becoming a flight attendant

So as most of you already know, I'm currently employed as a flight attendant for Jetstar Australia. I've been working for almost two months now and so far I'm loving it! It does get intense sometimes and people can be really shitty (crew and passengers) but nevertheless I'm still so happy to be making at least some progress in pursuing my dream hehe

1. Applying

I actually applied in December last year, I think I was just browsing for jobs on seek or something and it caught my eye. I wrote a really long and passionate cover letter and hoped for the best.. Looking back on that cover letter I'm just like ugh cringe but wHATEVER THEY LIKED IT! A few days later they got back to me requesting that I complete an online exam on geography, first aid, maths, customer service etc.

Aaaaaand I didn't hear back for another six months..

2. Phone interview

Finally in May this year they called me out of nowhere and asked if I was still interested in the job. I said yes and they were like 'is it okay to do a phone interview right now?'. I was soooo unprepared obviously since they hadn't been in touch with me for six months and I forgot I even applied for the job.. After the phone interview I was pretty sure I fucked it up so I didn't think much of it

Until they emailed me yay!!

3. Assessment day

I don't think I even slept the night before... I was so nervous about what was ahead of me - the group interview, one on one, roleplay, everything!! I got there and immediately wanted to go back home because everyone looked so intimidating omg I felt so young and out of place. Now that I look back, I don't know why I had such little confidence in my abilities tbh I think I compared myself to the other applicants too much. The day started with an introduction on the company followed by a short one on one interview. And then we had a group interview which involved some roleplay, selling, group work etc. - I was dreading this part so much but I actually did alright! After that we were all sent outside to have lunch and they told us 'if you don't receive a call from us by 12:45 it means you won't be proceeding to the next stage' fUCK this was literally the longest half an hour of my life. I couldn't even do anything during this time so I just sat in the car and stress ate my lunch. It was like 12:42 and by this time I was already heaps depressed snapping Gina all these sad pictures with captions like 'who was I kidding why would they hire me' HAHA. They ended up calling me with 2 minutes to spare and I was so happy I wish I had the snaps I sent Gina after the call they're so funny omg. I went back to the assessment centre, did my second one on one interview and then went home and waited for a response.

About a week later I got an email inviting me to the final stage, ground school!

4. Ground school

Ground school was the most intense four weeks of my life. Most people have this misconception that flight attendants don't know anything except how to serve food and drinks and clean up after people. While I do have some damn good selling and cleaning skills, I'm also the person who's going to save your ass in an emergency. Nobody really thinks about what kind of training we have to go through to ensure everybody is going to get out of that aircraft safely. Some days we'd be on the aircraft until two in the morning yelling out evacuation commands over and over again. At one point in the ground school we were all sent to Melbourne where we even had to act out a ditching evacuation in the water, rafts, fake rain, and everything!

I was given three manuals, all hundreds of pages long, all about the procedures we have to follow in both normal and non-normal situations. To make it even more intense, we'd have an exam related to some kind of safety or emergency procedure almost everyday and the pass marks were always either 80 or 100%. We all basically had to give up our lives for four weeks and devote all our spare time to studying our manuals and memorising our drills. Tbh I think I put in the least effort out of everyone and I eventually became known as the one who went out all the time and still somehow managed to not fail anything.. I think I opened my manual maybe idk once in the whole four weeks and still managed a high 90s average in the end (senk d lord 4 d ability 2 learn quickly)

Some didn't make it until the end which was pretty sad, apparently we started with 26 people and only 17 of us graduated. At the very beginning we were told that there's always about two people who don't make it through and straight away I thought I would be one of them since I was one of the quieter people in the group.. LOL I WAS SO HARD ON MYSELF ZZZzz

5. Line training

In this last part of our training we were sent out on actual flights to do what's called a 'line check' where the cabin manager would basically watch you do what you've learnt and then decide your fate. At this point there were still many opportunities to fail so it was pretty scary. After a few training shifts, I was finally checked to line and was ready to be sent out on my own dun dun dunnnnnn

6. First shift

Since I'm the luckiest person in the world, of course I get one of the strictest cabin managers in existence for my first shift. It was so bad he even made me cry LOL..... it's okay I've learnt to be stronger since then no1 fuks wit me now

7. Now

I think everything is going really well so far. Most passengers think I've been doing my job for years which I guess is a good sign! I love how everyday is different and how I'm constantly learning new things and developing more as a person. Even though some people can be really shitty, most of the people I meet day to day are heaps cool. Deferring uni and starting this job while I wait for an opportunity to get into flying was definitely the right decision ~no ragrets~

Okay w o w this post is getting really long. Tldr; the entire process in becoming a flight attendant was hard but well worth it LOL I hope you guys were able to gain some sort of insight on my experience and found this post somewhat interesting!

best meal of my life

I'm literally about to explode from being so full (my fault for eating so much cake after dinner) but before I fall into the deepest of food comas I need to blog about the amazing experience I had at Sepia restaurant earlier tonight.

