Disney Confessions 101

I am a Disney fanatic. There I confessed, it's a bit unnecessary because anyone who spends 10 minutes within my presence can automatically tell that for themselves especially if they say the D word or 'Disney'. Last school semester I realised that I would need a job and the last place I worked at had gone out of business. No good, well actually very good because I hated....er didnt find highly favourable. But in any case I needed a job.


   And where should a Disney fanatic work at? Disney of course! So I applied and got accepted. My mum and I flew to Florida on Sunday. That in itself was an adventure. We woke up waaay early, 3:30 AM (!) to catch our flight from California to Wiscousin. You know, opnce I had left Idaho I had promised myself that I wouldn't see snow anymore until April. Ha. That promise was broken the minute I looked out the plane's window when we landed. All I could see what landscape that looked suspiciously cold. After some running around and a few misdirections Mum and I found our plane that took us to Orlando. Ahhh much better! The only white cold stuff around were the fluffy white clouds.

             Once we landed, we took the Magic Express to our hotel resort. The All Star Music Resort is gorgeous! Each pair of buildings has a different musical theme; our building was the Jazz Inn. The rooms are very nice and on one bed the towels were arranged in the shape of Mickey Mouse! Very nice, n'est-ce pas?
 We were going to head out to explore Downtown Disney but we ended up in the resort's gift shop, close enough. There were lots of fun things to admire and well want to buy.


        So an already too long story made short, I'm in Florida right now to work at Disney World! Confession: I am working at the Magic Kingdom at Pesco Bill's Cafe. Exciting? Definitely. Hmm I think I'll make this too long blog even longer, I'm going to write about my Grand Adventure of Day 1 at Disney.


         Day 1 was an adventure, I got to ride in a taxi, (first time ever) and travel to the Disney appartments and fill out a ton of paperwork. Maybe not a ton but close enough. I met alot of nice people there, lots of BYUI students too. When I went to the counter to get my house complex assigned, the lady told me that the guy before me was BYUI also. She had him going that she was a psychic; when he came to the counter she asked him how he liked BYUI and he was amazed. How did she know he asked. He was wearing a sweater shirt w/ BYUI written on the front. I guess he forgot he was wearing it :D. Disney put most of the BYU students at Chatham. Once we were done at here, we took a bus to Casting.

  A hundred lines later in the Casting Building, I got my ID card. I didnt mind the lines though, the murals are beautiful and there were lots of shiny gold statues of the main Disney characters. Yay for shiny! Oh so one of the statues were of Roger Rabbit, it took me a bit to realise who it was, one doesn't see Roger Rabbit that much so I was excited to see him. After I finished giving out my John  Hancock at Casting, I dragged my luggage to Chatham- that's my appartment complex. Later that day I met my roommies. My suitemate is a fellow BYUI student, and the other two are from BYU Hawaii. I think we're going to get along swell :).


           I think I mastered the bus schedule :D Totally by accident too. I accidently left my scriptures at the hotel room so I had to figure out what bus to take to get them. My mom couldnt take them, not only was there no room in her carry on but turns out that taking scriptures thru security is not a good idea. The gilded edges on the pages makes them glow funny under the scanner. I dont recommend having anything be funny in the airport; it gets you a quick trip to the TSA. And we all know what that means. Well I think that sums up the fun from Day 1!

        Day 2 started out with a housing meeting at the Commons. The Commons is housing for international students, and their clubhouse is beautiful! The courtyard has a raised stone fountain and a gym. The gym they can keep but I really liked the fountain. The meeting covered the basics rules and explanations of how the appartments were ran. Afterwards my roommates and I decided to go out and explore. And most importantly, explore somewhere that was conviently near food. We took a bus to go to Crossroads, the name made my suitmate and I laugh; at BYUI the school's foodplace is also called the Crossroads.

      So when I said I mastered the bus system, I now know that I must have lied. We ate at CiCi's, a pizza buffet like Craigos, that has a delicious apple dessert pizza. Afterwards we were walking around while waiting for the bus came, it didnt. After waiting for awhile we realised our mistake. We didn't get off at the Crossroads stop but rather the post office stop. And since the post office closed around 5, and it was 6 something the bus route had finished for the day. We were stranded! Luckily one of my roommates has a sister that works for Disney and also she luckily had a car and was luckily done with her shift. So she came by to pick us up/save us.  She recommends that we learn the bus system or always bring a bus schedule. I think she may have a good point there :D.

            Last story of Day 2, I figured out to get my appartment wireless internet so we don't need ethernet cables! Yes, moi the girl who has trouble with technology due to an acute case of OES (operator's error syndrome). Ok ok ok, I didnt do it completely by myself...........oh fine! I'll confess- I was walked through the process baby-step by baby-step by the very patient and helpful technical staff. But still! By the time I was off the phone, we had wireless so I get some credit, right?

     Well that sums up the The Grand Adventures of a Disney Fanatic for Day 1 and 2! You know, I think I'm going to love it here. TTFN!