Reminiscing on interviews on assessment day

I remember this one, the group and one to one interviews for a couple of reasons. I remember the group interview because on the day of my assessment, the 12 of us struck up a decent rapport seeing that we were 12 strangers stuck in a room together (OK, we moved into three different rooms at different times) for a whole day with the vision of becoming a commercial pilot being the only thing that bound us together.  That helps when you have to sit through a group assessment together!  That and I was reunited with two of them more than a year later when I started ground school.  Another one had already passed ground school and was at the flying stage, while another had enrolled with another school and was also going into the physical flying training stage of this whole process.  It's nice to know that the others are also succeeding. For the one to one interview, I remember after the second one thinking, why didn't I get these questions in the first interview because I would have definitely known how to answer those.  And during the second interview, "are you seriously asking me that?"  If you're curious as to what kind of questions they may ask then just Google, 150 questions pilots are asked in interviews.   It feels like a century ago now since I opened that email to trembling hands.  Now that I have my uniform, and have been wearing it for a few months, I forget just how unqiue this path is, and how much people are not used to seeing "us".  Just the other day I was exiting the flat to my car to get to school.  In my uniform, a lady who had just exited the car and was standing on the pavement waiting for the passenger to get out, just continued to stare at me as I walked towards my car.  I actually had to stop walking and ask her, "are you ok, and do you need any help?"  To stop her from continuing to stare, only she continued to stare. Now I sit and look forward to the day of my exit interview from ground school, because that would mean that I've successfully completed stage 1 (if you like) and would be moving onto the physical flying stages of my training.  Until then I shall hold onto these great experiences so far and look forward to many more!