Smoke Alarm

Yesterday I set off the smoke alarm, dinner turned out good though!

Autograph

So i'm awful at updating so I'm going to try and post something fun each day.


Yesterday, after training we were leaving the park and this little girl with her autograph book came up to us and asked us to sign it because she didn't get enough princesses. <3

Traditions

Traditions.

We had to be at the bus stop at..  6.15.  AM!!  Which would usually be awful, except that I keep waking up super early, making it not that bad.  Except that it was a super long day.  They first went through this ridiculously boring e-learning module about ethics and the like which I'm sure I've done a few times before in other jobs I've worked.  

Once that was over with, the fun-er stuff began!  We were all in groups of five and someone had to be the leader, that person ended up being me!  So I got this Donald Duck Figurine, which was cool, cus I really didn't do anything.   We watched a few videos, talked about a bit of stuff, then went on a tour of the underground of magic kingdom.  If you didn't know Magic Kingdom (actually all the Walt Disney Parks) are built above ground, and below them they have these things called utilidoors, where cast members get to their location, as well as a way to transport stock.  Fun fact, they never empty the bins at Disney, the bins are all connected to a pipe system which the rubbish falls to.  We aren't allowed to take photos, so you can just make something up in your mind.

After our tour we went back to our class, where Mickey arrived with our Name Tags!  Yayy.  So with our name tags received, we were all set.  We also got our Blue ID's which get us into the park for free.

SOOO, A few of us went to Magic Kingdom that afternoon and rode Splash Mountain and the Haunted Mansion.

We didn't stay too long because we all started training bright and early the next morning, and will continue in my case for the next 6 days to have training from 8.30 - 5pm which requires a 7.22am bus.  Fun.

Although a couple of us went to CiCi's pizza which has all you can eat desert, pizza, pasta and salad for $6.   So pretty amazing.  

Anyway, I'm falling behind on this blog, but hopefully tomorrow I'll get a chance to update you all on training!  Yayy.

Work Locations and Schedules

This blog is all over the place but I guess the main thing is I'm updating.

So,

Today we had a whole lot of information sessions which were to fill out applications for social security numbers, taxes and other stuff.  Considering how dull it is Disney do a pretty good job of making it at least interesting.

After that my roomates wanted to go to Publix and get some groceries, it's about a twenty minute walk from our complexes but you don't have to rely on buses and the food looks a much better quality.  It is definitely pricier than walmart though.  I'm definitely going to need to get one of those grandma trolleys, the club central bingo ladies swore by them and I totally see why.

Which brought us to the afternoon where we handed in all our paperwork and got given our work locations!!!  Yayyy!!!  I'm vacation planning in Magic Kingdom or I guess the ticket and transport Centre. (TTC for those in the know)   AND my training starts THURSDAY!  The day after tomorrow, and tomorrow is traditions with a 6.30 bus call.   And then my first lot of training is 6 days straight 8.30am to 5pm, which means being at the bus stop by 7.10.   So I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to eat and wash clothes let alone visit a park.

Definitely going to miss coming home to a home/hot cooked meal!

On the plus side I'm still jet lagged so keep waking up super early!

Apartments and Rules

So i've finally gotten around to photos of the apartment!






We got to put in apartment preferences about a week or so before we checked in, they kind of went off them.  I was placed in Patterson Court, which was my second choice.  It's pretty good, although we have to walk to the Chatham bus stop and I need to vacume the carpet.











Our apartments two bedrooms on the third floor.  I have done so much walking and climbing in the last few days I don't think my legs are ever going to feel the same.








This is my bedroom, there's only three of us in the apartment at the moment while we wait for someone else.  So I get my own room and bathroom!  I should probably enjoy it while I can.











Pin Board!


Dresser!


I'll post the rest of the apartment laters :)

PEOPLE ARE REALLY NICE

I forgot to mention yesterday in my sleep induced blog, how nice everyone is.

My housemates are super nice, which is good, I don't think we will have any drastic issues, and yesterday when I was walking from the bus stop to my apartment a super nice girl called Cecilia came up to me and helped me, basically saved my life.

Ohh and the guy who dropped all our bags around, carried my overweight suitcase up three flights of stairs like it was no big deal. Also saved my life.

Just thought this deserved a mention

Check In!!

