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PREVIEW OF CHAPTER 2 - SO YOU WANT TO FLY (FIRST DRAFT-UNEDITED)

Trolley dolly, Cart tart, Galley bitch doesn't exactly fit the description of the original glamorous title of 'Stewardess'. Predominantly now a female role, the history books tell us that a male by the name of Heinrich Kubis was the first steward, who began working solo on the smaller Zeppelin Airships in 1912. Later on, Kubis was a crew member of the well known larger Zeppelin Airship called the 'Hindenburg'. You may remember hearing of the Hindenburg Disaster, when in 1937 it caught fire and of the 97 people on board, 35 died. Interestingly, history also states that there were other steward's on board the HB and one of these a female by the name of Emilie Imhoff, who must have been the first 'stewardess'. Other research shows that a 25year old lady by the name of Ellen Church, a registered nurse, was the first 'Stewardess' hired by United Airlines in 1930........

PREVIEW OF CHAPTER ONE - MY JOURNEY TO THE SKY (UNEDITED-FIRST DRAFT ONLY)

With a little wisdom and hindsight we can look back on our lives to the many series of events that took place, that when put together, created chapters of our life story. Some of which made no sense at all at the time. From the sweet and gentle years of my childhood to the pain and lonliness of.......(SORRY THIS PART RESERVED FOR BOOK ONLY) which slowly began taking my life from me as a young teenage girl. The many heartaches and challenges that I was to face would finally bring me to a place of understanding who I am. It's my belief that we are given things in our lives as we are able to handle them. At age 44, in the year 2003, a chance meeting took place with a man on a local ferry ride across the bay off Townsville. The words exchanged on that day were to change my life course forever and this is how I was granted my childhood dream of becoming a Flight Attendant,which finally came true.......This is my story

Opening Of My Blog

Looking forward to receiving your comments and stories . Will shortly post some samples from first couple of chapters.