Okay, so let just say how amazing this movie was! It was a classic Disney movie, and it wasn't missing anything! I advise all of you out there to see it!! I was like it seems, very impressed and suprised how good it was! So much that i'm going to share some music from it!
Louis;If I were a human being,I'd head straight for New Orleans!And I'd blow this horn so hard and stronglike no one they've ever seen!We've heard of Louis Armstrong, Mr. Sydney Brushade;All those boys gonna step aside when they hearthat song thats gator playin', Listen!*Trumpet Solo*When I'm human, as I hope to be!I'm gonna blow this horn til the cows come homeand everyone's gonna bow down to me.Thank you, thank you! *Mwah* *Mwah* Aw thank you!I love you too baby!Naveen;When I'm myself again I want just the life I had.A great big party every night!That doesn't sound too bad.A red head on my left arm, a brunette on my right,a blonde or two to hold the candles, that seems justabout right, eh Louis?Life is short, when you're done, you're done!We're on this earth to have some fun!And thats the way things are.Louis;Tell it brother!Naveen;When I'm human, and I'm gonna be!I'm gonna tare it up like I did before.Thats a royal garentee!Tiana;Your modesty becomes you,and your sense of responsibilty-I worked hard for everything I've got,and thats the way its supposed to be!When I'm a human being, at least I'll act like one.If you do your best each and everyday,good things are sure to come your way!What you give is what you get!My daddy said that and I'll never forget!And I commend it to you.Louis, Naveen, & Tiana;When we're human, and we're gonna be!Louis;I'm gonna blow my horn!*Trumpet Solo*Naveen;I'm gonna live the high life!Tiana;I'm gonna do my best to take my place in the sun...!Louis, Naveen, & Tiana;When, we're, human!
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Nothing to do on days off
Hey Everyonee!!
So we're getting closer and closer to Christmas and honestly, i can't wait for it to be over. It's hard not being home for it and it kinda feels like it's been dragging on forever. The decorations and music started in the beginning on November, so yeah. But i am enjoying the season too. Our restraunt is going to look so empty. And it will be back to the dreaded lumberjack music!! haha oh well.
The new arrivals seem cool. I've talked to a couple now, but only the ones that work in Attractions.
I've been finding on my days off i've been doing absolutly nothing. No one has the same days off, it's the two last days before we get paid. I don't know.. so i'm usually just sitting here. I think we have another schedule bid coming up in January, so Edd and i will sync days off. My first one was in September..and i was 7th in seignourity, so i think i'll be even higher. We'll see. Probably ask for Thursday & Friday off.
I don't really have much else to say. My family sent me a package in the mail that's due on Friday, which is exciting. And i believe Edd and i are spending Chrsitmas together at The Grand Floridian, so hopfully i'll have a camera by then!
That's it for now,
Take Caree!
xox
122 Days until i'm back in Canada!! < 3
So we're getting closer and closer to Christmas and honestly, i can't wait for it to be over. It's hard not being home for it and it kinda feels like it's been dragging on forever. The decorations and music started in the beginning on November, so yeah. But i am enjoying the season too. Our restraunt is going to look so empty. And it will be back to the dreaded lumberjack music!! haha oh well.
The new arrivals seem cool. I've talked to a couple now, but only the ones that work in Attractions.
I've been finding on my days off i've been doing absolutly nothing. No one has the same days off, it's the two last days before we get paid. I don't know.. so i'm usually just sitting here. I think we have another schedule bid coming up in January, so Edd and i will sync days off. My first one was in September..and i was 7th in seignourity, so i think i'll be even higher. We'll see. Probably ask for Thursday & Friday off.
I don't really have much else to say. My family sent me a package in the mail that's due on Friday, which is exciting. And i believe Edd and i are spending Chrsitmas together at The Grand Floridian, so hopfully i'll have a camera by then!
That's it for now,
Take Caree!
xox
122 Days until i'm back in Canada!! < 3
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Christmas isn't happening this year
Hey Everyonee!!
So i really don't have too much to say! I'm sitting in my apartment, on my bed alone.. because my roommate is Chicago. ( Wow that sounded wrong.. let me re-phrase that) i'm sittting in my room alone. Yeah, Michelle has been gone for a couple days now and comes home on Friday.
We just had a throw in tonight and it was good. I don't really find them too fun anymore because i honest to god hate hanging out in big groups of Canadians. They always end up so dramatic and i don't like to be around it so much. I'm rubbish (opps.. the UK in me is coming out!!) at updating my blog. I write in my journal quite often. It's the better version to be quite honest. It has my real feelings/emotions/moods etc in it. Also, it has all the things that i can't talk about because of Disney Cast Memember Confidentionality. Soo don't read it please. (if you see it kicking around). There were a lot of neat Canadians that arrived today. Melissa's identical twin sister was in this arrival group, a guy from Newfoundland, a Johnny Storm wannabeee haha.. and a bunch of others. Let's see who i get to train. A sad part is that Craig enlighted me on something interesting. Him and Kelly only have one more throw in. So that means the next arrival group is in February. So that means i have two or three left. Depending on how many the squeeze in. It's insane.
On a better note, chrsitmas i nearly here and that's exciting. I've decided that this year doesn't count for anything, so christmas isn't an exception. haha
Anyways, i need to be up early tomorrow to go to Walmart before i go to work.
Have a good night
Sam
xox
p.s- 128 days until i'm finished my contract!!
So i really don't have too much to say! I'm sitting in my apartment, on my bed alone.. because my roommate is Chicago. ( Wow that sounded wrong.. let me re-phrase that) i'm sittting in my room alone. Yeah, Michelle has been gone for a couple days now and comes home on Friday.
We just had a throw in tonight and it was good. I don't really find them too fun anymore because i honest to god hate hanging out in big groups of Canadians. They always end up so dramatic and i don't like to be around it so much. I'm rubbish (opps.. the UK in me is coming out!!) at updating my blog. I write in my journal quite often. It's the better version to be quite honest. It has my real feelings/emotions/moods etc in it. Also, it has all the things that i can't talk about because of Disney Cast Memember Confidentionality. Soo don't read it please. (if you see it kicking around). There were a lot of neat Canadians that arrived today. Melissa's identical twin sister was in this arrival group, a guy from Newfoundland, a Johnny Storm wannabeee haha.. and a bunch of others. Let's see who i get to train. A sad part is that Craig enlighted me on something interesting. Him and Kelly only have one more throw in. So that means the next arrival group is in February. So that means i have two or three left. Depending on how many the squeeze in. It's insane.
On a better note, chrsitmas i nearly here and that's exciting. I've decided that this year doesn't count for anything, so christmas isn't an exception. haha
Anyways, i need to be up early tomorrow to go to Walmart before i go to work.
Have a good night
Sam
xox
p.s- 128 days until i'm finished my contract!!
Friday, November 13, 2009
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Hey Everyonee!!
So.. yup, the title explains everything! Everywhere you look in Florida, you see christmas! It's amazing! I get sooo excited! I force myself to walk to work everyday (on the promanode) just so i get to walk by the huge Christmas tree. I'm going to Epcot tomorrow morning before i start work, so i'll take lots of pictures of all the christmas decorations!! We have decorations in our pavillion, christmas music is playing, we have the decorations in our restruant. I get so happy when i'm walking around the restraunt now. Like it's cold outside now, so it just has that feeling as if it's christmas eve. I'm sure it'll all get old by the time christmas hits, but still.
