Long Distance Friendships :-(

[whiteflare]

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Ooh, that sounds pretty bad!

Don't worry - it doesn't sound like you mucked up too much, and they're going to appreciate your honesty.
It actually doesn't sound like all that bad of an interview. It's better than just sitting in front of the manager and having him/her grill you, I guess.

The Germans party? Oh, great! I've never been to a REAL party before. This should be kinda fun...

That's IF I decide to go.

I FAILED my German oral today. I'm kinda going off the idea in case I get a similar mental blank and forget everything i've ever learnt as soon as I open my mouth.

I'd rather talk to the manager. Lol. You have no idea, it was really weird.

I don't get embarrassed or shy hardly ever, and it freaked me out.



Honestly you'll probably be put with a family that has a "perfect" child.
That's what they did when exchange students came to our school.
My best friend and I weren't even allowed to invite them to come hang out with us outside of school. Wonder why?

I'm pretty sure most Germans know English. Or at least some. So if you got there and couldn't remember stuff, they'll be able to help you.
When do you find out if you can go?

Really? Hmm.... I've never had a job interview, so I guess I wouldn't know

I'm generally a very forward person, but I have a tendency to get self-conscious when I'm
a) trying something new
b) doing something I know I fail at.... like, speaking German

Ah, the Perfect child. I am far from the perfect child. Will probably freak my exchange parents out

I have hardly a social life, am more of a nerd and sometimes go incredibly moody when something bad happens.

Oh, that's no fun!

I'm not even going to TRY speaking any German besides 'Hello,' 'What's your name,' and 'I'd like the potato bake, please.' I'm pretty sure we're meant to go over there to practise, so I'm scared.


I'm submitting the forms today or tomorrow, and we get matched with a partner in a couple of months so we can start talking to them via email or Facebook or somethin'. Email for me

 

[SourRoses]

Oh that does sound seriously weird!!


Almost sounds like my flight attendant interview... only we didn't have to make up any commercials about it

We just had to memorize some really complex paragraphs (you know, some of the flight attendant litany) and try to spew that out on the first day during orientation.

Of course.. after about a half hour only of studying it on paper... most everyone was tripping over their tounges.. or using the wrong words... I did too.
There was just something about the way those sentences were constructed.... it wasn't the bigger words or anything.. it was the way the sentences rambled on and twisted back and forth... just wasn't at all like the way a person would go about forming speech! And I pride myself on my well... marvelous

speaking ability with my extensive vocabulary.

I can read the bible aloud without pause... old english aloud without a hiccup... technical mumbo jumbo just fine.... but remembering the wording of whomever wrote those convoluted, improper sentences was trying, I must say! How many 'and's are you allowed in an sentence? Because I think they waaay exceeded the rule

Sometimes I would stop to snort or giggle part way through... and I wasn't snorting at myself

Then we had to try to memorize hundreds of airport identity codes. BOI - Boise, SFW - Ft Myers, MOS - New Orleans, KOI - Kuhwani (spelling? have no idea.. hawaian), SAF - San Francisco, IAD - Chicago (?)... and this is where I'll leave off with the examples.. as my memory is getting fuzzy 2 years later.
Yet, we had to remember the codes for all the major airporst in he continental US, and Alaska, and Hawai.

When we were in Pheonix for training... we had to do horrible little skits... one on a paticular day... I was stuck in a random group of 8.. with my *Horrible* unreasonable room-mate girl. She was a few years younger.. 18 or 19 I suppose.. and soooo full of herself because she had been a dancer in a rap video on MTV. Anytime she could get away with it, she pranced around in these skirts where you could see her underwear if she so much as walked too fast.

Anyway.. back to the group... we were supposed to emulate a scene with a passenger with a complaint and a solution brought about by the flight attendant.
Those in the group wo thought they knew everything converged to *decide* what we were going to do (including roommate) while the other 5 of us converged to decide what we were going to do about them thinking they had the right to make decisions for everyone. FInally.. after some bickering.. the instructor came over and yelled at them to hold their conversation with the whole group... and then I took advantage of the opportunity to say that no matter what we did.. everyone should have a part in it.. since everyone wanted to be in the scene, it wasn't fair to exclude anyone.

So on we played this stupid scene... I was (forced by my stupid statement) to play the old lady passenger who was cold and needed a blanket. I was supposed to shiver...

