AIR NATION: 2012

TELEVISION SERIE BASE MOSTLY ON TRUE STORIES

These pictures were taken in 1992 just a little bit after the end of the gulf war. There was still one fire to extinguish when we landed there. I didn't put the pictures in order for you new readers to read the book.
The pictures were taken in the middle east and they are priceless as I could have been kill to take them.

Later on, I will add up more pictures keep checking.
tks

Les photos ont été prises il y a de ça quelques années 1992 juste après la guerre du golf au Moyen-Orient.
J'ai pris ma caméra et photographiés en cachette. Je ne les ai pas mises en ordre mais si vous lisez le livre ça vous en dira plus.

Alors pour commencer en tant que membre d'équipage nous devons suivre un cours.
Chaque compagnie aérienne a son propre cours mais il doit etre conforme avec les lois et réglements émis par le ministère des transports.

Oxygen demonstration

Ici on se pratique pour la démonstration d'oxygène

Danielle, my sister join me in this wonderful adventure

One of our haj flight with Moroccan passengers
Everyone was wearing white

One of our haj flight with Moroccan passengers
Everyone was wearing white

There hands were covered with henna

Leurs mains étaient couvertes de henna

Indian market

Cooley girl that carries your grocery while at the market

Beautiful Indian women

Sharing a meal with my friend Francois and the vendor we had bought some great silver jewelry and as
custom the man invited us to share his meal.

Albilad Hotel private beach the one dancing in black was a famous Iraqi speakarine a good friend of mine she escape with her family to Saudi during the war she was always there with her little brother than she move to L.A.. lost track of her.
around crew members and some prince

I went fishing in Kuwait with a prince some crew members and the Kuwaitis police
got a white shark i got it myself with some help at the end of the police because
over there we fish with our bare end no moulinet nothing it was hurting me because the shark was struggling so much

having fun in the tent

when i got lost in the alkali souk in Cairo,Egypt

Sponge anyone ?

Wo! We had venture too much off the path and ended up at the Iraq borders

Kuwaiti museum

we decided to venture out the museum to check out the artillery but

Giza pyramid in Cairo

this is the lady who sold me my first abbaya the one on the left on the top of the pile.

shoe shine in the AL Kalila bazaar in Cairo, Egypt

highway to hell in Kuwait they had just clean up the road so we could go by
the smell of death was very strong
over 500,000 people die trying to cross over but

these are the 2 guys who save my life 2 UN

too bad the picture is not too good but you could see the guy on the left had his knife in his mouth

Never been in a war zone before

horror

live munition

so much it was very dangerous to walk around

and this is on what I almost step if it wasn't for the UN to stop me from walking further
I would have been dead

Inside a tank at the Kuwait museum of war it was hot like hell but we were hiding from the security because i don't think we were aloud to go in the back room outside of the museum we waited for the guard to go away
what amazed me was they used Russian tank

I was inside a real tank I don't know how could men, a few men, with big nuclear suit on to protect themselves in the middle of the night fighting

Smoking chicha with a vendor at the Kuwaiti souk. They always invite you for tea and smoke chicha with them but when i sat down to smoke with him you know to be nice i realised only after the man had missing teeth

Robert who is David in the book smoking shisha at the hotel in Kuwait

first relic of war

Right in the middle of the lobby at the Holiday inn hotel the head quarter of the Iraqi in Kuwait
i decided to lounge like a princess for the photo.
I than suddenly realise up above all the windows had bullet in it
the wall was still full of holes cause by bullets

my first night at the souk. I was so excited about it.

inside the tent in Ryad all we could do is smoke shisha and dance belly dancing oh yeah and play bowling with an abbaya.

Me and my friend in a tent

museum of war Kuwait

Me and Robert testing the artillery

Never saw so many tanks in my life at the museum of war
some US tanks, Russian tanks, unbelievable!

riding in the middle of the desert with a wild horse this was against the law

the prince took Josee for a walk as she didn't know how to ride

Testing the munitions oups
They are all good to explode

I ask my sister Josey to draw me a uniform

The cover of my book in french

smoking shisha in Ryad Saudi Arabia

pascal and victor doing water servcie i didnt put pascal in my book just victor

real test in the swimming pool for a ditching we had to put on life vest and put up a raft

fuel dumping live i was very happy to take that picture

Jétais vraiment fière d'avoir pris cette photo

this is where we went for our party
yes in that bombed building

dancing with friends and princes but than

too bad the picture is not too good its me riding it actually look like a sand storm iii

this is our savior the taxi driver who finally we catch after walking miles and miles away to go back to the hotel he was a bit weird but he got us out of trouble

one of many carcass the camel dead Camel

sand storm we were full of mud and than we saw this munition standing there and we realise we could blow up instantly

fishing with the prince and crew members Nathalie Chantal...

