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Pieces of writing based on my job as a Flight Attendant.

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I love days at work where people want to talk about their passions with me. When I get to work with interesting and ambitious people it makes me realise how talented flight attendants are. Today I worked with a writer who told me all about conspiracy theories in the US (and gave me a book that he wrote!) The other day I worked with a lady who works 3 days a week as a theatre scrub nurse while she’s not flying. Some creating entire businesses on the side while flying spending every spare moment working towards something a lot bigger and others studying. There’s a lot more to us then beef, chicken or fish (so stop getting mad when we run out of your meal choice, because we’ve all got bigger things on our minds 😂)✌🏼

I count my lucky stars DAILY ✨

Torrell and I had a slight altercation about the colour of my dress, I said Emerald Green which without a doubt is correct! He said Navy Blue, so he bought navy blue pants to match with my emerald green dress 😂❤️

We were so lucky to have our friend @leoikinepule do our makeup yesterday! Thank you Leone for making us feel and look beautiful! We appreciate your work!! Hands down the best makeup I’ve had done, ever! 💄💋

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BERLIN! To think three years ago you were just a familiar face from the past and now life wouldn’t be the same without you ❤️

I can’t even geo tag this place because I don’t know what it’s called or how we even got here! All I know is I was glad there was a couch after walking around Shanghai in chucks! What was I thinking!

Everyone else was walking on the road and taking photos, so we did the same 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

I’ve woken up this morning BURNT 🦀

The rarest of occasions when all our rosters aligned to put us in Sydney together! The perfect way to start a trip to a new destination for me SHANGHAI!

If my job has taught me anything it’s that people have a warped view on certain destinations and travel. If you go into an experience expecting a certain outcome very rarely will you experience anything different. You will spend your entire time searching for the confirmation you’re seeking. This is called confirmation bias. Here’s an example. How many cabin crew dislike going to Johannesburg? How many of you have told other crew about all the bad experiences you’ve heard and been through? How many of those crew have arrived in Johannesburg having already made up their mind about it? I want to dispel all the preconceived biases we’ve learnt through truthful writing✌🏼

Does anyone remember Kashin the Elephant from Auckland Zoo? She was my first elephant encounter around the age of five. I was feeding her an apple and I dropped it and it rolled all the way to the end of the enclosure. I had to chase it in front of so many people 😂 She was an Asian Elephant and also lived her entire life in a zoo. She was a lot smaller then this male African elephant! Here we are looking into each others eyes 😍😂 Also the guide kept calling the elephants Ellies so every time he’d say it I’d look up and be like “huuuh whaaat” 😂

Peep that little hand hold 🤗 Full disclosure we visited this sanctuary with the knowledge of it being a kind of “halfway house” where rescued elephants arrive, recover, get rehabilitated and get released. However from my observations and this is purely my assumptions based on what I saw the elephants were extremely well trained. Which made me think how long had they actually been there for. They were poked with a metal rod when they didn’t behave, I don’t believe a wild animal should be made to “behave” for us. The enclosures were small, they did say they let them roam the bush when people aren’t there though, and they offer riding which I would never condone and thank goodness no one in our group did it. So that was the real experience and I guess with this information you can decide whether or not you think it’s acceptable or not. In hindsight for me maybe not so much. I love elephants and while I so badly wanted that interaction seeing the reality of the “sanctuary” was an eye opener. Know before you go 🐘💙

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