The life of a new flight attendant

Ahoy! It's been a while since my last post and I'll try to remember what I've been upto...

My flight attendant training started on Nov. 14 until Dec. 15 of 2005. It was very intense and overwhelming. There were a lot of information and they really put on the stress. The classes were usually from 8am until 5pm, but we had to be at the training facility by 7:30am because breakfast was classroom time. Everyday, the instructors assign a crew of three people to serve both breakfast and lunch for the next day. Training was fun, stressful and challenging but I did it. We started with 38 people, 34 graduated. Mondays were exam days, a full day for evacuation exam, another full day for final uniform fitting and emergency equipment oral exam, then there was the three-part final exam. Of course, training would not be complete if we didn't jump into the freezing swimming pool for ditching day. Right after graduation, I caught the first flight home. The next day, I still worked at my old part-time job as well as the day after.

My orientation was Dec. 21 and 22. On the last day of orientation, I found out that there was a disturbing legal case between my two classmates. I got called in less than a week later for a legal interview about the case. I do hope that it gets resolved soon and the truth will be found.

My first flight was Christmas Eve. I did a FLL turn. The day after, I had the SDQ turn. Then, I had a two-day trip that had night layover in DFW and day layover in IAH. Then, I did an SFO turn. After my day off on the 30th, I picked up AA for New Year's Eve and picked up 4-day trip that had layovers in BOS, SLC and LAX. I was able to go home during this trip because of the 19 hours layover.

Today, I have a day off. After I try to pick up a trip, I'll get my dry cleaning. Starting tomorrow, I'm good again to fly for 6 days. Ahh...the life of a new flight attendant.