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Damn i sound cool now. Last year i thought being a pilot would be so awesome, then up until today i thought this is really boring and hard. BUT TODAY WOOHOO ... I LIKE! :)

Ive kind of been stressing cause the stuff we are covering atleast about actual flying is very in depth, shit hard, and the instructors dont seem very understanding to those of us with minimal experience, they keep going off track and talking about their "aero" training (which apparently refers to aerobatics first time i thought wtf its aviation isnt everything aero training?) or instrument specifications. Yeah so i thought i dont really want to be like one of these nerdy techy guys. And Everyone in my class is either

• a hardcore type guy who'll brag about how much he can bench press and how souped up his v8 is, or
• a private school dh who's daddy has no problem paying the $60,000 flying fees cause itll make his little boy/girl happy and they might just enjoy it enough to go against the odds and actually work for a living. For most of them this is their 3rd attempt at a course and they already have their PPL or
• asian exchange students. (i know i didnt get to know many of these demographic in high school but they are actually quite cool in comparison to the others types).

so yeah i dont really fit in. AAAAAAW everyone feel sorry for me.

And to make me even more unsure, The lectures we have at moorabbin are SHIT HARD and 4.5 hr long with like a 5min break if we are lucky. I wrote 10 pages of NOTES, not copying slabs thats like my short hand and small pics. OH and we have uniform, blue pants, white shirt, blue tie, and we're meant to get a bomber jacket soon. Which all just looked crap... until TODAY. I got two of those shoulder flap things(thats what i asked for when i went to get them) and now my life seems so much happier. Birds have never chirped so sweetly, the sun has never ... anyway they make me look a lot cooler. So anyway after lecture today i had to go into city to run an errand and couldnt go home to change which is what i would have done were i not so proud of my new proffessional look. So i got off the train and walked up to collins st to get some aviation books. Then firstly this little guy came up to me and asked me if i was a pilot, and i couldnt be bothered explaining "well im actually a pilot in training.." so i said "yes" which was probably a good thing considering in my experience kids that age usually bite when they feel bored. And when i said yes he was like "WOW mummy mummy Vroooooooom *arms out soaring like a plane*" which yeah made me laugh a bit. Anyway i got to the bookshop and then i met two guys i know. so we were talking and then these two girls(one was 17 and the other 18 both very nice looking) came up and started talking to me. My mates were trying to stay in the conversation cause .. well hey who wouldnt.. anyway i got asked out to have coffee before peopel read this and think im a crap boyfriend ofcourse i said "nah i dont think so you know coffee is a disgusting drug that can cause problems from diarreah to yellowtinted teeth." oh and "and i dont think my girlfriend would like that". This is the second time ive been hit on this week, had a drunk 30yo woman ask me what starsign i was at work and then told me she just wanted me to stand there so she could look at me. That wasnt as fun. I think from now on all i am ever gonna wear is my pilot uniform cause hey life seems so much more interesting when you are SEXY! Which is a welcome change since i think i look like a bear man cause my hair is at an awkward length where i cant cut it cause itll just take even longer to get it to an ok length. So for now ill just remain bear man devoted to scaring my fellow class mates as they cower at the idea of me eating up their precious study material. Which i am somehow doing, i have already stolen someones textbook and their flight computer(which isnt a computer at all! its just two metal rulers and a spinning disk screwed together). Anyway im glad my 'shoulder flap things' have given me the second wind i needed to keep going (3 days into my 4 year degree OH MY GOD WHAT AM I DOING!!!). Oh and this is a discussion topic i want to know if anyone else was feeling like this is the biggest mistake of their lives. I cant be the only one, besides i know i want to do this, im not one of those, oh well im happy with my fourth preference people. if your lectures have been anything like my swinburne lectures then i doubt you are finding it as hard cause all my swinburne classes are REALLY EASY. I did my maths homework in a minute before packing up my books and leaving class, both physics and maths are really simple.