Finally!

I'm officially at Disney.

I woke up again super early, and just tried to amuse myself until 10.30 where a few of us caught a cab over to Vista Way for Check in.

It was super quick, we dropped our bags down, got our names checked off, lined up in a line of about eight, got our passport/visa clearance done and got given our welcome packs and apartment keys,

I'm in Patterson Court, a 2 bedroom on the third floor. So I have two other room mates from Australia, they both know each other, are 22 and are super nice which is a relief! haha. We are still waiting for my actual roomate, I just hope she isn't crazy. It has been kind of nice though having today to get organised by myself. I'm going to take photos tomorrow, so I'll upload a few.

We went to walmart to get a few more essentials, but we will definitely have to go back to get some more tomorrow.

We get tomorrow off, and on Monday we start having housing meetings, and then on Tuesday we have traditions. Exciting stuff!

Walmart and Cell Phones

In my attempt to not fall behind in this whole blogging thing ill do a quick post.

So, today started with breakfast at Applebees, where I met a few of the Disney girls, jasmine, Kate and Janine. The juice was gigantic. Like huge.

Following the gigantic juice myself and a few others went to walmart. It was so exciting, I have pics to prove it. Then we came back to the hotel where we chilled in janines room and waited for a few more people to surface, arrive and went to downtown Disney! It was hot! Super hot! It still is hot. We had lunch at the rainforest cafe thing, they split bills every each way. Quite cool. Following that after much deliberation we went to Florida mall and I got my american sim! It's extremely complicated getting sim cards because America runs on a CDMA network that doesn't use them, only a few networks do.

After that we came back to the hotel, and I crashed. /end blog

I made it!

Apologies, this entry is going to be All over the place, half of it was writtenon the plane, a third after no sleep for thirty plus hours, and the rest just then.


Blog entry one

So I hadn't left the airport and i had already accepted drugs from strangers. Drug of choice being a hot pink sleeping tablet with a name which I'm sure I've heard in the movies but cannot remember. Don't worry it didn't work.. There's only five hours left so there's still time but I highly doubt it.

When I write it like that it does sound kind of dumb however they were med students, Brian, lance and Brian. and their story all matched up so at the time it seemed like a good idea. (famous last words?) But they were all very nice, and killed the forty or so minutes we had to wait to board. They live near Disneyland!! Although they did say the novelty died off once they had to start paying for entry - lucky, I get in for free! Anyway most of them had been studying from '04, '05 and '06 but they won't graduate till 2015!!! Crazy so glad I'm done. They also said walmart is always good to boost lift self esteem. Imma check that out. Virgin also have a seat chat thing so you could chat during the flight so the last hour went by fast because it took so long to type on the weird controls.

Anyway the planes pretty empty which is lovely as the seat next to me is empty and the guy next to the empty seat let me use the empty seat - still no luck sleeping though. He also said my sleeping tablet looked like an ecstasy tablet. I think we are in the all clear now, consider I took it about 6 hours ago.

Anyway I'm really bored which is why I typed all that, I also took a photo of my plane food because I'm cool like that, I'll upload if I remember. Five hours to go!!

Oh yeah, Alanna suggested to blog about three things I miss, so I figured I would do that now but I'll also do three things I'm looking forward to!

3 things I miss
My pillow
Leg room
Sleep

3 things I'm looking forward too
Checking in at the hotel
Meeting all the other Australians.
Going to walmart.

Ohh this is all out of order but I can't be bothered re ordering it, and I'll have to edit the pictures in later because I can't seem to get Internet on my Mac only the iPad.

Anyway got through intimidating customers the fastest I've ever got through customs and got on a very full flight to Minneapolis. Haha so random. But that airport is huge! And made it t my gate with five minutes to spare. When they say you have a fuzzy head I actually know what that feels like and it is not very pleasant. My head felt like I had an eye mask on My forehead. But by the time we landed it had disappeared and I made the epic journey to baggage claim, got my baggage, figured out how to get the mears shuttle to the hotel got to the hotel, checked in, got lost finding my room,found my room, washed my hair logged onto Internet and fell asleep. And just woke up.

Ohh and I got upgraded to exit row in premium economy on my last flight which was nice.

