Let me start off with my apologizes to those who have been wondering where I have been lately.
I have been trying to write a blog every day for the past week! Everyday has just been so busy, but I finally have two days off and I am sitting down and writing one! (And once again...it's a novel! Enjoy!)
Tuesday, March 19th:
This was our move in day! I wont lie, it was an emotionally exhausting day. I had to say goodbye to our family friends who we stayed with for a week. My parents and I headed to sign in at disney housing. I was super nervous when I got there but was kindly welcomed by the Disney family (I mean that literally, everyone was so kind and welcoming. The lady who brought me to my apartment greeted me with a big hug). Right as I was about to leave the office at the Vista Way complex (Disney housing has 4 different apartment complexes. Vista Way, The Commons, Chatham Square and Patterson Court) when I had ran into Emily (a fellow Canadian I had been talking to over facebook who was at the same interview and happened to be the other only Canadian with the same start date as myself) and found out we were roommates! We headed over to Chatham Square (the apartment complex where we are living) and unpacked. My parents took us to Walmart and we got groceries, my phone and other things. I have to say Walmart's in the states are huge! It's lucky my parents drove us, our cart was over flowing! We came back and unloaded the groceries, then came the dreaded part. I had to say goodbye to my parents. It was difficult, but since I have already lived on my own before it didn't as bad. Since our other roommates (I have three other roommates all together) hadn't arrived yet, Emily and I had spaghetti and watched Alice in Wonderland. It was also and early night for us, we wen't to bed at 10pm (which was when Elli, my other roommate from England, arrived).
Wednesday, March 20th:
The first day of orientation. The first thing we did was get our I.D cards for accessing the complexes and busses. Emily and I came home for a bit and had met our other roommate, Ronja from Norway. Later we had a meeting about the complex community. So we learnt about events and different things disney and the apartments have to offer. Not too much happened on this day.
Thursday, March 21st:
Today we had more orientation. This was a little more intense then Wednesday, it was all about the rules and paperwork which all started at 8am. It was exhausting. Later a bunch of us went to Downtown Disney, it was a lot of fun! They had a dance circle and we all joined in and danced for about 2 hours! We headed home around 10pm and that's when I started to feel a little iffy. But my night wasn't over. Emily and I headed over to Patterson for our "Throw In" party (Its where all the Canadians welcome the new ones). Since there was only two of us who were new, it felt a little awkward because all the attention was on just us (which I'm not really use to so I felt super awkward) but everyone was so fully of energy and extremely welcoming.
Friday, March 22nd:
I was so happy that today was our day off! I ended up getting sick and having a fever, so today I literally spent the day in bed. I did nothing but watch Friends, sleep and make a couple phone/skype calls.
Saturday, March 23rd:
An early morning start! All the new cast members headed down to Disney University for Traditions. We learnt about the overall rules, safety and information about Walt Disney World. We also got to head down to the Magic Kingdom for a quick tour and observation. I ended up getting a horrible migraine when we came back that lasted for a good 2 or 3 hours, so I didn't really have as good of a time at Traditions as others might have. But we got are name tags and Disney I.D's and became official cast members!
My Name Tag!
Sunday, March 24th and Monday, March 25th:
Both Sunday and Monday we're spent doing online safety and restaurant courses. And on Monday we also met our manager, Carrie. She went over the regulations of the restaurant and explained what kind of things we will be doing and why Le Cellier is so popular (It's the second most popular fine dining restaurant in all of Walt Disney World. The wait time to get in is about 6 months!). She then answered any questions with us and gave us a booklet about the different positions, the menu and different wines to help us learn more about what we need to learn.
Tuesday, March 26th:
It was discovery day today. That means we got a tour of Epcot and a tour through our pavilion. We also got our costumes today! For the Canadians we have two costumes (we are the only pavilion to have two costume. One for outdoors and one for in the restaurant). As well as we got our badges to show that we are in training or as Disney likes to say "Earning our Ears".
My costume is for outside at the popcorn vendor
and Emily is wearing the Le Cellier costume.
I'm finally "Earning My Ears"!
Wednesday, March 27th and Thursday, March 28th:
Both days I had off and I start training on Friday. Wednesday I went to Hollywood Studios with some friends. Let me give you a tip....Disney during the American spring break is extremely crazy busy! We were there from 2pm till about 6:30pm and we were only able to go on 3 rides! It was so busy that even the fast-passes weren't available anymore! Still a pretty good day. And today (Thursday) I went and had a fast lunch with my friend Mat and did a quick walk around Epcot (almost met Snow White) before he had to go to work. Then I came home and got caught up on my laundry (it was pretty bad haha) and wrote this blog! Tonight might be an early night because I want to be well rested for the big day tomorrow!
I think I will leave it at that...I hope it gave you a little insight to what I have been doing so far. I've also have been trying to write down things that I wish people had mentioned to me before I came down to prepare me better...so I will at some point write a blog about all of that. I will also hopefully doing a room tour once I become a little more settled in.
Till next time,
-Janice
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
-Walt Disney
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