Amuse bouche - this had sardines in it, normally I wouldn't eat sardines ok wait actually prior to this I had never eaten a sardine in my life because they look really unappetising. The actual sardine component of the dish was reaaaally crunchy and the whole time I just pretended the crunch wasn't coming those tiny little fish with their tiny little eyes omg (I can not stand small seafood, I have the same problem with fish eggs and dried shrimp idk why)

First course - I'm not even going to bother explaining any of these dishes because it'll take way too long and I've already forgotten most of it, but this first one was a spanner crab dish and I loved it. It was sweet and savoury and acidic and refreshing all at the same time! Great way to start a great meal.

Second course - also amazing even though it had a runny egg in it! I find yolks really gross especially when they're runny so I was kind of bummed when I lifted the fish and saw all this yellow ooze dripping onto my fried potato.. Since I already bursted it by the time I discovered it I just put it in my mouth and I actually liked it a lot .. 

By this point my tastebuds were in shock like how can food be so good what even

Next we were given our bread and butter. EVEN THEIR BUTTER WAS AMAZING HOW DO YOU EVEN MAKE BUTTER LOOK LIKE THIS

I swear, put 'Japanese' in front of anything and it's almost always better hahaha this was Japanese milk bread and wow who knew something as simple as bread could be soooo good

Third course - Abalone! It doesn't look like much, but this dish was basically a cupful of orgasms in my mouth ugh

Fourth course - Seared scampi sushi. I didn't think things could get better than the first three courses but I was wrong... Very wrong. This was one of the highlights of the whole night. It looks like a simple and humble little gunkan sushi but don't be fooled holy shit. The flavour and texture combinations in this dish were on a whole new level I'd never experienced with sushi before. Absolutely amazing.

Finding it hard to comprehend what I just ate

Fifth course - Shiitake mushroom nigiri. This one was also very good but not on the same level as the one we'd just had. Nevertheless I still very much enjoyed it!

Sixth course - Roasted duck. I loooove duck, it's one of my favourite meats! This did not disappoint at all, the duck was cooked perfectly and went perfectly with the sauces on the side.

7th and last savoury course - David Blackmore wagyu beef. A great way to end the savoury component of the meal. Again, everything worked so well together and even though I'm not a fan of mustard at all, I found myself using it all up because it was that good paired with the beef.

Pre dessert - Berries with salted white chocolate and frozen sherbet?! Normally when I think of sherbet I just remember those little sickeningly sweet packets from a long time ago that came with the plastic spoon LOL. This was nothing like that (thank god), a very light refreshing dessert to prepare us for what was coming next heheheh

Dessert - this dish was pretty much what made me want to come to Sepia in the first place. I'd seen it a million times in photos finally today was the day I got to try it!!! I was not left disappointed at all w o w it had soooooo many elements in it and they all just worked together in such beautiful harmony (I sound like I'm on drugs sorrry). I mean what the fuck it even had liquorice in it, I hate liquorice but I still thought it was great

I only had a spoonful of this dessert so I can't really say much, but apparently it was also really good!

'Japanese stones' - this is a not-so-secret secret item which is only available upon request. Our waiter was kind enough to ask the kitchen to make it for us and I'm so glad they did because it was deeeeelicious. They look like ordinary stones but the outside is actually made of chocolate and each one was filled with a different flavour mmm

Overall, tonight was a faultless dining experience I'll never forget!!!! Feeling very blessed ahhhhh time to fall into my food coma ^-^

new hair + updates

It's kind of an ash blonde/brown/grey colour and even though my hair is probably never going to recover from all the bleach, I love it!! I was feeling pretty horrible that day (what's new lol) so I did what any rational person would do and spent $500 on my hair to make myself feel better ..... I guess it was worth it though, very pleased with the results!

