XL airways
Planning to travel again anytime soon? If you wind up in London and you're hoping to go anywhere else in Europe from there, can you please let me know if you use XL Airways? I know they have deals to places in Spain and Italy and Ireland, probably quite a few others also. I am interested in knowing all about their arrangements from someone who has used them. I am hoping to spend a month traveling and I am not sure if XL Airways is considered a private charter airlines or just a commercial airline with smaller aircraft. It wouldn't matter so much as long as the service is good. You know, I hate it when you travel on one of the larger airlines and the flight attendants don't seem to be very concerned about the actual comfort of the passengers. It sometimes feels like 'OK. Just take your seat and don't get out of it and I'll toss you a bag of peanuts when I get through going to the bathroom'. I know that the responsibility of a flight attendant is a very important one and they are not just waitresses in the air, but some of them have forgotten that WE are the customer and those tickets don't come cheap either. I used to believe it only cost about 15% more to go first class but I don't know what kind of medication I was on at that time. It's probably more like 150% more expensive these days. I'd like to be able to fly from country to country in a setting that seemed more personal and that didn't just throw you a bag of peanuts like you were just another elephant. I'd like to have a little leg room, some attendants that have a little information about your chosen destination and beyond and someone to make me feel like they gave a hoot. Traveling and dealing with time differences and using caution about the local foods and drinks and managing to make your way through the languages and the customs and taboos of the areas is stressful enough. We are all just human beings, after all. And sometimes dealing with the differences of the area is what makes the trip interesting and fun and makes you want to do more traveling. But it would be great if the actual transportation was fast and friendly and efficient. I hope you will have a great time on your next trip.
Posted on Saturday, May 03, 2008 @ 9:31 PM by Susan
Drug addiction
In my spare moments today between studying for all four of my finals next week and working my but off at the restaurant, I have been looking in to my fall schedule just for fun. My schedule is looking like it is going to be pretty fun and looking at it now makes it seem even more interesting since all I see are the topics and descriptions on the front page of the web site. All of my classes next semester are going to be pretty hard and they all fall within the requirements of my major. I know that it is a bit risky to take all of your serious classes at once for fear of missing something important because you had so much to do all at once when you were studying it. I think of all of my classes next semester I am most exciting for the introduction to rehabilitation counseling. Basically it is an overview of how to work with people with drug addiction and alcoholism. I am excited because this is exactly the area in which I want to work when I get out of college. I fell in love with the field, it sounds crazy I know, when I did a summer job experience shadowing a counselor at a prison. He did the one on one counseling with all of the inmates suffering from meth addiction and various types of opiate addiction. He ran the whole range of counseling activities and it was great for me at such an early stage in my education to see someone as professional and successful as he working within a hostile and volatile environment. I was really inspired then and there to go in to this line of work. That is why I am sitting here getting all jittery about a course on drug and alcohol counseling while finals are looming over my head. Sometimes I look at moments I have like these and I think that the more education you get the crazier you actually get. But maybe that's just me I really don't know what is correct at this point in the semester except what I have been told for the past four months.
Posted on Saturday, May 03, 2008 @ 8:58 PM by Susan