I epically rushed the last half but I wanted to get it down before the fun starts. Lance, Brian, brian and Albert (my seat buddy) if somehow your reading, hope you have a nice life!

I definitely needed the walmart boost after the epic journey!

T minus... 2 DAYS!!!

Ahhhh!!

TWO DAYS!  T-W-O Days! So exciting!

I can't believe its finally here, from my countdown in the 200's.

Anyway, so the big the news is, my lovely friends threw me a surprise goodbye party that I had absolutely no idea about!  I can't believe they actually managed to pull it off considering I've been having going away breakfasts/brunches/lunches/coffees/afternoonteas/dinners for the past two weeks.  So I was very surprised!  I'll post some photos when I get some.

Anyway, all thats left is to pack and to catch up with the last few people.  My next post may be in Orlando!  Ahh!

Why does Disney send exciting emails when I need to go to bed early?!

So breaking news,

We all just received an email about putting housing preferences in!  This kind of throws all my plans off as I was leaving it to Disney fate.  Now that we have this option I'm preferencing.  I'm still not room mate matching but I guess this is a pretty good option.  No program to my knowledge has been able to do it this way so perhaps they are trialing it with our group.

I figured in light of this I would explain how the housing works as the most common questions I get asked have to do with where I'm living blah blah blah.

SO

For all the disney programs there are four housing complexes.  Vista, which is the oldest, largest and has the reputation for being the party scene, then there is Patterson Court which is the newest but also has the reputation of a retirement home, then there is Chatham Square which is somewhere in the middle.  Lastly there is the Commons, which seems very mysterious as only internationals doing cultural representative programs live there but they are apparently mega fancy, i.e. having in built laundries.  

I'm pretty skeptical with doing preference systems, except I figure if I was going with Disney fate anyway it doesn't make much difference.  So I put Chatham, Patterson and Vista, in that order.

Then we had to pick number of rooms, there are 2 people for each room and we had the option of a 2, 3 or 4 bedroom.  I put 2 bedroom as number one because that way I'm guaranteed a bathroom to each of the rooms.  Followed by 3 then 4.  

We also got to pick the level we wanted, 1, 2, or 3.  I really don't care about the level so i just went 1, 2, 3.


SO yes, that is housing.   Will just have to wait and see!  Less than two weeks!  And 8 Days till I leave!! EEEEEEEK!

16 Days!! Zomg!! And Australian Flag Tattoos!!

Ahh I can't sleep and I'm excited so it's resulting in a blog post!!  I figure I should try and get into the habit of posting so that there is still a chance that I will post when I'm over there.  I make no promises.

So for a Fortune 500 company Disney sure like the element of surprise.  I guess it keeps us on our toes. Anyway, last week we got this lovely long email from Disney going through all the important last minute bits of info we need before checking in, when bam out of nowhere, slotted in the middle of the last paragraph of dot points, was a dot point along the lines of

• and your monthly insurance will be deducted from your pay monthly at a rate of $65-$75 depending on the cover you have chosen.

WTF?!  This was the first we had heard about it.  We had paid a $100 insurance fee and figured that covered us, but then they sprang this on us.   Long story short, and a few frantic phone calls later turns out this doesn't apply to us and we don't need to fork out an extra $70 a month.  Which is fantastic because a) the cover was hardly worth the money, basically just the essentials and b) I am getting my own insurance so the Disney insurance would have been redundant.   

But the good news is, it is all sorted!  

To add to all the excitement, last night some lovely Australians who are already doing the program started looking up all the locations for our roles!  So most of us (apparently they gradually release people into the system) know where we are working.  I wasn't sure if I wanted it to be a surprise or not but everyone else was finding out and I got caught up in the excitement.   So.. Drum Roll... I'm working at the TTC which is the Ticket and Transport Centre or something like that.  Exciting!  It's the biggest Vacation Planner spot so hopefully it will be fun, the only thing I'm not sure about is apparently TTC people get a few parade control shifts which I don't think I really want.  But we will see!

Umm, what else, well its 16 days till I leave, which is crazy.  I feel like everything's under control but I'm sure one week out I'll  be freaking out like crazy.

I've sort of, kind of started packing,  I'm aiming for only one suitcase, but I struggle with one suitcase for two weeks, so this will be interesting.