I've seen the new A Christmas Carol by Jim Carrey twice! ( I fell asleep for one showing!) And i've been to Magic Kingdom's Very Merry Christmas Party! It was such a blast and really got me in the Christmas mood. I'm hoping to go with a bunch of Canadians on Sunday! =) All i listen to on my time off is Chrsitmas music! Ohh and w just got out 50% discount in merchandise!! So that's really exciting and i need to start buying presants! I've got some done. lol
I don't really have much else to say. Ohh i'm going to be an offical trainer soon!
I cornered Janice and forced her to put me on the list. We were supposed to have our "formal interview" tonight, but it got kind of chiotic with guests and a large party that walked in because they were a big VIP! No one i knew, but very famous chairtible guy?.. so she said we're doing it Sunday when she's back. So i'm pretty excited about that. Ohh and then i'm going on my cruise next week which is even more exciting, and the best part is i'm going to be legal over there!! Yay!! GEtting drunnk off my face!!! This will be fun!! And in all fairness, i havn't had a glass to drink since i was in Canada.. so it'll be good!!
Well this is it for now! Super excited about riding Space MOuntain tomorrow morning! The opening was yesterday!
Tak Caree!
Sam
xox
So.. yup, the title explains everything! Everywhere you look in Florida, you see christmas! It's amazing! I get sooo excited! I force myself to walk to work everyday (on the promanode) just so i get to walk by the huge Christmas tree. I'm going to Epcot tomorrow morning before i start work, so i'll take lots of pictures of all the christmas decorations!! We have decorations in our pavillion, christmas music is playing, we have the decorations in our restruant. I get so happy when i'm walking around the restraunt now. Like it's cold outside now, so it just has that feeling as if it's christmas eve. I'm sure it'll all get old by the time christmas hits, but still.
I've seen the new A Christmas Carol by Jim Carrey twice! ( I fell asleep for one showing!) And i've been to Magic Kingdom's Very Merry Christmas Party! It was such a blast and really got me in the Christmas mood. I'm hoping to go with a bunch of Canadians on Sunday! =) All i listen to on my time off is Chrsitmas music! Ohh and w just got out 50% discount in merchandise!! So that's really exciting and i need to start buying presants! I've got some done. lol
I don't really have much else to say. Ohh i'm going to be an offical trainer soon!
I cornered Janice and forced her to put me on the list. We were supposed to have our "formal interview" tonight, but it got kind of chiotic with guests and a large party that walked in because they were a big VIP! No one i knew, but very famous chairtible guy?.. so she said we're doing it Sunday when she's back. So i'm pretty excited about that. Ohh and then i'm going on my cruise next week which is even more exciting, and the best part is i'm going to be legal over there!! Yay!! GEtting drunnk off my face!!! This will be fun!! And in all fairness, i havn't had a glass to drink since i was in Canada.. so it'll be good!!
Well this is it for now! Super excited about riding Space MOuntain tomorrow morning! The opening was yesterday!
Tak Caree!
Sam
xox
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Halloween is over and the Christmas Decorations are offically up!
Heyy Everyonee!!!!
I really appologize that i never update my blog. I really think about it a lot, but after working 6 11 hour shifts in a row, i get a little exhausted. I finally get my day off tomorrow, well it's more today now. 24 ours form now i'll be asleep ready for work the next day! =( I usually get two days off in a week, but I forgot that i told Allison i'd take her shift if she needed me to so she could enjoy her birthday and have her party. So that put me on a six day work week, and it was pretty exhausting because it just so happens that every shift was a Greeter, and 5 out of 6 were training, so yes it will be good money, but i'm beginning to lose my voice again because i've been talking soo much to the guests and training all the new people. I really enjoy training and this new group really proved me wrong. I heard nothing but bad things about them and there were a couple returnies.. and i heard both of them were huge bitches.. but they have all been wonderful and were a treat training them. =) I'm working on trying to become an offical trainer, but who knows? The weather was disgustingly hot and humid again, but yesterday and today we were freezing. Next to no humidity and very cool tempetures, i don't think we hit above 23 C degrees today, it was nice, but thought i needed a sweater. I hope this stays now for good for a few months. Ohh poo, i'm soo sleepy, but i'm going tot make sure i complete a good post. Just thought i'd throw it out there that i'm listening to Jingle Bell Rock!!! <3 Yes, it's November 4th, and Christmas is here at Disney. I havn't seen it yet, but the decorations are now up at the Magic Kingdom. They're all sittting right backstage ready to go up after Thanksgiving at Epcot, but the stores in Epcot were decked up before Halloween was over. It's so exciting, and i think i'm going to have an amazing Christmas this year. It's going to suck a lot to be away from my friend and family.. but i'm also so eager to spend it with all my friends here. Edd & Michelle, they honestly feel like family now. It's killing me to think of what life is going to be with out them in 5 months. Things are coming along well here. Well, sort of. Halloween was so much fun. I didn't do much on the actual day, but just the fall season was a blast. I did Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party three different times. The Parade is soo much fun, Hallowishes is incredible, and all the characters are all dressed up, how and there's pounds and pounds of candy given out! I'm really excited because the Very Merry Christmas Parade cast preview is this Friday, and it's going to be super exciting!! =) It's only cast members only. I did the cast preview of Boo to You Halloween Parade. I've never had so much fun at a parade. The cast in the parade are just so full of energy because they know they're performing to their friends.. and cast of the sidelines are so full of energy screaming and cheering them all on! I've switched me PM to an AM with Brad and i'm going to get there super early so i can get a good spot this time and take tons of pictures.
So the Food & Wine festival is coming to an end this weekend. THANK GOD! I've never been so happy for something to end before. The park is sooo crowded and has resulted in me dropping a keg on my foot, and then the following week.. exact same day and time Allison dropped a keg of her foot! It's cursed i tell you, cursed!!! Hmm.. what else is going on. Ohh Edd and I did the four park challenge a couple weeks ago. We did it while staying at All Star Sports and Music. I had such a blast and had a hard time recouperating from it. I went into work the next day absoulty exhausted and drained. It was weird after having a couple days off. The 4 park Challenge intails hitting all 4 parks in one day, doing 4 of the main rides, meeting 2 characters, getting pictures infront of all the main thingers icon thing..and seeing 1 parade and 1 firework show at any of the 4 parks. It was tuff, but we pulled it off. We met up infront of The Commons Clubhouse at 7:30am, walked to Chatham Square Housing Complex and caught the K bus to the All Star Resort, dropped off all our stuff there and headed out to Animal Kingdom for the opening and we made it. We finished the day at Epcot at 12:00am on the dot. It was a long grueling day that included a crap load of running, pictures and waiting in line. I had soo much fun though. We're try8ing to do another one soon i think. I can't wait.
Okay, i think this is a decent enough update for now. I'm exhausted and would like to get some sleep considering it's 3am.
Also, if you could.. leave a comment on one of my posts if you read this because i'm curious how many of you are actually reading it. I don't care who it is... like your name, but i'm cursious.
