Do you want to be a flight attendant?

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Do you want to be a flight attendant? If the answer is YES then continue reading..

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Did you know I went to two failed airline interviews before I landed my dream job with Emirates Airline? You can read about all the interviews here, here, here, and here. I list some really helpful do’s and don’ts that I picked up on. I did a ton of research – and had a few of my own personal trials and errors.

My best friend in this entire job-hunting process was not a person – but a website! This will be YOUR best friend too. This website updates DAILY.  It lists most commercial/private airlines and when they might be hiring. It also will tell you any open-house interviews they might be conducting in a town near you! This website definitely deserves all the credit for recommending to me the Emirates open house interview in San Francisco!

If anyone ever asks me tips for becoming a flight attendant, this website is the first thing I give them!

I already highlighted tips of how to prepare for an interview here so I wont go over that again.

Flying has it all.. excitement, satisfaction, exhaustion, thrills, homesickness, new adventures, wonder, defining moments. The good and the bad combined, it was an experience I am so lucky to have had.

Good luck!

TBT to circa 2016

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Newbie in Training: Deja vu!

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Here I go again, back in training college but this time for a different airline.

Yep. I am back in the aviation world! I said good bye to carbs and hello to airplane food.

Can you spot me in the group of 9 new hires as cabin hostesses?

It’s a mix of girls from Venezuela, US, China, Poland, Spain, Argentina, and France.

Most of us have the same flight background (think red hat) and we are excited to start flying PRIVATE!

We American girls (there are 3 of us) arrived a day early and got to see the sights. Our training is taking place on the lovely island of Malta. My first time 🙂

It’s beautiful.

How to describe Malta… hmmm… very rustic, Italian/Arab. Which makes sense as this island is smack dab in between Italy and Northern Africa (Tunisia/Libya). I have been feasting on pasta and wine every day!

It is day two of our training. Only two more weeks to go!

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A German Folktale

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German bedtime stories are a little more gruesome than American ones (check out the original story of The Little Mermaid…)

I am visiting my friend in Germany. Here is the “cute” fairytale story she and I went to see. We had heard we could read parts of a German fairytale as we went through a forest . As we went further we would read more and more of the Germany fairytale.

It was not what we expected..

My friend translated it for me as we went and we were shocked. I have used the handy google translator to translate the story for you here on my blog … here it is.

The robbers from the Mordkuhlenberg – retelling the legend in shorthand

Once upon a time long ago, common robbers raged in the beautiful Dammer mountains. You can also read the legend at the scene of action, at the Mordkuhlenberg observation tower. A book with the legend and predatory poems as well as a radio play CD are also available.

The Miss Anna Maria Wieferich

At the height of their misdeeds, they kidnapped a young girl from Steinfeld named Anna Maria Wieferich. She had to keep the robbers housekeeping for many years, and every year the robber captain gave her a child. The robbers hung each newborn baby like a doll on a clothesline and bellowed: Knipperdoehnken, Knipperdoehnken, Well, young dancers drown. Knipperdoehnken, Knipperdoehnken, Well, young dancers drown.

The service on Easter Sunday

After seven years and countless requests Anna Maria was finally allowed to attend the service on Easter Sunday in Damme. She swore before the robbers the Christian and predatory oath, to be silent to the church visitors and to betray nothing of the cave. She promised, but secretly she had come up with a clever idea.

The lamentation

After the service ended, she stood by the wall of the church tower and told the walls as if they were the people, their story of suffering. She always whispered:

Church wall, I complain,

My name is Anna Maria Wieferich.

I sprinkle peas on my way

to where I’m going to sleep.

This whisper was echoed back from the walls and quickly spread among the churchgoers.

The cave of the robbers

Anna Maria returned to the robbers as promised. On the way she spread peas, so you could follow their trail. The attentive churchgoers informed the pastor in Damme and this the bishop in Osnabrück. The bishop immediately sent soldiers into the Dammer Mountains, and the field guard who had found the trail of the peas had a soldier disguised as a merchant. As the hooves of his horse fell into the fine strings, the silver bells sounded in the cave. The robbers sprang up and attacked the merchants, but the soldiers ambushed and arrested them.

The robbers are being made the process

The robbers were brought to trial in the Dammer court. Immediately after the verdict, the robbers were hanged and dangled like dolls in the wind on the gallows as the robbers had previously hung the newborn children on the clothesline.

Textual basis after the play “Die Räuber vom Mordkuhlenberg” by the Dammer director Bernd Kessens

It’s a pretty rough story, right ?! This forest is located in Damme, Germany which is part of Norther Germany , close to Diepholz.

Here were the little story paragraphs:

The end of the story was at a top of this wooden viewpoint . It wasn’t bad 😉

BRB, making dragons

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Hey! I’m still alive.

and making bread .

In case you were worried.

Who is watching the game of thrones finale on Sunday?! Spoiler alert! One of khaleesi’s dragons turns into bread !

Just kidding’

Anyways, I have two trips planned this year , one of them is on Emirates (the airline I used to fly for). It will be fun to see how they are doing and what changes have happened since I last flew 3 years ago. Can’t wait!

Well, signing off . Hopefully it doesn’t take me another year to check back in . Hehe!

(It is 1am and I have 7 more hours left of work.. joy)

A thought

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“I have prayed for thee.”

Luke 22:32

How encouraging is the thought of the Redeemer’s never- ceasing intercession for us. When we pray, he pleads for us; and when we are not praying, he is advocating our cause, and by his supplications shielding us from unseen dangers. Notice the word of comfort addressed to Peter—”Simon, Simon, Satan hath desired to have you that he may sift you as wheat; but”—what? “But go and pray for yourself.” That would be good advice, but it is not so written. Neither does he say, “But I will keep you watchful, and so you shall be preserved.” That were a great blessing. No, it is, “But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.” We little know what we owe to our Saviour’s prayers. When we reach the hill-tops of heaven, and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God hath led us, how we shall praise him who, before the eternal throne, undid the mischief which Satan was doing upon earth. How shall we thank him because he never held his peace, but day and night pointed to the wounds upon his hands, and carried our names upon his breastplate! Even before Satan had begun to tempt, Jesus had forestalled him and entered a plea in heaven. Mercy outruns malice. Mark, he does not say, “Satan hath desired to have you.” He checks Satan even in his very desire, and nips it in the bud. He does not say, “But I have desired to pray for you.” No, but “I have prayed for you: I have done it already; I have gone to court and entered a counterplea even before an accusation is made.” O Jesus, what a comfort it is that thou hast pleaded our cause against our unseen enemies; countermined their mines, and unmasked their ambushes. Here is a matter for joy, gratitude, hope, and confidence.

December in Review

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-Working during the holiday craze at Boudin. I don’t know what it is about thanksgiving and Christmas (or maybe it’s because the weather turned cold) but the people want their bread! Busy, busy.

– Christmas cabin ! Our family’s favorite tradition of air bnb-ing a cabin over christmas. We do it in Tahoe , because SNOW!

(See the Three Cousins video of the Christmas cabin fun here )

 

– New Years resolution: to answer all these questions.

Goodbye 2017. You were a good one.