I'm having a Princess Tea Party as a goodbye kind of thing for my school friends for a bit of fun.  Hopefully I'll actually take some photos and upload.  

OHHH and the biggest news ever.  I bought my first ever Australia Flag Tattoos!!    The Olympics are going to be on while we are over there so I figured to show some Australian spirit they may come in handy.  And on that note it is going to be so weird watching the Olympics in another country!  But it will be half the fun.

So I am pretty sure I am rambling, so I'm going to leave this here.  Feel free to comment, ask questions etc etc!  

22 Days.

Only 23 days to go!  Without work or anything though it still seems kind of far away.  Although people from our little Disney group are starting to leave now, so I'm sure time will start to speed right along!  Almost in to the teens!!  We have come along way for the 200+ days.  I'm not even going to be there for 200 days.  Thats a scary thought.  It's actually 198 days until I am back!

The only things left are paying for Travel Insurance and converting to US $$$ but I think I'm too scared to bite the bullet.  Today might just be the day!.  I think I'm going to go with 1 Cover, considering I'm already doubling up on the Disney Insurance. 

There's really not much else going on, but I feel like I haven't updated in forever!

Visa - Ah-proved!

38 Days!!  Eeek!

It actually still kind of seems a decent amount of time away.  Especially now without work, and I think one last week of interning.  Then my interning days are over.   Crazy.

I did get my Visa approved on Wednesday and got it back on Friday (they take your passport, to put your visa in it)  which is great, because I've now booked/paid for my hotel accommodation,  my Disney fees, Disney Insurance all that's left is my insurance.  Just need some time to work out what is the best.

So getting the visa was rather pain free, despite the chronic waits.  I was second last for the day, everyone else's interviews (all 50+ of them) seemed to take at least 10 minutes.  Mine was literally 2 minutes.  Maybe it was the fact that I was practically the last one, who knows.  But it's done, and it's official.  I'm going to America!

I also registered for a Disney Class.  I chose exploring leadership, it will be two hours every week for eight weeks.  It's more a seminar type thing, so its not college level, but I didn't want it to eat into sight seeing, day off times.  I was really tempted to do corporate analysis, which is college level  but thats three hours, for 13 weeks and includes homework and assessments and I don't want that sort of commitment.  Especially since I've graduated and have a job.  I am looking forward to the leadership class.

Apart from all this, the countdown continues...

Blah

Reinstating my bitch about potential room mates blog post.

Telstra contract received.

Visa interview tomorrow.  Results Pending.

Bucket List posts to begin again.

45 Days!!!

I have been terribly slack in posting anything so I'm guessing by the time I get to Disney this blog will be all but extinct.

Anyway, I was going to post a few weeks back (but got lazy) because I met up with some lovely Sydney Disney people!  We went to pancakes on the rocks and proceeded to have desert before enjoying the vivid festival!  Everyone is super lovely and we never really ran out of things to talk about!  I'm sure I will appreciate knowing  a few faces and not just facebook faces when the nerves kick in!

Speaking of nerves, so far they don't exist - which is good.  I think its still that nice distance away that its still a nice surreal sort of dream but close enough to be exciting.  Once it gets to the packing stage things might change.  I'm at the sorting stage currently, today I went through my wardrobe and tossed out an entire garbage bag of clothes and got my coat hangers in order.  Making room for all the additional american clothing purchases.

I've also decided in purchasing  a new suitcase.  Mines big, but I want a huge one to fit everything I want to bring home.

Hmm apart from that Visa interview is on Wednesday - so it will be nice to get that sorted and thats about it!!


p.s. still no Telstra contract.  rage.

x

Resignation and Visa Interview!

Soooo world,

Things are starting to happen.   I officially handed in my resignation - last day 18 June!!  Three more rosters to come out and about 14 more shifts to do!  I've already been sent my exit survey and a list of things I need to do before I get my last pay check.  Mostly washing the ridiculous amount of uniform I've accumulated over the last 3 years.  Thanks Mum!

And in other BIG Disney related news, I've booked my VISA appointment!!!  Yayyyy - although it's still forever away - 20 June.  Kind of wish I had booked it for earlier, so I could get everything else organised, but I have so much stuff going on that it's just going to have to wait until then.  Fingers crossed everything goes smoothly.  So far no one in the Disney group has had any issues so I think I'll be fine!