Have goodnight everyone!!
&& I'll leave you with the fact that i'm listening/dancing to "I don't Dance" from High School Musical 2. ****Don't judge me, i work for Walt Disney World.!
Sam
xox
I really appologize that i never update my blog. I really think about it a lot, but after working 6 11 hour shifts in a row, i get a little exhausted. I finally get my day off tomorrow, well it's more today now. 24 ours form now i'll be asleep ready for work the next day! =( I usually get two days off in a week, but I forgot that i told Allison i'd take her shift if she needed me to so she could enjoy her birthday and have her party. So that put me on a six day work week, and it was pretty exhausting because it just so happens that every shift was a Greeter, and 5 out of 6 were training, so yes it will be good money, but i'm beginning to lose my voice again because i've been talking soo much to the guests and training all the new people. I really enjoy training and this new group really proved me wrong. I heard nothing but bad things about them and there were a couple returnies.. and i heard both of them were huge bitches.. but they have all been wonderful and were a treat training them. =) I'm working on trying to become an offical trainer, but who knows? The weather was disgustingly hot and humid again, but yesterday and today we were freezing. Next to no humidity and very cool tempetures, i don't think we hit above 23 C degrees today, it was nice, but thought i needed a sweater. I hope this stays now for good for a few months. Ohh poo, i'm soo sleepy, but i'm going tot make sure i complete a good post. Just thought i'd throw it out there that i'm listening to Jingle Bell Rock!!! <3 Yes, it's November 4th, and Christmas is here at Disney. I havn't seen it yet, but the decorations are now up at the Magic Kingdom. They're all sittting right backstage ready to go up after Thanksgiving at Epcot, but the stores in Epcot were decked up before Halloween was over. It's so exciting, and i think i'm going to have an amazing Christmas this year. It's going to suck a lot to be away from my friend and family.. but i'm also so eager to spend it with all my friends here. Edd & Michelle, they honestly feel like family now. It's killing me to think of what life is going to be with out them in 5 months. Things are coming along well here. Well, sort of. Halloween was so much fun. I didn't do much on the actual day, but just the fall season was a blast. I did Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party three different times. The Parade is soo much fun, Hallowishes is incredible, and all the characters are all dressed up, how and there's pounds and pounds of candy given out! I'm really excited because the Very Merry Christmas Parade cast preview is this Friday, and it's going to be super exciting!! =) It's only cast members only. I did the cast preview of Boo to You Halloween Parade. I've never had so much fun at a parade. The cast in the parade are just so full of energy because they know they're performing to their friends.. and cast of the sidelines are so full of energy screaming and cheering them all on! I've switched me PM to an AM with Brad and i'm going to get there super early so i can get a good spot this time and take tons of pictures.
So the Food & Wine festival is coming to an end this weekend. THANK GOD! I've never been so happy for something to end before. The park is sooo crowded and has resulted in me dropping a keg on my foot, and then the following week.. exact same day and time Allison dropped a keg of her foot! It's cursed i tell you, cursed!!! Hmm.. what else is going on. Ohh Edd and I did the four park challenge a couple weeks ago. We did it while staying at All Star Sports and Music. I had such a blast and had a hard time recouperating from it. I went into work the next day absoulty exhausted and drained. It was weird after having a couple days off. The 4 park Challenge intails hitting all 4 parks in one day, doing 4 of the main rides, meeting 2 characters, getting pictures infront of all the main thingers icon thing..and seeing 1 parade and 1 firework show at any of the 4 parks. It was tuff, but we pulled it off. We met up infront of The Commons Clubhouse at 7:30am, walked to Chatham Square Housing Complex and caught the K bus to the All Star Resort, dropped off all our stuff there and headed out to Animal Kingdom for the opening and we made it. We finished the day at Epcot at 12:00am on the dot. It was a long grueling day that included a crap load of running, pictures and waiting in line. I had soo much fun though. We're try8ing to do another one soon i think. I can't wait.
Okay, i think this is a decent enough update for now. I'm exhausted and would like to get some sleep considering it's 3am.
Also, if you could.. leave a comment on one of my posts if you read this because i'm curious how many of you are actually reading it. I don't care who it is... like your name, but i'm cursious.
Have goodnight everyone!!
&& I'll leave you with the fact that i'm listening/dancing to "I don't Dance" from High School Musical 2. ****Don't judge me, i work for Walt Disney World.!
Sam
xox
Friday, October 23, 2009
4 Park Challenge.
Hey Everyonee!
Please, please don't hate me. I'm going to update and keep posting on here, i promise. I'm super duper tired at the moment, but i promise i'll be back on here tomorrow!
Sam
Please, please don't hate me. I'm going to update and keep posting on here, i promise. I'm super duper tired at the moment, but i promise i'll be back on here tomorrow!
Sam
Saturday, October 10, 2009
It has been wayy to long!
Hey Everyonee!!
So i really appologize for not posting in here very often. Gail has kindly pointed out to me that it's been a month since i've updated, and it's probably nearly a month and a half, so i guess i should update you guys. Alright, so i guess a lot has happened. Edd and i are pretty close, we stay at tons of resorts. We havn't since the beginning of September because his old boss was in town, and then my family was here and then we had crap days off...and now i'm currently at home for a week. So when i get back on Wednesday, we're getting back up and doing it. I beleive the next one we're staying in is the Polynesian Resort right becide Magic Kingdom. I'm super excited because when my family was here we drove by it almost everyday and it looks really nice. I need to make some seirous cash though. I hate that he pays for almost everything and yeah. But i really don't want to go into service, so i'm conflicted. What else? So the main reason why i havn't been writing in here was because i was planning on self terminating, again.. lol but i never ended up doing it. Kaydee, one of my amazing managers talked me out of it, and i'm so happy she did. I've had a great time visiting all my friends and family, but i CANNOT wait to get back to Florida. I'm not ready to be done with Disney, i want a future in the company, i miss all my friends there, and i've remembered why i was so persistant about leaving.
I have soo much that i wanna say, but i'm sooo tired. I'm sure i'm going to have some boring down time over the next couple days..lol so i'll give you a little more of an update.
Goodnight!!
Sam
xox
**BIG SHOUT OUT TO GAIL!!!!!**
So i really appologize for not posting in here very often. Gail has kindly pointed out to me that it's been a month since i've updated, and it's probably nearly a month and a half, so i guess i should update you guys. Alright, so i guess a lot has happened. Edd and i are pretty close, we stay at tons of resorts. We havn't since the beginning of September because his old boss was in town, and then my family was here and then we had crap days off...and now i'm currently at home for a week. So when i get back on Wednesday, we're getting back up and doing it. I beleive the next one we're staying in is the Polynesian Resort right becide Magic Kingdom. I'm super excited because when my family was here we drove by it almost everyday and it looks really nice. I need to make some seirous cash though. I hate that he pays for almost everything and yeah. But i really don't want to go into service, so i'm conflicted. What else? So the main reason why i havn't been writing in here was because i was planning on self terminating, again.. lol but i never ended up doing it. Kaydee, one of my amazing managers talked me out of it, and i'm so happy she did. I've had a great time visiting all my friends and family, but i CANNOT wait to get back to Florida. I'm not ready to be done with Disney, i want a future in the company, i miss all my friends there, and i've remembered why i was so persistant about leaving.
