Interview, Service Fanatic, Audition, etc.

As usual, I have a TON of things going on! First of all, I had a phone interview yesterday morning for Professional Internships with Disney that are only available to College Program alumni. It went OK... I'm not getting my hopes up for anything thought. I applied for a few event planning ones as well as a couple engineering ones, so we shall see!

Yesterday, my manager was walking around Soarin' checking things out and he noticed what a great job we were doing, so we all got Service Fanatic cards! I'm SO excited to get my first piece of recognition here at Disney. It only took a month :-D

The last thing I will mention is that the extension audition for people currently in the college program who would like to extend into entertainment positions is Wednesday! I had to trade some shifts to get it off, but I have it off and I am ready to go! I would LOVE LOVE LOVE the opportunity to get into entertainment with the Walt Disney Company. We shall see!

P.S. Alice in Wonderland premieres Thursday night at midnight, and we are all going to see it in IMAX 3D!!!! Yay! Can't wait :-D

Our House... In the Middle of the Street

Work + Fun = WDWCP

I picked up my first opening shift at Soarin' yesterday. It was a complete disaster, many things happening at a ride that usually never has problems... Anyway, I've been trying to get all of my work done and everything so I could go out and play in the parks, because I haven't in a while and I hadn't been to Hollywood Studios at all since beginning the program a few weeks ago.

So, this morning Mike, Rob, Karl, Grant, Sarah, and Liza all went to Typhoon Lagoon! (We had to go some time between now and Feb 27 or we'd have to pay) Today was the best day to go because the high was about 73 degrees. Unfortunately, when we got there it was only about 65 degrees (which is a little chilly, even for a Rhode Islander). But, there were no lines, we got right on everything really fast, and the water was HEATED! It was such a great time. We went on every attraction in the park! And we were done by about 2:30pm so we had time to go to another park. Since I hadn't been to DHS yet, that's where we went! We got some great pictures with some characters and we learned how to draw Donald Duck!

All-in-all, it was a great day.

My First Extra Hours Shift

So, the other day I was at Soarin' and they asked me to go home early so I said yes realizing that I had a big exam the next day that I should be studying for. I went on the HUB waiting to clock out when I noticed an extra shift was available for that night with no training required. I decided to pick up the shift and I had a great time! It was at the Magic Kingdom, which was a nice change of scenery, doing parade crowd control. We had to do activities with kids like playing "Duck, Duck Donald" and "Red Light Green Light" and "Mickey Says". The only thing that was not great was the fact that it was near freezing. Where am I again? Oh that's right, I'm in Florida. Why is it so cold?!?! It's starting to warm up again finally though. A few of my friends and I plan on going to Typhoon Lagoon on Saturday (because it's finally going to reach the 70s).

Still having a great time! Have a magical day, everyone :-)

The Past Few Days

I have been SO busy! I have been in and out of the parks and battling with my online classes. Yesterday was Mike and my 3rd Anniversary. It was cute. Mike has been sick the past few days and I took him to the doctor today. He has sinusitus and acute bronchitis. I fortunately haven't gotten sick yet but most of his roommates have the same thing. So, since we had to work opposite times on Valentine's Day we had our date on Saturday instead since we both had the day off. We went to the Wedding Pavillion and decided to get married there. It is SO beautiful. Later we went to dinner at Chef Mickey's (see pictures below) and we FINALLY did Characters in Flight!!! It was AMAZING. Highly recommended to EVERYONE.

Here are some pictures:







































Where Mike Proposed

Work, Work, Work!

So, I have been pretty busy these past few days. After I was pinned (finished training), I had 2 days off!

Wednesday, I basically stayed in all day doing homework for my Women's Studies class (yuck) and watched a couple movies with Mike and his roommates.

Thursday a lot of my friends had the day off so after I whipped up some Mickey Pancakes, we decided to go to the parks! Mike's roommate Phil had to do an assignment for his world music class so he needed to go to EPCOT, so we started there! We took pictures with Daisy and Stitch and Chip and Dale, then we went on Test Track and rode Segways!

(I want one so bad!) Afterward we were starving so we went to the Electric Umbrella, where Mike's roommate Scott works! It was his 20th birthday also and we made sure that everyone knew it, lol. So, we ate there and then went to Magic Kingdom!

At Magic Kingdom, we did the Monster's Inc Laugh Factory and Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin (I usually win that game, but Mike beat me this time!) We went to get Fast Passes for Space Mountain and went over to the Haunted Mansion, but were interrupted by the Street Party Parade which was cute. Phil got on Rob's shoulders and started dancing it was crazy lol.

Then we went on Haunted Mansion and it broke down about 3 times while we were on it :-/ Oh well it was still fun. Once we got out it was dark and Phil tried to show me up hula hooping (but couldn't, obviously :-P) Rob, Phil and Kim (my roommate) watched to SpectroMagic Parade and Mike and I went to the Country Bear Jamboree (we were 2 of 5 people in the theater!).

After that, when the parade ended we went to Pirates of the Caribbean and had absolutely no wait! After that, Kim, Phil, and Mike tried to run to Space Mountain to use our Fast Passes, but they didn't make it in time, so we watched the fireworks.

Once we got home, we made plans to take Scott out for his birthday and that was a good time :-)

Friday, I didn't have to work until 4, so we went to Animal Kingdom! We didn't get there until about 2, so we only had time to ride Expedition Everest (it was so worth it).

Then I had to drive Claudia and Scott with me to EPCOT to go to work :-( We got SO lost. Once I finally got there, I still had to change into my costume and I didn't have time to pick up rain gear or to wait for the bus so I ran through future world in the pouring rain and got absolutely drenched. However, if I had waited even a few more seconds, I would have been late and would have received a half point so it was worth it in the end. That was my first day working on my own :-D

Yesterday, I did homework in the morning and went to work at night. It was my first time closing without a trainer with me and it wasn't too bad. When I got home, everyone had gone to the last night time shuttle launch ever in the US which really upset me because I wanted to go but oh well. They didn't get home until really early this morning, so I would have been absolutely dead if I had gone. Unfortunately, Mike and Kim's alarms didn't work this morning so they were both late for work. They were both pretty stressed about it, but I'm sure things will work out for them.

And now, I must do my homework. Ug

Training Complete!

I officially passed my assessment and I am one of the newest members of the Soarin' Team at EPCOT!

I have been pretty busy, having trouble finding time to clean and enjoy myself. Fortunately, I haven't gotten too far behind on my online classes (yet).

Tonight, all of my roommates are having dinner with all of Mike's roommates. We all get along so well, it's great. I have been hearing a lot about so many other apartments with drama and I feel so lucky to be with great people.

I love it down here!

Hello February!

So, tomorrow is my assessment and then I have my first two days off!!! I'll let everyone know how it goes!