Some more updates:

• Work is going well - I've been working for about 6 weeks now and I'm really enjoying it.  It is an intense job though and can get quite overwhelming at times but regardless I'm still very grateful I'm already in the aviation industry, so I try to give it my all everyday. I got asked a while ago to make a more detailed post about the whole process and everything, does anybody still want that posted?
• As for myself personally, things aren't going so well tbh - I'm trying to sort everything out though so hopefully things will get better over time
• Omg I fainted and fell backwards down the stairs the other day holy shit hahaha the ambulance had to come to my house and take me to the hospital.. I'm ok now though, I don't even remember any of it and my body almost fully healed! The next day I was already back at work and I even went clubbing #soldieron

• I'm literally just going to look through my photos now to see what's been happening since the last time I posted because I can't even remember anymore
• A couple of weeks ago my friend invited me to go and watch Matilda the musical - highly recommend seeing it if it's still out because it was gr9

• Ok now looking at my photos is making me realise I've kind of lost the plot with how much I've been going out to eat like wot is even going on anymore I mean these photos are all from the past week or two and I don't think this is even 10% of it

I used to be so on top of my diet what happened LOL at this rate I'll be rolling around in no time.. No ragrets though it was all delishus (maybe a little bit of ragrets)

• Speaking of being a fat shit, my gym membership unfroze this week so I have to get back into that nooooooo
• Nothing else has really been happening in my life, all I do is work and eat basically
• Holiday season is coming up so hopefully I'll get up to something interesting soon, I really need a break from everything!!
• Japan would be nice

Bennelong restaurant

The owner of Quay, Peter Gilmore, just opened his second restaurant in Sydney and I recently had the pleasure of eating lunch there! Even just writing about it now is making me wish I could go back in time and eat everything all over again ESPECIALLY DESSERT OMfg because it was such a good experience mmmmm

1st course - Lady Elliot Island bug 

Ok tbh I may or may not have ordered this so I could post a photo of it on instagram because look how photogenic it is!! (it tasted just as nice as it looked as well)

1st course - Seared scallops 

2nd course - Roasted holombrae duck

2nd course - Wagyu rump cap 

3rd course - Cherry jam lamington

Ok can we please take a moment and appreciate the fucking work of art that is this dessert?! I would seriously go back and just have three of these as my three course meal. I can't even explain in words how good it was like thank you very much Peter Gilmore 11/10 would eat again holy shit

3rd course - Chocolate cake from across the water

I can't stop thinking about that lamington now omg dskfjdkjfhsj

defqon 2015

I went to my first defqon 1 music festival last week! Despite the horrible weather it was actually so much fun and I can't wait to go again next year ^-^

First stop was Paper Plane Cafe in Parramatta. Such a cute little cafe with delicious food and pretty generous servings for their prices. I got the french toast which was sooo filling and not too sweet which was good!

Omg was taking snaps on the train and caught the guy behind me yawning HAHAHA

I got carried on someone's shoulders for the first time HAHA IT WAS SO COOL I COULD SEE EVERYTHING 

The second photo's supposed to be all of us showing our tattoos because two of my friends got new ones since I last saw them but instead it just looks like me being a loser punching the guy next to me in the face pls

You guys have to try sokyo's ramen pop up at the star it is amazing!!! I went there the next day and was not disappointed holy shit like usually I can't finish a whole bowl of ramen but this was an exception LOL

We had to stop by n2 as well and try the bounty flavour mmmm obssessed with coconut

Oh my god ok after n2 we found these phone cases and what the actual fuck HAHAHA I was so tempted to buy one for my new phone but I held back.. Having second thoughts now though yolo next time I get n2 I know what else I'm getting

London + I'm back!

I didn't really take any photos in London but I'll still post this because I feel kind of uneasy since I've posted about every other place I went to.. I've been back for just over a week now but I've been soooooooo busy with training. Ground school's very intense, I need wake up at about 5 - 6 am everyday so I won't be late for my 8 am start, and I'll usually have class until around 5 pm. It's going well though! The people are great, everyone's so nice like I've been pretty sick lately and idk everyone's been really caring and supportive. 

Anyway this is the only photo I took in London (my eyes are closed again so tragic)

And these are the last photos I took with my family before we left for Sydney. I miss them! Maybe not so much the body contact though idk they kiss you on the cheek so much and I don't like it when people do that to me LOL