I have soo much that i wanna say, but i'm sooo tired. I'm sure i'm going to have some boring down time over the next couple days..lol so i'll give you a little more of an update.
Goodnight!!
Sam
xox
**BIG SHOUT OUT TO GAIL!!!!!**
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Disney has brainwashed me.
Hey Everyonee!!
Yup, that's right. Disney has successfully brainwashed me and as soon as i come back come either to visit or when my contract is complete you will notice. So i thought i'd share some things that Disney has done to me.
For one, i have to contain myself when i see people smoking in public. The worst is when i'm walking through the outlet mall and i see people smoking in the public area. My first thought is, put it out and find the nearest designated smoking area. It's annoying because i almost go up to them. haha Another is the "Disney Point" when you point to something or anything you use the disney point, which is using your index and middle finger closed together. It's like if you were doing the number 2 with your fingers only they're tight becide each other, together. I can't point the other way now. Another big one that really gets me is wearing your costume in public. According to Disney we are not allowed to be dressed in our costume anywhere other then our apartments, the bus, on stage and back stage. And when i'm on stage you must be in the Disney look. (Costume show ready) It kills me when i'm in publix and i see the cashiers still in thier uniforms shopping after they're off. And the thing is, i used to do it all the time are the bay.
Ohh well. So i thought i'd share some brainwashing things.
Have a good night everyone.
Sam
xox
Yup, that's right. Disney has successfully brainwashed me and as soon as i come back come either to visit or when my contract is complete you will notice. So i thought i'd share some things that Disney has done to me.
For one, i have to contain myself when i see people smoking in public. The worst is when i'm walking through the outlet mall and i see people smoking in the public area. My first thought is, put it out and find the nearest designated smoking area. It's annoying because i almost go up to them. haha Another is the "Disney Point" when you point to something or anything you use the disney point, which is using your index and middle finger closed together. It's like if you were doing the number 2 with your fingers only they're tight becide each other, together. I can't point the other way now. Another big one that really gets me is wearing your costume in public. According to Disney we are not allowed to be dressed in our costume anywhere other then our apartments, the bus, on stage and back stage. And when i'm on stage you must be in the Disney look. (Costume show ready) It kills me when i'm in publix and i see the cashiers still in thier uniforms shopping after they're off. And the thing is, i used to do it all the time are the bay.
Ohh well. So i thought i'd share some brainwashing things.
Have a good night everyone.
Sam
xox
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Failed my spiel!
Hey Everyonee!!
So, yeah i failed my spiel today. I'm a tad disapointed, but i'm also just happy that it's done. I'm still studying lots, and working my but off.. but i don't know. I'm hoping to re-spiel to Jeff by Thursday or Friday next week. He asked sooo many questions, i was soo nervous and there was just some things i didn't know. I'm trying to study and memorize EVERY item slowly one at a time, so hopfully i'll be able to pass next time.
Don't have much else to say other then going to the resort this weekend with edd again.
I'll let you know how ir goes.
Talk to you soon.
Sam
xox
So, yeah i failed my spiel today. I'm a tad disapointed, but i'm also just happy that it's done. I'm still studying lots, and working my but off.. but i don't know. I'm hoping to re-spiel to Jeff by Thursday or Friday next week. He asked sooo many questions, i was soo nervous and there was just some things i didn't know. I'm trying to study and memorize EVERY item slowly one at a time, so hopfully i'll be able to pass next time.
Don't have much else to say other then going to the resort this weekend with edd again.
I'll let you know how ir goes.
Talk to you soon.
Sam
xox
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Back from vacation!
Hey everyonee!
So unfortunatly, i'm sad to say that i've returned home from my vacation. Not to confuse this with going home home like to Victoria. I just took a small vacation with Edd to a couple resorts for the weekend and now i'm back to work and the worst of them all, the commons! It's 3:00am, still need to unpack. Spent most of the evening after work uploading pictures and discussing with Edd how cheap our next resort is. I love getting 50% off resort rates! Definatly a great perk of being a cast member.
Edd and I stayed at Coranado Springs Resort on Sunday night. We had such a blast. We ended up getting there around 6:00pm or so, checked in.. went to their food court area for dinner, ate which was an experience. Edd tried to order a beer, but they denied him because he was using his Drivers License from the UK, which apprently isn't allowed, even though we accept it at Epcot. Anyways, he ended up speaking to the manager and got his beer, but found it quite annoying. So after dinner we wandered around the resort, looking for the hidden mickeys and taking pictures. We went back to our room to get ready to head off to the Magic Kingdom Extra Magic Hours. It was really fun, and i'm glad we took advantage of them, but really wished we spent more time at the resort. We did a lot of fun rides and some random things we've never done before. We stayed until it was closing at 1:00am. And actually believe it or not, when we were standing in line for the bus back to the resort there was this really obnoxious family from New York that kept making comments that were really uncalled for. Anyways, turns out they were eating in the restraunt.
So this post was deleted randomly ..or i guess i should say my laptop shut off randomly and i'm just picking up from where i left off. Anyways.. so the resorts are absolutly fantastic and i can't wait to stay in Port Orleans Riverside this weekend! It's going to be so much fun!
So unfortunatly, i'm sad to say that i've returned home from my vacation. Not to confuse this with going home home like to Victoria. I just took a small vacation with Edd to a couple resorts for the weekend and now i'm back to work and the worst of them all, the commons! It's 3:00am, still need to unpack. Spent most of the evening after work uploading pictures and discussing with Edd how cheap our next resort is. I love getting 50% off resort rates! Definatly a great perk of being a cast member.
Edd and I stayed at Coranado Springs Resort on Sunday night. We had such a blast. We ended up getting there around 6:00pm or so, checked in.. went to their food court area for dinner, ate which was an experience. Edd tried to order a beer, but they denied him because he was using his Drivers License from the UK, which apprently isn't allowed, even though we accept it at Epcot. Anyways, he ended up speaking to the manager and got his beer, but found it quite annoying. So after dinner we wandered around the resort, looking for the hidden mickeys and taking pictures. We went back to our room to get ready to head off to the Magic Kingdom Extra Magic Hours. It was really fun, and i'm glad we took advantage of them, but really wished we spent more time at the resort. We did a lot of fun rides and some random things we've never done before. We stayed until it was closing at 1:00am. And actually believe it or not, when we were standing in line for the bus back to the resort there was this really obnoxious family from New York that kept making comments that were really uncalled for. Anyways, turns out they were eating in the restraunt.
So this post was deleted randomly ..or i guess i should say my laptop shut off randomly and i'm just picking up from where i left off. Anyways.. so the resorts are absolutly fantastic and i can't wait to stay in Port Orleans Riverside this weekend! It's going to be so much fun!
Friday, August 21, 2009
Spieling today and my god i'm nervous
Hey Everyonee!