So I tried.. but also I put on a croaky old lady voice which had people laughing... and he rest of the crew proceeded to take turns being the 2 flight attendants who provided the blanket

What a bunch of girls!! Everyone had to be the flight attendant

One other thing, out of the many weird things, that we had to do.... Everyday (for 6 weeks of training) we had to read aloud in class. From the projection screen.. where the FAA had all the mandated literature all worked out to their satisfaction... We had to go around the room (with the instructor looking bored out of her mind) and each of us would read a page... all day long.

I LOVED it! Of course I did.. the little crazy reader person I am.... but.. the part none of us loved... Some of the people (32 in the class) just... couldn't.. well... read! It was so akward... while they were stumbling over things.. and most everyone else took up the position we silently agreed on, of looking down at out hands in our laps or the tables.. and never EVER looking at each other.. or we would have burst out laughing! And we really really didn't want to!
There were about 5 people, that simply stumbled over anything put in front of them to read. There were others, of course, who tripped over the huge words of the official FAA rules.. so it was hard stuff.. and that wasn't so bad... but gee.. some.. just.. couldn't......

Towards the end of training the teacher finally stopped the going around the whole room thing.. and instead asked for volunteers... so of course then I and several others happily went along reading aloud most of the day... and class went soooo much faster.

We got to go on 'field' trips.. and evacuate airplanes! That was fun! For a whole day... one of us would pretend to be the flight attendant and the rest the passengers.. on this jet in the maitinence bay. The flight attendant would do all their stuff to evacuate everyone.. and then we'd switch off and the next would be the FA. We all HAD to pass safety with 100% marks.
That was fun! The FA would shout their litany... then when we would supposedly crash land (with the instructor lady pounding on the wall to simulate crashing sounds

).. we had to jump up.. properly stow our harness, shove the jumpseat back in the wall (so the pilots could get out of the cockpit).. still shouting our other litany in the meanwhile... open up the cabin door.. shouting our litany so hopefully we weren't trampled... see all the students gallop off the plane without tripping over eachother (to the instructors stopwatch).. then the FA runs back.. check the lav for any wayward passengers.. grab this medical gear from this overhead bin, and that from that bin.. and race off the plane.. again to the instructors stopwatch.

It was fun! Except.. if a person messed up.. the whole class was there to see them.. and the instructor would stop them and make them start again. She insisted that we shout as looooud as we could.. and the first few people got screamed at until they shouted back loudly enough for her.....
The rest of us were really desperate to avoid that

Thankfully, apparently, my "I'm getting angry now" big bellow was loud enough... cause I can't shout if I'm not trying to sound mad... LOLOL!

Then we got to do evacs through through the emergency exits... throw out the stashed ropes.. and climb down the wing and jump off... that was fun too!

One other field trip we had.. we were doing our 'official training' with the fire extinguishers... and they took us to a special grounds where they started real.. if tiny, fires. We were supposed to put them out with the fire extinguishers... only, after the 5th student had their turn... the extinguisher ran out of retardant *Squisy puts her hands to her face* and the other extinguishers were locked in a cabinet the instructor didn't have the key for.... so the rest of us were left to put out the fire with this other useless extinguisher that squirted a tiny stream of water... only the instructor would interceed and say "Thats enough, don't actually put the fire out, everyone else needs it" As if it were even possible to put the fire out with that thing

Then finally, it was my turn.. and the extinguisher was apparently empty of water *snort*... so the instructor told me to "Just pretend you're putting it out" and so I did.. and the other 10 students behind me did too. We were kind of snorting at our 'Official training' for fire extinguishing

Ps... I was terribly scared, Flare! Oh my! Oh no!

 

[LittleChickenLady]

This is way off topic, but I want to complain about it.
So.

Why the heck does my hair take over an hour to blow dry?!

Probably because I have more hair than a lion. Lol.
I absolutely hate it. I usually just let it air dry, but I have to go to work and put it in a ponytail.
Don't know about you guys, but I can't stand doing that when it's wet.
So far I've spent 40 minutes blow drying my hair, and it's only about half way dried.

I guess I'll just drive really fast with my windows down.

 

[SourRoses]

Awwww!

It's SOOOO pretty Danielle!

I know you don't want to hear that... but it is SOOOO pretty!

Ducky pajamas

I wish I had your hair... or your length of hair at least! I miss mine so much! *sniff*

You would miss yours if you didn't have it and you didn't look the same.. I think.

