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!