So i've been studying like a mad man since 7:00pm and it's 2:20am. I think seven hours is pretty respectable. But not good enough. I still don't know what i need to know. So for you who don't know, Jeff came up to me today and was like, so have you spieled yet? And of course i said no, i bugged Linda and Janice everyday last week to post a spiel sheet but they never did. So he said spiel to me right now. I just laughed and said no. And he was like well then tomorrow morning - i'm opening manager. And i was like noo way, i'm not ready. Then all the servers started crowding around and just starred at me and kept saying you can do it.. do it... and i was ahhh fuck, fine! So now i have the entire menu to learn tonight! It sucks. I'm exhausted, i'v been up since 8:00am and am slowly moving closer to 24 hours. Ohh and i have to spiel at 10am, and i don't work until 11:30am..and i work until 9:30pm. So tomorrow is going to be basically 11 freakin hours. Soo not looking forward to it. And with NOO sleep. UGhhh! lol DOn't get me wrong, i'm realy happy Jeff, Janice, and Linda are pushing me so much to get into service. It makes me think they acutally believe in me and can see me doing it. But i don't know, tonight had just been crazy. So i thought i'd share it.
P.s- I meant to say that i really suck at my titles and then never talking about them. lol
My last post was about Cast Appreciation Day. Well yesterday was it. In World Showplace which is just next door to Canada and it's basically a huge events centre for cast events and some things for guests. They had this huge free buffet for us and it was all this food from around the world (epcot) and oh my god, it was sooo good! They had a huge stage with a very lonley but hilarious DJ and Mickey and Minnie were there and would consistantly switch it up with Goofy Donald and Pluto. Had soo much fun. Ohh and they also had this amazingly huge discount store for us. Everything was 70% off!! Crazyyy! I enjoyed it and appreciated the fact that Disney takes care of their cast members! The Bay would never do that! lol
There's not much else to update on. I'm extremly exhausted and just need like a 15 minute break from spieling and mixing up my words. It feel like the good ol days of school. lol
Ohh one last thing, today is my 4 month anniversery! Can't believe it's been this long so soon!! Crazy how time flys! And my family is coming in a month!! So freakin excited.
Anyways,
Have a good night. If i'm not too exhausted tomorrow then i'll tell you how my spiel went and if i passed or failed.
Sam
xox
So i've been studying like a mad man since 7:00pm and it's 2:20am. I think seven hours is pretty respectable. But not good enough. I still don't know what i need to know. So for you who don't know, Jeff came up to me today and was like, so have you spieled yet? And of course i said no, i bugged Linda and Janice everyday last week to post a spiel sheet but they never did. So he said spiel to me right now. I just laughed and said no. And he was like well then tomorrow morning - i'm opening manager. And i was like noo way, i'm not ready. Then all the servers started crowding around and just starred at me and kept saying you can do it.. do it... and i was ahhh fuck, fine! So now i have the entire menu to learn tonight! It sucks. I'm exhausted, i'v been up since 8:00am and am slowly moving closer to 24 hours. Ohh and i have to spiel at 10am, and i don't work until 11:30am..and i work until 9:30pm. So tomorrow is going to be basically 11 freakin hours. Soo not looking forward to it. And with NOO sleep. UGhhh! lol DOn't get me wrong, i'm realy happy Jeff, Janice, and Linda are pushing me so much to get into service. It makes me think they acutally believe in me and can see me doing it. But i don't know, tonight had just been crazy. So i thought i'd share it.
P.s- I meant to say that i really suck at my titles and then never talking about them. lol
My last post was about Cast Appreciation Day. Well yesterday was it. In World Showplace which is just next door to Canada and it's basically a huge events centre for cast events and some things for guests. They had this huge free buffet for us and it was all this food from around the world (epcot) and oh my god, it was sooo good! They had a huge stage with a very lonley but hilarious DJ and Mickey and Minnie were there and would consistantly switch it up with Goofy Donald and Pluto. Had soo much fun. Ohh and they also had this amazingly huge discount store for us. Everything was 70% off!! Crazyyy! I enjoyed it and appreciated the fact that Disney takes care of their cast members! The Bay would never do that! lol
There's not much else to update on. I'm extremly exhausted and just need like a 15 minute break from spieling and mixing up my words. It feel like the good ol days of school. lol
Ohh one last thing, today is my 4 month anniversery! Can't believe it's been this long so soon!! Crazy how time flys! And my family is coming in a month!! So freakin excited.
Anyways,
Have a good night. If i'm not too exhausted tomorrow then i'll tell you how my spiel went and if i passed or failed.
Sam
xox
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Cast Appreciation Day
Hey Everyonee!!
How are we doing?? lol, my roommate Michelle and i are discussing how much better Disneyland is to Walt Disney World. haha Anyways, so i'm trying to think what's new with me. Well we've had a really big part of are pavillion leave yesterday. Tyler who is like "DISNEY" right there. You think of anything Disney and he's it. I don't really know how to understand it, but he's like the perfect cast member and has changed so many cast members lives here. I'm going to miss him a lot. He passed me down a mini popcorn maker at his throw out because when he started, he was obsessed with popcorn and loved it to death, and i was like that too. So he gave me the popcorn award. haha i thought it was cute.
What else has happened? Well we had a throw in yesterday which was interesting as always. The newbies seem pretty cool and i'm excited to get to know them. I didn't have a good time last night though. I just didn't want to be around anyone, i was in a really strange mood. Well i'm hoping this weekend will make things better.
I'm staying in two different resorts with Edd. We're staying in Coronado Springs on Sunday to Monday and then Saratoga Springs from Monday to Tuesday and then i work at 2:00pm on Tuesday. Should be good times. I'm excited to just lay in the sun and enjoy the sun and stress free weekend away from the commons.
Well it's 2:10am and i work at 11am so i should be heading to bed.
Have a great day/night!!
Goodnight
Sam
xox
How are we doing?? lol, my roommate Michelle and i are discussing how much better Disneyland is to Walt Disney World. haha Anyways, so i'm trying to think what's new with me. Well we've had a really big part of are pavillion leave yesterday. Tyler who is like "DISNEY" right there. You think of anything Disney and he's it. I don't really know how to understand it, but he's like the perfect cast member and has changed so many cast members lives here. I'm going to miss him a lot. He passed me down a mini popcorn maker at his throw out because when he started, he was obsessed with popcorn and loved it to death, and i was like that too. So he gave me the popcorn award. haha i thought it was cute.
What else has happened? Well we had a throw in yesterday which was interesting as always. The newbies seem pretty cool and i'm excited to get to know them. I didn't have a good time last night though. I just didn't want to be around anyone, i was in a really strange mood. Well i'm hoping this weekend will make things better.
I'm staying in two different resorts with Edd. We're staying in Coronado Springs on Sunday to Monday and then Saratoga Springs from Monday to Tuesday and then i work at 2:00pm on Tuesday. Should be good times. I'm excited to just lay in the sun and enjoy the sun and stress free weekend away from the commons.
Well it's 2:10am and i work at 11am so i should be heading to bed.
Have a great day/night!!
Goodnight
Sam
xox
Friday, August 14, 2009
Hello Humans!!!
Hey Everyonee!