The Starlight Five Chefs Dinner is next Thursday!!  So finally all the months of (unpaid)work will have paid off and we can see it all come together.  That will be a HUGEE day!  But I'm looking forward to it!

Following that, on the Friday we are all having a Sydney catch up (it was meant to be Saturday originally but a few people including myself can't make it, so there will be one on both Friday and Saturday).  It will be nice to put some faces to facebook.

I guess that is the next week in a nutshell!  Then we are into June and only 2 months to go!!!  Just waiting on my Telstra contract - then we are all set for the next 2.5 years.  Scary!!

Facebook.

So here is the fabulous thing about social media- it has given me the ability to get to know people before I even get to Disney.

The not so fabulous thing about social media - it has given me the ability to get to know people before I even get to Disney.

I have had this blog post in drafts for a while a wasn't sure if I should post it - don't want to start something before I've even gotten to Disney, but I don't want the blog to be just all about the good and neglect the bad.

A lot of people have have told mr all the things that could go wrong and what will I do then.  But I think that's part of the whole experience and I'll learn something regardless.

This may be a lesson in first impressions aren't always right, however....

Some people on our facebook group are just retarded and I have no idea how they are going to survive six months to a year abroad, nor how I am going to survive with them.. Haha ahh.  (That said though, there are A LOT of lovely people who I would love to get to know, but this post isn't about them).

Maybe it's just the way the written word on facebook comes across, but I'm seriously concerned about the possibility of having to be one of these peoples roommates.  My idea of leaving it up to Disney fate may not be the smartest.  What's better?  Settling for someone who will at least be tolerable in the very least, or going with the flow and having the possibility of living with people who drive me crazy.

Anyway, I could be wrong, I hope I'm wrong, but at the same time I'm not naive enough to think that we would all get along like happy campers ,  I too will probably drive people up the wall, but at least I try to refrain from being too annoying.

Haha there are about 3 people who I think I'll clash with, if I do I'll do another post.  Who knows, maybe I'll be best friends.  lolz.

Bad Blogger

Ahhh I can't even remember the last time I updated or what I said in the last update.  So for that I apologise (to all my millions of readers).


Anyway my excuse is...  drum roll..  I got into a graduate program!!!!  Wooo!!


This means that when I come back from Disney - 23/01/13 for those of you playing at home.  I will have a job to come back to!  Starting two weeks later!  Screams!!!


Yeah so I will be working at Telstra in their graduate development program.


So that is my excuse as to why I have not updated in forevers!


Anyway I did get my pack - not sure if I mentioned that,  I got it the day I was going to my assessment centre for the grad program.  Which was the first delay in doing anything with it.  Then everything kind of kept piling on and I still haven't submitted my Visa application.  I think I will have to do that tomorrow.


Apart from that nothing else has really happened.  I'm waiting for my Visa approval before i book insurance/accomodation/housingfees etc.  So until then everything is on hold.


Starlight has been getting busier.  The event is only two weeks away so lots of stuff needs to be done.


In more exciting news, now that I know I have a job, I know when I will be resigning from Club Central.  19 of June 2012!  Will hand in my official resignation  on Thursday!




In other news,  I've been stalking disney blogs, and came across a college program one, of a sixty-something year old who did the college program.  SHe managed to update every single day.  Little posts.  If I did a little bit everyday it wouldn't seem like such an overwhelming task.   Haha I doubt I could keep up but maybe I should try.


Anyway that is all for this post!


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T Minus Less Than One Hundred Days!!!

AHHHHHHHH  It is officially less than one hundred days till I embark on my Disney adventure*!  95 Days till I leave!!  Now when people ask when do I leave I give them the day by day countdown.  I'm sure they don't really care but they asked so they should be prepared to endure my Disney chit chat for the few minutes proceeding.


So anyway for all my millions of readers,  actually fun fact I've almost hit 1000 views.  It's probs my mum.  Actually it's not, I don't think she knows about my ramblings, she gets to live the build up 24/7.  Lucky her. 


Anyway there is really nothing to report other than I still haven't recieved my disney pack which means I cant book a visa interview, which means I don't want to book my accommodation  or pay my housing fees incase something goes wrong.  So I'm stuck.  Ughh.   Here's hoping it will be on my door step next week.  


