Huge Update

The internet has been causing lots of problems for us so I have not been able to blog for a while! So I have to backtrack to Saturday I think which was my Magic Kingdom theme park training. The training was really fun. They decided instead of lecturing us in a classroom we would go out and experience the park! They told us all of these really cool things. For example, Main Street USA which is the entrance to the Magic Kingdom slopes upward to slow people down as they come running into the park. When the park opens people come running down main street to be the first to ride their favorite ride. Also, since human nature is to go to the right, the entrance to Tomorrowland is wider than the other lands. Then as I mentioned before the park slopes downward on the way out to make it easier for tired guests to make it down Main Street to wherever they need to go. Throughout the day we heard tons of cool information like that. We also got to ride Haunted Mansion and Buzz Lightyear and it was lots of fun. At the end of the day we got our training schedule and our more specific assignments which included getting our costumes!

Sorry, no pictures yet but just wait until you see how awesome my costumes are! I am working in Adventureland, Pirates of the Carribean gift shop and also Glow (I will explain what this is later). For Adventureland I wear the costume they call pajamas. They are super comfy but a pretty loud print. They are supposed to look like Aladdin-esque. We call them our MC Hammer pants. Then I have a pirate costume which is pretty sweet. Finally I have glow, this includes the carts that sell the light up merchandise during fireworks and at night, also squeeze-breezes during the day. It is actually pretty cool because we will walk in the front of parades and get to watch the fireworks and stuff. Also, we will get lots of hours between our Adventureland shops and glow. The glow costume is white knickers and a blue and white striped blouse, with an optional white hat during the day. I am pretty excited about my location. Aladdin and Jasmine come and visit our shop, Agrabah's Bazaar so I will get to see them a lot which is going to be tons of fun.

After training a friend that I will be working with, her roommate and I went to Epcot and hung out there. It was pretty much pouring rain (like it does every day here) the whole time we were there, but I got a pretty sweet picture with Donald wearing a sombrero and drank maragaritas in Mexico and had a quiche in France. I am a lucky girl!

Yesterday, we had our first day of on-the-job training, which was basically a general overview of working in Adventureland training. Pretty basic stuff, but my trainer Deepa is really nice and we enjoyed our time with her. it was a very long day though and we were pretty exhausted by the end of the day. One thing we learned about was the Pirates League. Every kid should do it! It is a place where kids and parents can be transformed into pirates! It is so much fun and so cool! I highly recommend it! I was given my own pirate name: Constance Redgrave! Everybody who comes to the Pirates League gets a pirate name. If pirates, is not for you the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique is super cute where princesses come and get their hair done by a fairy godmother in training. The girls look so cute and I see them all over the park!

Today was another day of training, but at Disney University. We did some online tutorials that all cast members have to do and then we did register training. It was so interesting because they had a room full of training registers for us to practice on! So, we had simulations we had to do with partners and learning how to do things the Disney way. It is quite different than my work at Bath and Body Works.

What I am most excited for is Magical Moments. Disney is all about making Magical Moments for our guests and I can't wait to interact with the kids! We got lanyards with pins on them and if you have never been to Disney before pin trading is huge here! That one day of on the job training I got stopped by at least 10 people in the maybe hour and a half I was out there asking to see my pins and trading. It is great because it allows us to talk to the guests and the kids are so cute because they are constantly searching for that one pin that they want.

I have 2 more days of training and then I am ready to work in Adventureland. I will not be trained on Glow until September 9, so I have a bit of time before I have to worry about that. I also will be trained on stock room next week. Speaking of next week, I got my schedule and it is pretty crazy! I will be working Pirates Saturday-Friday for on average 7 hour shifts every day. Luckily, I have Thursday and Friday off this week and my friend and I already have plans to go to Animal Kingdom!

I had a pretty rough start at first making the transition here. I love my friends at school and at home so much that it was hard coming here and not having them all here! I miss them so much and it is hard to start over, but things are getting better and I have met some pretty cool people that I think are going to be my friends through this whole program. I knew that things would work out and it would take time, but I just hated feeling so lonely. I feel so much better now especially with working and finding some really great friends.

I love you all so much and I miss you all already! This is why you should all come down to visit! :)

Wow this was a long blog, but I hadn't written anything in a while so I figured I should. I promise pictures will be coming soon!