Week 1
On the 15th November I moved up to Kidlington, this is where my adventure begins. We had arranged via a rather handy Facebook group to meet up the night before induction in the famous Black Horse pub. If you're studying at OAA then this place will be a regular spot for you, pretty cheap and cheerful and it's pretty comfortable in there. I think around 35 out of the 40 of my future classmates were there so we pretty much took over half of the pub, after a couple of hours most of us had comfortably meshed together and a few funny characters started coming out, I was already beginning to like the group. At 23:00 we all decided to be sensible and call it a night.
The next day 41 fresh faces rolled into the Academy, eagerly looking forward to the next 19 months. The day mainly consisted of collecting uniforms, bags, books ad filling out forms. It was a pretty good day getting to spend more time with my classmates and finding out about what was in store for us. It was quite fun getting.
That evening pretty much 95% of the class headed into Oxford, into a club called Lava. I must say it felt kind of nostalgic walking around in a student town again after 5 years of work, I guess walking around and seeing teenagers on the floor every 2 minutes was something I'd have to get used to again!
The weekend was great, turns out we have a few unique characters in the group and the alcohol seemed to help us all open up on Friday and Saturday night! And so began the our long journey towards becoming first officers.