So, life in Florida is going pretty well for me. I'm on a six day work week at the moment because Robyn self terminated herself, so Daniel was forced into taking one of her shifts and he was complaining about how he wanted his 3 days off all together so i just took it from him, which at the end means my 8.5 hour shift tomorrow is all overtime! =) Yay me. haha
But honestly, things are going quite well. I'm doing a lot with people - despite me needing to study. I've moved back into my actual apartment and out of Nykki's, so i'm getting along with Michelle and all my others and work is going well. I'm working my but off when i'm at work, which is making the day go by so fast and then i'll do something in the evening which makes it go by fast and then next thing i know it's 2 or 3 am. So it's a crazy life i lead. lol
Trying to think of some interesting things to share. Oh yeah, about a week and a half ago when Courtney & I were working the popcorn cart this old man came up to us and started doing this Donald Duck impression, and i was just flabbergasted(sp?) because he was so good, and we were telling him and he was like, well i'm actually one of the 4 guys who do the voice for the commercials or something movies. He was super cool and i can't believe i got to meet a voice of Donald Duck. Ohh and today this family from Surrey, BC came and we were chatting for a while talking about the program and such aswell as Victoria and BC. Ohh how i miss it!! =(
Alrighty, well i should be off to go study my menu. I have culinary day tomorrow and the chef's are going to grill me! Eeek!
Take Caree everyonee!
Sam
xox
So, life in Florida is going pretty well for me. I'm on a six day work week at the moment because Robyn self terminated herself, so Daniel was forced into taking one of her shifts and he was complaining about how he wanted his 3 days off all together so i just took it from him, which at the end means my 8.5 hour shift tomorrow is all overtime! =) Yay me. haha
But honestly, things are going quite well. I'm doing a lot with people - despite me needing to study. I've moved back into my actual apartment and out of Nykki's, so i'm getting along with Michelle and all my others and work is going well. I'm working my but off when i'm at work, which is making the day go by so fast and then i'll do something in the evening which makes it go by fast and then next thing i know it's 2 or 3 am. So it's a crazy life i lead. lol
Trying to think of some interesting things to share. Oh yeah, about a week and a half ago when Courtney & I were working the popcorn cart this old man came up to us and started doing this Donald Duck impression, and i was just flabbergasted(sp?) because he was so good, and we were telling him and he was like, well i'm actually one of the 4 guys who do the voice for the commercials or something movies. He was super cool and i can't believe i got to meet a voice of Donald Duck. Ohh and today this family from Surrey, BC came and we were chatting for a while talking about the program and such aswell as Victoria and BC. Ohh how i miss it!! =(
Alrighty, well i should be off to go study my menu. I have culinary day tomorrow and the chef's are going to grill me! Eeek!
Take Caree everyonee!
Sam
xox
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Let the hot days begin!
Hey Everyonee!!
So we're now entering the hottest month in Florida, and i'm still alive. and still working popcorn, believe it or not! Things are going very well here. I'm loving every minute of it and still making more and more friends that i'm sure i'll have forever. Actually a few days ago when i was stocker on popcorn and Illuminations was on, i was watching it and i could think about was how fast this is going and how little time i have left. I leave in 8 months. It's crazy how time is flying. Can't beelieve i got a little sad about that though.
Anyways, so i met this girl, she's one of the newest arrivals and she works in Canada - attractions. Her names Michelle, and she's such a sweet heart. We hung out al sunday together going to Hollywood Studios in the day time and then Magic Kingdom at night. I had a lot of fun and can't wait to do it again. I'm having a lot of fun at work now - i think it's because i'm in the higher end of seignurity now, which of course is awesome. The managers seem to respect me more and i'm studying my menu to go into service. So life is good! My family comes in i think like 43 days now, and my flight home for a visit is in 56 days, so good things are coming!
I don't really have much else to say.
Take Caree
Sam
xox
So we're now entering the hottest month in Florida, and i'm still alive. and still working popcorn, believe it or not! Things are going very well here. I'm loving every minute of it and still making more and more friends that i'm sure i'll have forever. Actually a few days ago when i was stocker on popcorn and Illuminations was on, i was watching it and i could think about was how fast this is going and how little time i have left. I leave in 8 months. It's crazy how time is flying. Can't beelieve i got a little sad about that though.
Anyways, so i met this girl, she's one of the newest arrivals and she works in Canada - attractions. Her names Michelle, and she's such a sweet heart. We hung out al sunday together going to Hollywood Studios in the day time and then Magic Kingdom at night. I had a lot of fun and can't wait to do it again. I'm having a lot of fun at work now - i think it's because i'm in the higher end of seignurity now, which of course is awesome. The managers seem to respect me more and i'm studying my menu to go into service. So life is good! My family comes in i think like 43 days now, and my flight home for a visit is in 56 days, so good things are coming!
I don't really have much else to say.
Take Caree
Sam
xox
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Schedule
SUNDAY 9: OFF
MONDAY 10: 11:00-6:30pm (Popcorn)
TUESDAY 11: 2:00-9:00pm (Restraunt Stocker)
WEDNESDAY 12: 1:45-8:45pm (Seater)
THURSDAY 13: 11:00-6:00pm (Greeter)
FRIDAY 14: OFF
SATURDAY 15: 12:00-8:30pm (Culinary)
MONDAY 10: 11:00-6:30pm (Popcorn)
TUESDAY 11: 2:00-9:00pm (Restraunt Stocker)
WEDNESDAY 12: 1:45-8:45pm (Seater)
THURSDAY 13: 11:00-6:00pm (Greeter)
FRIDAY 14: OFF
SATURDAY 15: 12:00-8:30pm (Culinary)
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Throw In & Lots of Pictures
Hey Everyonee!!
Okay, so i'm super, super tired and well lots of other things that i can't mention on here, so i'm going to make it quick. The time is flying by like crazy. It was about 2 weeks ago when i thought i was seriously dieing.. but things are going a lot better now, and i'm partying quite a bit more. I'm meeting some great people down here and they're all slowly becoming my family! We had a throw in tonight at my apartment, which was a lot of fun. There were 3 new arrivals. Barry, Rachel, and i can't remember the other girls name, i really wanna say Irene. Anyways, they seem really cool and i'm excited to get to know them a little bit more in the coming months. It's crazy to say that i've been here almost 3.5 months!! I look around and i'm starting to be one of the older ones, which is just so crazy to me. I'm not an offical trainer yet, but they have me down for two training shifts next week, so it should be exciting. I also talked to Jeff tonight to ask for a culinary day. So i'll get that done so i can get into service. I'm starting to do nothing my learn/study and practice my menu. I'm excited to make some serious cash!
So i'm going to leave you now because i work at 1:30pm and i want to get SOME sleep. =)
Here's some pictures from the past month or so!!
Have a great night!!!
