Baaack from work

Now that I've had over twelve hours to calm down after seeing the infamous YWBC status, I'm here to write about my thoughts about today.

So I woke up, came downstairs, made myself a beautiful cup of coffee and decided on a whim to check my Emirates account, ready to see AIP. As the page was loading I was telling myself "nah, not today. it won't be today. i doubt it'll change at all!" secretly hoping that it would. But I didn't want to get my hopes up. So the page loaded and I thought I'd wrote my password incorrectly (autocorrect is a pain in the arse on my phone) but then I saw that little red sentence above the failed log in page. My dad was sitting on the opposite side of the room having breakfast.

"Oooh!" I said, my eyes lighting up...
"Ooooooooooooooooooooo!!!"
my dad looked at me - half a bacon sandwich hanging out of his mouth.
"What?" he asked.
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Guess what!" as I beamed...
"You haven't got the job have you?!"
"I GOT THE JOB! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH"

So I promptly updated my Facebook status when I read it (as you do - the world of facebook needs to know!). Half of my reason of spreading the word on FB was to tell my friends my news and the other half was to act as a massive one finger salute to all of the people who I don't get on with very much. Weeeyyy.

So as I shoved YouTube videos in my dad's face of what it's like to be Crew for EK I tried getting ready for work. I was late... only by like a minute though! And then I got there and the bloody metal detector went crazy because I had a billion hair clips in my hair keeping my bun in place, so it made me even more late as I had to get searched by my colleague!

Anyway I got on shift and immediately I had loads of people from work congratulating me and telling me well done. I thought "wow, word travels fast from a simple facebook post!" anddddddd my manager's congratulated me. I literally went "you weren't supposed to find out..." as I didn't know if they'd get annoyed at me or not but I'm only on a seasonal contract anyway so it's not as if I'm quitting before I start EK - my contract will have finished by the time I move to Dubz. The BIG manager doesn't know yet... I think. But no doubt she will before long.

Anyhow, when the EK crew came through the search area I immediately told them I had received YWBC and they (about 15 of them) circled me and started squealing with excitement and saying congratulations haha. Bless them. I had the rest of the day to reflect on what my life is about to be like and I've shed a bit of a pathetic tear today about it as well - purely because this time two months ago I wasn't even gonna bother applying for the job because of the way things were at home - I'm so pleased I thought "screw it we'll see what happens!" because everything has worked out amazingly. How exciting! Now I just need the Golden Call to tell me when I'll be leaving this horrible little town!

YOU WILL BE CONTACTED!

GUYS. GUYS. GUYS.

Before I go to work in urrrrrrrrr one hour's time (I'm still in my PJ's with no hair or make-up done) I must tell you I checked my status today and it saidddddd

WHAT? WHAT'S THAT?! YWBC! good lord!

quick update which ill finish after work. dont wanna get fired for being late! ciao! xx

What A Co-Ink-I-Dink

My prayers have been answered after last night's rant! Lol! Finally on Approval In Progress - how exciting! Another girl I had FI with has had hers changed to AIP too. I checked this morning during the second break of my shift and it said Under Review :( then I checked it again on my fourth break and it had changed! Fistpump! :)


And now the long wait begins to see if I get those famous red letters... don't know if I'm more nervous now than before?! Eeek, how exciting! Fingers crossed xx

Feeling a little drained.

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Please change. Please.

I'm feeling pretty down about this now. Nobody from my FI group has heard back from EK yet which is always a positive since we're all in it together but it's incredibly stressful. I go on various forums on t'internet and the majority of people get their AIP status and GC within a month - even those who have had their FI after we did have heard something back. I know they say 4 - 6 weeks and it'll be our fourth week in two days' time, but it's so easy to lose hope when you read those two words every time you log on to the EK website.

I guess I just want this so badly, and knowing that I could possibly see "Not Shortlisted" after all this time worrying and stressful. Dreaming of this incredible future I could have and all of the unimaginable things I could see and do... if I didn't get this opportunity it would be absolutely heart wrenching. It's frustrating just telling people that I haven't heard anything back yet when they ask me - y'know? Surely it's obvious that if I knew something - I'd tell everyone - anyone - who'd listen.

I just need out of this town. Out of this country. There is nothing for my generation anymore. Get a low paying crappy job, get a council house, pop a few kids out and continue to live not a life - but an existence, for the rest of your time. I don't want that; I know I have so much to offer the world and the world has a hell of a lot to show me. I'm purposely avoiding working on the xray where the EK Crew come through so I don't have to speak to them or see how beautiful they all look as they go through the airport as it only serves to remind me that I very well may not even achieve the dream.

Oh how I'd love to tell people "I'm going to Dubai!" or "I live in Dubai", "I work for Emirates" "I'm Cabin Crew" "I work on the A380" - how amazing would that be? But right now I'm stuck in a crappy little mining town full of people on welfare/benefits and I don't want to be sucked in to the ever expanding black hole of wasted young talent as time goes on. I just needed to get this rant off my chest.

Going out of my mind!

I keep refreshing the applicant page to check for any changes in status! I saw a girl who was passing through the airport and funnily enough she was at FI too. She said she hadn't heard anything, and another girl I was with hasn't heard anything back either - so that's a bit reassuring (if not stressful) for all of us!

This is me ^

xx

Refresh refresh refresh!

It's only been two days since my interview and I keep checking my application status.

Get a grip lass!