Smile!

First day in the classroom. The first 2 hour lecture was about the company and it's culture (big family - all equal), work ethic (smile!), how great the boss is, how the airline started and it's amazing growth, what the future will look like, how great the boss is, all the awards it won and how we should behave while wearing the uniform (smile!) and represent the company.

We were also handed a list of destinations and told to memorise it by the end of the week, airport names, time zone, currency and IATA codes included. I strongly question the reasoning behind learning some of the items by heart, but...

We were then paraded around the academy to shake the hand of everyone in the building, while smiling of course. Rather embarrassing for us and the groups of host... flight attendants we barged in on. The office staff seemed used to it.

The afternoon brought a session of Airbus Computer Based Torture explaining all the features of the cabin systems: doors, O2, lights, IFE, lavatories, etc.