Sam
xox
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=278648&id=647590552&l=9b5849311f
EPCOT on July 5th 2009
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=279245&id=647590552&l=42ff764a0a
Magic Kingdom - July 6th 2009
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=281336&id=647590552&l=99413a1b6b
So, i bought a new camera
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=281611&id=647590552&l=4d8131c525
Illuminations from Japan
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=283015&id=647590552&l=df7351bab1
You didn't drive us home, so we went to Magic Kingdom
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=287746&id=647590552&l=7797d600fc
Christmas part in JULY
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=288857&id=647590552&l=2aa6c38e4d
Spectro Magic Parade
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=278929&id=647590552&l=7ad3868ab9
Random Moments of July
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=289602&id=647590552&l=f0354edc72
Canadian Throw In - July 29th 2009
Okay, so i'm super, super tired and well lots of other things that i can't mention on here, so i'm going to make it quick. The time is flying by like crazy. It was about 2 weeks ago when i thought i was seriously dieing.. but things are going a lot better now, and i'm partying quite a bit more. I'm meeting some great people down here and they're all slowly becoming my family! We had a throw in tonight at my apartment, which was a lot of fun. There were 3 new arrivals. Barry, Rachel, and i can't remember the other girls name, i really wanna say Irene. Anyways, they seem really cool and i'm excited to get to know them a little bit more in the coming months. It's crazy to say that i've been here almost 3.5 months!! I look around and i'm starting to be one of the older ones, which is just so crazy to me. I'm not an offical trainer yet, but they have me down for two training shifts next week, so it should be exciting. I also talked to Jeff tonight to ask for a culinary day. So i'll get that done so i can get into service. I'm starting to do nothing my learn/study and practice my menu. I'm excited to make some serious cash!
So i'm going to leave you now because i work at 1:30pm and i want to get SOME sleep. =)
Here's some pictures from the past month or so!!
Have a great night!!!
Sam
xox
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=278648&id=647590552&l=9b5849311f
EPCOT on July 5th 2009
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=279245&id=647590552&l=42ff764a0a
Magic Kingdom - July 6th 2009
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=281336&id=647590552&l=99413a1b6b
So, i bought a new camera
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=281611&id=647590552&l=4d8131c525
Illuminations from Japan
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=283015&id=647590552&l=df7351bab1
You didn't drive us home, so we went to Magic Kingdom
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=287746&id=647590552&l=7797d600fc
Christmas part in JULY
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=288857&id=647590552&l=2aa6c38e4d
Spectro Magic Parade
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=278929&id=647590552&l=7ad3868ab9
Random Moments of July
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=289602&id=647590552&l=f0354edc72
Canadian Throw In - July 29th 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Schedule
So i'm going to post my schedule up here every Monday, but it will always have the week that week and following one on it.
SUNDAY 26: OFF
MONDAY 27: OFF
TUESDAY 28: 3:30-11:30pm (popcorn)
WEDNESDAY 29: 2:00-9:00pm (restraunt stocker)
THURSDAY 30: 11:30-6:30pm (seater)
FRIDAY 31: 4:30-10:30pm (popcorn)
SATURDAY 1: 11:00-6:30pm (popcorn)
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SUNDAY 2: OFF
MONDAY 3: OFF
TUESDAY 4: 2:00-10:00pm (popcorn)
WEDNESDAY 5: 11:00-5:00pm (seater)
THURSDAY 6: 11:30-6:30pm (seater)
FRIDAY 7: 2:30-10:30pm (training on popcorn)
SATURDAY 8: 11:30-5:30pm (seater)
SUNDAY 26: OFF
MONDAY 27: OFF
TUESDAY 28: 3:30-11:30pm (popcorn)
WEDNESDAY 29: 2:00-9:00pm (restraunt stocker)
THURSDAY 30: 11:30-6:30pm (seater)
FRIDAY 31: 4:30-10:30pm (popcorn)
SATURDAY 1: 11:00-6:30pm (popcorn)
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SUNDAY 2: OFF
MONDAY 3: OFF
TUESDAY 4: 2:00-10:00pm (popcorn)
WEDNESDAY 5: 11:00-5:00pm (seater)
THURSDAY 6: 11:30-6:30pm (seater)
FRIDAY 7: 2:30-10:30pm (training on popcorn)
SATURDAY 8: 11:30-5:30pm (seater)
Favorite Memory
Hey Everyonee!
I was just lying in bed, yes...it's 1:30pm, and i'm still in bed. lol
I'm not sleeping, i'm just thinking about things and reflecting on my time here so far, and i was thinking about my favorite memory. I have a couple, but the one that stands out the most happened in the beginning on my journey. It was a week or so after i arrived and we had traditions and then so many training days where we had to dress nicely and i had nothing to wear, so even though we only had one more fancy day left i went out and bought something. I think the gang (AJ, David, Edd, Sophie, Graeme, Alex and I) were all at McDonalds or something and were walking back through the Outlet Mall and i said i was going to stay back and look for something to wear to Discovery Day the following day. David ended up staying because he didn't want me to walk through the car park by myself.. so Edd and Graeme ended up staying. It was so much fun. We went around trying to find something for me to wear. And i just remember being at Tommy Hilfigure and i went up to Graeme and Edd and said what do you think? And i think it was a really bright yellow shirt and they both at the exact same time put their sunglasses on and maintained a straight face. It was hilarious. We also went to Banana Republic and got into a really great conversation with one of the sales associates, but of course David and Graeme were playing it up.
I don't know, that thought just caught my attention and i wanted to share it with everyone. Of course i have lots of great memories,
one of them isn't so much a memory as just a time.. whenever Edd and I go to Magic Kingdom at night time. We have this routine, and not even Michelle can keep up to it. We rarley watch Wishes together because we're rushing so much to just get a good spot. We go around 8pm ish.. and we try ti hit Big Thunder Mountain (Rocky Mountain), the laugh floor, phillar magic, splash mountain (soak mountain), so reason always get stuck somewhere seeing the annoying FISH/MERMAID part of Spectro Magic, go on aladdin's magic carpet ride and occasionally do the Jungle Cruise, get fast passes for BIg Thunder, run over and watch Wishes, go on Thunder Mountain, come over just in time to see Spectro Magic and buy popcorn from the slow asian guy, (i'll usually storm off because there's ignorant people standing in line and i don't want to miss the beginning on Spectro with those fully doll people with the horns. lmao.. but then i'll come back and Edd will hold my spot), we'll watch it.. getting key points, Peter Pan, Gig Bad Wolf (where i'll pull his hand because he keeps playing games with me), watching Edd mimick one of the three pigs!, seeing Mickey Mouse with the globe, watching the flimingos fight on the float, laughing hysterically at the FISH part of the parade and then seeing Minnie Mouse at the end and giving Pluto a big high five!! Then we race over and and get on Thunder before everyone else gets there.. request the very back seat, flirt with some of the cast members *JOKING*.. but not really. getting off and using our fast passes and going on it again, and keep going on it until 12am or park close, then saunter down to main street. Eat a hotdog at Casey's corner.. and loiter around. The we head into EMPORIUM the big store on main street and just brouse(sp?) around until we're the last ones in the store finally after i've spent like an hour deciding whether or not to get something. Then we leave the store and this is after the park has been closed for like an hour. We sit in the big cirlce and make fun of all the managers and disney security trying to poiltly get everyone out of the park. There's usually like 3 guests left and then us. We try to stay until we're the last one, leave.. and catch the monorail to the ticket trans centre and then wait forever to catch the A bus home. Then we crash and do it all over again. lol
I've had some good times so far. Loved it!
That's it for now. Going to go get ready to go out. Might go to Hollywood Studios tonight.