What about just drying the hair near your head and leave the ends damp/wet.. put it in your pony tail, and the end can dry whenever it likes?

When I had a perm in my hair.. though it wasn't quite that long... I would towel dry mine.. scrunching it up from the ends the way the hairdresser showed me. It was a little annoyingly damp.. but it would dry fairly soon thereafter. Do you use a towel for yours?

I know I couldn't for the life of me use a blow dryer on mine! Or it became a frizzled mess! Even with that silly brush they gave me.



You could put some DE in it! That might dry it, right?

Just trying to come up with other ideas here!

*Squishy cringes from the elbowing*

 

[LittleChickenLady]

Lol. Everyone loves my hair but me.
It's not nearly as long as it used to be either. I can't wait for it to get down to my butt (almost).

I towel dry it, twice, then I usually leave it alone.
Takes about three hours to dry itself.
If I don't put anything in it it gets really frizzy, but I get this oil sheen spray, like black women use in their hair, and spray my ends.
Makes the curls really pretty and shiney.

What's DE?..

 

[SourRoses]

You know.. the Diamecteous Earth (SP?

) stuff for the bug killing in chicken runs.

It kills bugs because it is super absorbent, what you find in those tiny packets in new purses and stuff... it dehydrates them to death.

So you could rub that stuff through your hair!!

It wouldn't look at all funny either.. I promise! *blinking innocently*

 

[SourRoses]

Oh yeah.. I did use oily stuff... many kinds of products actually...

Then I had oily frizzly messes!

It was impossible! I finally just scrunched it with the towel and left it. Then of course, I had to cut it all off because it was so fried. It was a long battle with me trying to pretend there wasn't straw coming out of my head!

 

[SourRoses]

Whatever happened to Joanne? Why did she abandon us? *sniff*

 

[SourRoses]

Am I the only one who gets soo sad looking at old photos?

The photos I cherish the most are of old horses... and old doggy friends and puppies. I just want to step through the pictures sometimes and bring back everyone I miss

And then I think.. well.. if that happened to this one, and I have to let them go... can't I have this adorable puppy, or that one, all that I wouldn't let myself keep at the time for various reasons? It just makes me

We had Rosie spayed a long time ago for her health... and I've *never* met a such distinct personalities as her and Dundees puppies. I miss them so!

Rosie is 12.. so shes getting up there. I think shes gonna be around for a good while, shes super healthy... but I want to get her cloned! *stomps feet and pouts* I think I AM going to find out what kind of samples of DNA or whatnot they need for that.. and have it kept on ice at some lab somewhere for when cloning pets becomes less expensive!

I just wish I could do the same with my Tilly doggy baby

Have I mentioned how much I miss her yet? Or my Fantasia mare.. she was so perfect.


Squishy stops crying now.....

 

[SourRoses]

I found some old pictures to share!!

Photos of me turn out terrible, I always am making faces, so I have very few... but here are some with my black hair from a few years ago. Note how distressingly short it is!

Please note also... Neither my hair nor my eyes are currently painted this color

Trying to figure out how on earth one accomplishes this texting nonsense...

My!... Hand!... Flying!... The!... Plane!

The right wing of said plane... please note that I was up all by myself.. and trying to take photos while looking forward and flying with my other hand

The Boise Snake River from the front window....

Could not, for the life of me, figure out exactly what this big hole in the ground was all about...

Slowing down (you can see the prop even) near Caldwell airport, a frequent destination...

From our camping trip previously written about... The pretty river next to our tent we had planned on fishing in...

From us driving all over in airstrips free courtesy car on said camping trip, trying to find a river we could actually get to for fishing in... Notice, if you will, just part of the frightening drop off.. which was a very high cliff...

Yet another river we could not get down to for fishing in.....

From the farm in North Carolina I used to work at....

Mom petting one of the foals, while I took photos, and my precious Tilly sat looking at them on the cart seat like she was a people.. in her usual manner....

Another...

Calypsia.. sweet mare I liked alot!

Are you here to bring me more hay??

Back in Boise again... a forgotten cute picture of a Rosie pup...

Can I come out dere wif dis pwease?

Rosie and Maybeline..... "Uhhh.. Are you going to give me that sometime soon, Mom?"

Puppies are soo tiring! Lets have a sun bake!

Maybeline left and Tilly right...