class wine, and learned how to work the ovens and everything! Our teacher insisted we try each of the 4 kinds of wine (so we will know for reference).. so we didn't disagree... it was fun!! Except for writing two exams after having 4 glasses of wine! haha! I got 98% and 97%.. so I guess it helped!! I had yesterday off, and it was another beautiful day! Sorry to all you maritimers with all the rain!! Sounds awful! Its been sunny and over 20 here all week! Yesterday we went for brunch, 3 girls in my class, and then walked around downtown all afternoon! We went to see the movie Bridesmaids..highly recommended... I have never laughed so hard consecutively for that amount of time! So hilarious!! Then I met up with some friends from the east coast, and went out to eat at a Mexican restaurant downtown!! It was yummy! Thennn, it finally started to rain, so now I feel your pain! I am pretty positive I am getting places in Toronto! I emailed one of the ladies to ask, because I want to start looking for places to live! Its not gonna be easy getting there and finding somewhere in only a few days, so I'm looking now! She told me that most positions are going to be in Toronto, and that I will most likely be there!! But I think we find out for sure Monday! We have our exam on Tuesday, and then Wednesday and Thursday are Admin days, where we get to find out our schedules, our benefits, get our uniforms, get our airport pass's.. all the stuff we have been waiting for for the whole training!! I better go study my commands now.. Enjoy your weekends :)