However, it is less than 100 days which is definitely a mile stone.   I have 8 rosters left (at the most) to get from work, so thats also quite exciting!  A part from that whole lot of nothing, nothing else has happened so I'm going to stop right here.






*provided I ever get my Disney pack and visa approval!

Stilllll Waitingg

Ahhh.

Still, still waiting.   I now needed to send in a copy of my diploma.  I sent my official transcripty thing from the uni which hopefully should cover it but ahhh.

Anyway, aside from the waiting, in a few days it will 100 days till I leave!  I can't believe we are finally down to double digits, in some ways it seems only yesterday like we were in the 200's but then that also feels like ages ago, and another 100 days seems so incredibly far away.

Apart from waiting, and waiting, and refreshing my emails, I've still been interning at the Starlight Foundation.  It's cool, a lot of work but I've brought in a fair bit of money for the organisation and have got to do some very cool things.  The event is called Five Chefs, and they bring 5 top chefs from each state to put on a five course dinner at the very accessible price of $500 per person to raise money for Starlights programs.  It's Starlight's biggest annual fundraiser and there is still so much to do with only about 6 weeks to go!  Ahh.  So at least that is keeping me occupied.

I've also been working a fair bit which is tiring me out like crazy but at least I will have plenty of funds to splurge at Disney!

I guess the only other thing that is keeping me distracted from Disney would be my grad job applications. I've had a few rejects but overall things are progressing nicely.  Fingers crossed!  And if I don't get one, I guess I'll just spend another 6 months at Disney!  Tough life.

Anyway, I thought it was time to update you all - it wasn't very Disney related but it may have given you a bit more of an idea of who I am.  Ooh  that was corny.  Annywayyyy.  I will update as soon as anything Disney-esque comes through.

Over and out.
x

Waaiiiiitttinnngggg

& Waaiiitttinngggg for my Disney Welcome Pack :(

Everyone's got theres but I don't :(

So sad :(

Cameron hates me, he probably did it on purpose :(

Wahhh

I booked my tickets!!

I booked my tickets!!  It's very exciting, I should have posted when I booked them, but I got lazy.

So, I'm posting exactly a week later.  I had an obsessive, compulsive disorder when it came to booking flights, literally checking websites everyday and then BAM.  Last Sunday they dropped down to $1100, so I purchased!!

I'm flying out on the 1 August at 1.40pm on Virgin Airways!  (Booked through delta because I want the frequent flyer miles)  and returning the 21st of January!!!  Yaya!

I've also decided that I will take all of July off, just to chill and get ready!  So I have just over three months of work to go!  Getting closer!!

In other news, my Police Check finally came back, so I sent that off and got confirmation without any issues.

We did get ANOTHER email from disney about proof of student status, but I've already sent off two so I'm not sure what to do and they haven't sent me any response back, so I'll just leave it till they reply.

I think thats about it that has been happening on the Disney front.  Almost 4 months till i start!! Ahh!!

Goal # 9

Goal # 9 - Create my own treat at Goofy's Candy Co.

T minus 140 Days!

So it's exactly 140 days until D Day!  It's getting super, super close and I have so much to do.


I'm still waiting for my Police check to come back from the feds, it's over two weeks now so hopefully it will come this week, otherwise I don't know what has happened to it.  They've taken the money out of the account though so hopefully soon!


Once everyone has sent their background checks to disney we will be sent our welcome/Visa packs, exciting!!  So hopefully mid April I will get this, because once I get this, I can book my visa interview which is the last thing I need to clear before it will be official that ill be working at Disney!  Yay!


Anyway the other thing I need to think about is booking flights.  I haven't booked yet, I may wait till after my Visa has been approved because I still have no idea when I want to come home or when I need to come home.


I've been applying for graduate jobs which is exhausting but would be ideal to get, as I would start in Jan/Feb 2013, so I would basically come back from Disney with a job lined up.  But if I did get one I need to know when I'm needing to come home.  So the flights are taking a back seat.


So apart from applying for grad jobs and thinking about Disney I've just been working.  One 10 hour shift on a Sat is like a week at Disney, so I shouldn't complaint too much.  Oh and I'm now fairly sure I'll quit work at the end of June so I get a chance to relax and get organised which means I've only got 3.5 months of work left!!  or 14 weeks!  I got this.


