Last night, I obviously couldn’t sleep. Around 10pm, I started to have an emotional freak out about doing this IOE. Super nervous about doing the safety demo and serving drinks. We covered most of the other stuff during training, but we hardly touched on the service part. I kept having visions on tripping and spilling drinks on people. They also did a pretty good job of scaring us in training - I am picturing lots of drunk, aggressive people on the flights. Walking into the crew lounge, I thought I was going to have a panic attack.
My IOE coach was great. I arrived at the Orlando (MCO) crew lounge about 2 hours before the flight took off for San Jose, Costa Rica. My IOE coach and I went over some information; we met with the other crew members on our flight and then headed to the gate. Both of the other FA’s were really nice. I was the F3 on an A320.
On the way to CR, Alex told me exactly what I needed to do and corrected anything I did wrong. He commented a few times that I seemed really uncomfortable and during my safety demo, told me to smile. About halfway through, I realized I was making a horrible grimmace face. Oops.
Overall, it was simpler than I thought it would be and the other flight attendants helped me with service. They let me make some of the PA's too, which was fun (#dork).
The way back to Orlando counted as my actual exam. Alex was not allowed to answer any questions or provide help/feedback. However, the other flight attendants were fair game, so when I had questions, I went up to ask them. Only one person started to get angry with me for being so slow with my drink service, but when I told him it was my very first flight, he instantly became a sweetheart. I think I'm going to use that to my advantage for a while "I'm sorry, I'm new".
Overall, it went well and I passed. Yay!
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