He had just sold his horse $1,000,000 both of them were crying the man and the horse. You could eat on the floor of this stable it was so clean.

Me Sam from Lebanon and Chantal who is Chanel in the book.

Next to me was sitting the next of throne of Syria Bader

David in Paris

Indian market

after a all nighter we would hang out at the pool instead of sleeping in our room

Me at the market in Kuwait

Here hiding for the mosk celebration to end. Smoking was prohibited there, we could have been arrested, kill or stone...dead. Jeddah.

Happy, I had just finish writing a letter to the gang in Montreal and this is how the show all started well kind of .

The interest everyone had from what we were doing around the world.

I came back, the company went bankrupt so while I stayed at my parents, sleeping on the floor, thinking of my next move, I couldn't stand the TV program my parents were watching, so I decided to make my own stories from my life.

A friend give me a computer, lost hundreds of pages while learning how to do that than found a job and went teaching in Korea but nuclear war was not my cup of tea, I came back found a job with another Airline. I spoke enough Korean to get myself a great job. While I was staying in Toronto, Radio-Canada were very interested to produce my script but at this time they had no money to produce this kind of show.

In 1995 it was not to good for budget this kind of script. They told me to see a private producer.

So I went. A friend of a friend knew someone in the field than after our first meeting they told me to make it more for a television series. It will bring more money. So, I did; shrink everything for 9 show and went back to meet with the producers. They presented me someone with experience to write with me. While the producer went to get some cappuccino, the very popular writer in Montreal, with an ugly beard and an old hat, told me if I didn't like it there, we could go somewhere else.

I was shock. How back stabbing is that? Right away, I knew this guy was trouble. He would do the same with me for sure afterwards. So, when the producer ask me what I taught about him, I told him: I was not interested. So, he ask me to find someone else; I did. An English writer in Toronto, very popular at this time with a law production but the Montreal producer didn't want to hear about an English writer.

Months went by and suddenly, I heard they were doing the show without me. I went to see a friend in this domain, he told me: this is one of the biggest box in Montreal, I can not go against them and it will cost you lots of money to fight back.

I went back home and wrote the book. Screw you all Avanti company and I publish my book before anything happen.

Meanwhile, there was the agent of Jim Carey who was interested to receive a copy of 2 episodes, so I drop in at his house in LA and give him my script but at this time Jim's career was rising so they had no time for me. I had no agent either.

On my reserve days, as a flight attendant, I spend my entire energy on writing the book so no one could steel my rights, my ideas and to forget the French guy I was supposed to married. He told me his wife was dead but she wasn't. Needless to say, I needed to forget my love life.

I published the book myself. Sold it, in a few book stores but getting my money was even worst. The book stores will wait for me to call them to get my money.

I made one big mistake with Renaud Bray who wanted my book but when they send my check they had double the price of the book and I didn't like that one bit. They didn't ask me about rising the price of the book. So I got out. I went on selling my book just by talking to one another. I don't call myself a writer. I am a story teller, so, this is why I didn't want to sell it that much money. Silly me.

The readers of my book all wanted to read the second tome.

I said yes why not. I could write for ever....

The book is done in French. and translated it in English to the best of my knowledge. I can not afford a translator remember, I am a flight attendant!

Tome 2 is even better than tome one but it is sitting on a shelve somewhere; very sad indeeed.

Meanwhile, when I join this other airline, I did bought a house, I kind of turn the page but if only you knew what happened with this house your hair will rise up on your head,

Its been 9 years of hell. Living without water. I even had a boyfriend who got kidnap. Nothing works on the love side at all ,so I spend my time writing.

I am almost finishing my house chapter but the chapter I cheeriest is the most is

Air Nation

I was so furious when the other airline show came out it was another big farce of this great job we do but what can I say, this is how people perceived us unfortunately:It's sad.

My television show had a purpose:

To unite people around the world by learning, meeting and talking to people of different genders, religion and backgrounds.

Maybe one day, someone will come across these pictures and will see the potential, if not, my stories will be left to those interested to read them.

Yes, I'm french Canadian. I choose to write in English as it is a universal second language to reach out as much people as possible.

Air nation a free ticket around the world

A people story with it's up and down.