I think this could be my most disjointed blog post thus far,  so hope it makes sense.

T Minus 145 Days + A Background Check

I've been meaning to write a long story for a while, but I can never really be bothered.  It's not looking good for regular updates when in Disney.

So I sent my police check off two thursdays ago, hopefully I'll get it back soon otherwise I'm probably a criminal.   Yup.

For those playing at home it was $45 and you need to pay by cheque or money order (which is apparently some fancy thing you get from the post office)  so I got out my parents cheque book.  Excellent.

Thats it for today or this will never get posted.

Goal # 8 - (Trump Card )

If I achieve this goal, none of the others matter.


Dine at Club33.  


This will be practically impossible considering you need to be a member, there is a wait list of over 14 years, and they actually closed the wait list.  


If I do this, I'm awesome.








You can read more here.


http://www.disneylandclub33.com

Room Mate Survey

DCP Roommate Survey - Fall 2012, Walt Disney World

NAME: Jessica Louise Anderson

GENDER: Female

BIRTHDATE/AGE: 09/09/90

HOMETOWN: Sydney, Australia

MAJOR: Commerce with a Major in Marketing and Public Relations

CP VITALS

ROLE AT DISNEY: Vacation Planner

ARRIVAL DATE: August 4th 2012

DEPARTURE DATE: January 4th 2013

FLYING IN OR DRIVING: Flying. Definitely flying.

HOUSING PREFERENCES

BUILDING: Chatham.

NUMBER OF ROOMMATES: I think a 2 or 3 bedroom but I don't really care.

I COULD NOT LIVE WITH A ROOMMATE THAT: Smokes. I don't want my room to smell of smoke.

LIFESTYLE STUFF

DO YOU DRINK? Occasionally.

DO YOU SMOKE? No.

DO YOU LIKE TO PARTY? Yes!

MEDICAL CONDITIONS? None that are life altering/threatening

MESSY OR TIDY? I go through random outbursts of intense organisation/cleaning, but if I'm busy it tends to fall by the wayside.

DO YOU LIKE TO COOK? At the moment I'm pretty lazy. When I get the motivation to cook, I like it and given that I'll be forced to, to a certain extent, I might.

NIGHT PERSON OR MORNING PERSON? Both?

DO YOU HAVE A CURRENT JOB? WHERE? Yes, I intern at Starlight Foundation, do some admin-y stuff for a not for profit organisation and a club job.

ROOMMATE STUFF

FAVORITE CHORE? Washing.

LEAST FAVORITE CHORE? Probably the bathroom.

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT SHARING? I have a weird thing about sharing clothes, but anything else is totally fine.

DO YOU SNORE? Only when I am sick

WHAT TIME DO YOU USUALLY GO TO BED? Usually after 11.30

WHAT TIME DO YOU WAKE UP ON FREE DAYS? Around 9.

I PREFER TO SLEEP IN A ROOM THAT IS: Dark, cold but with an electric blanket.

DISNEY STUFF

FAVORITE MOVIE: Beauty and the Beast or High School Musical

FAVORITE CHARACTER: Mickey

FAVORITE PRINCESS: Belle

FAVORITE PRINCE: Beast or Prince Eric

FAVORITE MALE VILLAIN: Gaston

FAVORITE FEMALE VILLAIN: Cruella DeVille - She's just so evilishly Stylish. Perhaps Queen of Hearts.

FAVORITE PARK: It will probably be EPCOT

FAVORITE RIDE: Space Mountain or Tower of Terror

FAVORITE SHOW: Hannah Montanna

FAVORITE RESORT: We will soon find out

FAVORITE RESTAURANT: As above

NUMBER OF TIMES AT DISNEY?: Twice!

WHAT ARE YOU MOST EXCITED ABOUT AT DISNEY? So many things, meeting new people is probably number one, and I guess the whole experience within itself. 

Goal # 7

Have High Tea at the Grand Floridian Garden View Tea Room

Goal # 6

Go on EVERY single ride...

Here's one...

T minus 160 Days!

So it is exactly one hundred and sixty days till I leave!! Yayyy!!


Not much is really happening on the Disney front, although we now have the go ahead with out police checks.  Once everyone has sent their paperwork away it will soon be time for Visa stuff!  Wooo!


I figure because I don't really have much to say I'll give you a run down on the accommodation situation.


Basically there are four housing complexes for Disney international college program,  Vista Way, Chatham Square, Patterson Court and the Commons, although no one in the Australian program gets placed in the Commons.


Vista Way is the biggest, the oldest and has a reputation for being party central, Patterson Court is the newest/nicest but has the reputation of being a retirement village, and Chatham is a mix of the two.  I'm hoping for Chatham, though we don't really get a choice, so will just have to wait and see.


Anyway the apartments are mostly 2 and 3 bedroom with two people to a room, although there are a few four bedrooms and apparently very, very few one bedroom apartments.  So I'll mostly likely be sharing an apartment with 4 to 8 people.  Should be interesting.  


This is the list we get that tells us EXACTLY what we will be getting.  No surprises.  Definitely gonna need that ladle and I'm gonna make heaps good use of the weight room.  I'm gonna come back massive.


Anyway this is it for this week!

• All utilities, including water, electricity, waste disposal
• High-speed Internet access in all apartments (additional information below)
• Local phone service and one central phone
• Centrally located laundry facilities
• Maintenance of the apartments, including pest control
• Onsite security
• Cable television hook-up
• Computer labs
• Wireless Internet Lounge, Clubroom Thirteen501
• Swimming pools
• Weight rooms
• Tennis, basketball and racquetball courts
• Fully furnished apartment
• Bedroom
  • Dresser with mirror
  • Nightstand
  • (2) Twin beds
  • Dining Room
  • Table with 4 chairs
• Living Room
  • Couch
  • Chair
  • 2 End tables
• Additional Items Provided
  • Shower Curtain
  • 2 Vanity wastebaskets
• Kitchen Appliances
  • Refrigerator with ice maker
  • Stove, Oven, & Microwave
  • Dishwasher
• Kitchen Utensils and Dishes
  • Assortment of Pots & Pans w/ lids
  • Mixing Bowl Set
  • Measuring Cups
  • Cutting Board
  • Spatula
  • Can Opener
  • Cutting Knife
  • Ladle
  • Tea Kettle
  • Serving Spoons
  • Cookie Sheets
  • Dinner plates
  • Salad Plates
  • Cereal Bowls
  • Drinking Glasses
  • Coffee Cups
  • Set of knives, spoons and forks

Goal # 5

Go on a date at Magic Kingdom*.

Stolen from an American but the idea seems cute

T Minus 167 Days

5.5 months to go!  So I decided to post a pic because I was too lazy to fill you in on whats been happening on the Disney front.  Then I decided, why not it's been a while since I wrote anything decent, so here goes.

I finally found out my pay rate for doing casual work at Intellectual Disability Council - I was expecting it to be around the $15 mark being non profit and what not.  Turns out its basically four times as much as I will make an hour at Disney!  Woohoo!  So the savings going well, I was worried for a while there but it seems like it will all go to schedule.


Then this week I started my internship at the Starlight Foundation, basically working on getting sponsorship and donations for their biggest national event which is actually really cool.  I was worried it was totally out of my depth but I think I might do alright at it.  Only time will tell.  Everyone there is really nice and on my first day I had a welcome sign with glitter stars sprinkled everywhere, was super cute and everyone was really welcoming.


Oh and Spanish is going OK.  It's hard and I really haven't had time to practice but I'm learning a lot which is good.




OK now onto the Disney stuff!






I got an e-mail, I got an e-mail!  Yayy, only four days after everyone else when I emailed them asking why it hadn't arrived yet, but still I got it.  


It mostly talks about getting our police checks done asap as well as medical insurance which is terribly confusing and I have no idea what it covers because it seems to be only $100 which would be a huge cost saver and I think I would now be set to cover all my expenses and money for Disney!  Yay,  anything I earn now will just be a bonus!


I'll try to keep you updated.  Not a lot has really been going on though.


Lots of love..




Ohh p.s.   Follow my blog, comment, ask a question.  I get bored and want attention.

Goal # 4

Get my Ducktorate*!

I'll explain in a later post.

W.D Quote # 1

I like this.

Goal # 3

Drink Around the World at Epcot World Showcase. 

Whose in?