Talk to you laterr
Sam
xox
I was just lying in bed, yes...it's 1:30pm, and i'm still in bed. lol
I'm not sleeping, i'm just thinking about things and reflecting on my time here so far, and i was thinking about my favorite memory. I have a couple, but the one that stands out the most happened in the beginning on my journey. It was a week or so after i arrived and we had traditions and then so many training days where we had to dress nicely and i had nothing to wear, so even though we only had one more fancy day left i went out and bought something. I think the gang (AJ, David, Edd, Sophie, Graeme, Alex and I) were all at McDonalds or something and were walking back through the Outlet Mall and i said i was going to stay back and look for something to wear to Discovery Day the following day. David ended up staying because he didn't want me to walk through the car park by myself.. so Edd and Graeme ended up staying. It was so much fun. We went around trying to find something for me to wear. And i just remember being at Tommy Hilfigure and i went up to Graeme and Edd and said what do you think? And i think it was a really bright yellow shirt and they both at the exact same time put their sunglasses on and maintained a straight face. It was hilarious. We also went to Banana Republic and got into a really great conversation with one of the sales associates, but of course David and Graeme were playing it up.
I don't know, that thought just caught my attention and i wanted to share it with everyone. Of course i have lots of great memories,
one of them isn't so much a memory as just a time.. whenever Edd and I go to Magic Kingdom at night time. We have this routine, and not even Michelle can keep up to it. We rarley watch Wishes together because we're rushing so much to just get a good spot. We go around 8pm ish.. and we try ti hit Big Thunder Mountain (Rocky Mountain), the laugh floor, phillar magic, splash mountain (soak mountain), so reason always get stuck somewhere seeing the annoying FISH/MERMAID part of Spectro Magic, go on aladdin's magic carpet ride and occasionally do the Jungle Cruise, get fast passes for BIg Thunder, run over and watch Wishes, go on Thunder Mountain, come over just in time to see Spectro Magic and buy popcorn from the slow asian guy, (i'll usually storm off because there's ignorant people standing in line and i don't want to miss the beginning on Spectro with those fully doll people with the horns. lmao.. but then i'll come back and Edd will hold my spot), we'll watch it.. getting key points, Peter Pan, Gig Bad Wolf (where i'll pull his hand because he keeps playing games with me), watching Edd mimick one of the three pigs!, seeing Mickey Mouse with the globe, watching the flimingos fight on the float, laughing hysterically at the FISH part of the parade and then seeing Minnie Mouse at the end and giving Pluto a big high five!! Then we race over and and get on Thunder before everyone else gets there.. request the very back seat, flirt with some of the cast members *JOKING*.. but not really. getting off and using our fast passes and going on it again, and keep going on it until 12am or park close, then saunter down to main street. Eat a hotdog at Casey's corner.. and loiter around. The we head into EMPORIUM the big store on main street and just brouse(sp?) around until we're the last ones in the store finally after i've spent like an hour deciding whether or not to get something. Then we leave the store and this is after the park has been closed for like an hour. We sit in the big cirlce and make fun of all the managers and disney security trying to poiltly get everyone out of the park. There's usually like 3 guests left and then us. We try to stay until we're the last one, leave.. and catch the monorail to the ticket trans centre and then wait forever to catch the A bus home. Then we crash and do it all over again. lol
I've had some good times so far. Loved it!
That's it for now. Going to go get ready to go out. Might go to Hollywood Studios tonight.
Talk to you laterr
Sam
xox
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Hardest week of my life
Hey Everyonee!
So yes, as the title explains it, this past week and a half has been one of the hardest in my life. I lost my voice, which has never happened before, i woke up every morning and just cried and cried and cried until i went to work. I felt scared to be living in the United States. I'm not sure what was going on with me. All i wanted to do was just be home. (Canada)
I'm getting a lot better, and finally have my voice back. And the homesickness isn't as bad as it was. Things are going a little better here, but not perfect obviously.
But they're moving along and i'm just constantly thinking about when my family comes to visit. Which is in 59 days! They're coming for a week, and then a week later i'm going home for a visit, so those are the only things that are pretty much on my mind.
I finally went to the clinic yesterday, and they said i didn't really need antibiotics anymore, but do just keep being cautious and take care of myself, which i'm doing. Drinking lots of apple juice everyday, probable not eating the way i should.. getting a decent amount of sleep and not using my voice an incredible amount.
I was supposed to go to Miami this weekend with Jo, but i think she pretty much backed out. I didn't hear from her, and then saw that she had plans today, so i was like whatever.. i'll just stay in the boring commons all weekend. Blahh i hate the commons. I really wanna move to Patterson! But i think it costs $100 + the $50.00 i still havn't paid for my first move.
The Commons is jsut too gross. I swear i'm going to get some disease from them. Patterson is so much nicer and cleaner and there's no one living there, so it's not as busy, not as many parties. =)
So i have 4 days off. I'm on day 2, and bored as hell. There's a Christmas party in July i'm going to tonight, which i'm excited for. That should be fun. And then games night is on Monday. So i just have to think of some other things to do. I'm trying to go to the parks more often.
I went to Epcot in the morning and afternoon yesterday. Went on Sorin and did the Canada movie, said Hi to some people. It was fun, i enjoyed it. I don't have many plans for today. I woke up around 9am.. went out on the couch and tried to sleep until 11ish... watched some tv and poked around online for a bit.. and i've just kinda done that since. I have nothing to do, and it's boring going to the parks by yourself. Although i may go see the 3:00 parade tomorrow at Magic Kingdom, because i havn't seen it yet, and i'm dieing too! It's just sooo hot out! lol
I am having a hard time with everything though. I'm crazy, crazy homesick!
I should get going though. I was thinking of running to Publix and buying some shampoo & conditioner with what little money i have left. The clinic sucked most of it out. Can't believe it costs someone who has insurance $60.00 to see a bloody doctor.
I will chat to you all later.
Have a good day!!
Sam
xox
Ohh.. and again if you need/want my schedule its as follows:
SUNDAY 26: OFF
MONDAY 27: OFF
TUESDAY 28: 3:30-11:30pm (popcorn)
WEDNESDAY 29: 2:00-9:00pm (restraunt stocker)
THURSDAY 30: 11:30-6:30pm (seater)
FRIDAY 31: 4:30-10:30pm (popcorn)
SATURDAY 1: 11:00-6:30pm (popcorn)
Not my favorite kind of week.. ohh well. I'll make do.
So yes, as the title explains it, this past week and a half has been one of the hardest in my life. I lost my voice, which has never happened before, i woke up every morning and just cried and cried and cried until i went to work. I felt scared to be living in the United States. I'm not sure what was going on with me. All i wanted to do was just be home. (Canada)
I'm getting a lot better, and finally have my voice back. And the homesickness isn't as bad as it was. Things are going a little better here, but not perfect obviously.
But they're moving along and i'm just constantly thinking about when my family comes to visit. Which is in 59 days! They're coming for a week, and then a week later i'm going home for a visit, so those are the only things that are pretty much on my mind.
I finally went to the clinic yesterday, and they said i didn't really need antibiotics anymore, but do just keep being cautious and take care of myself, which i'm doing. Drinking lots of apple juice everyday, probable not eating the way i should.. getting a decent amount of sleep and not using my voice an incredible amount.
I was supposed to go to Miami this weekend with Jo, but i think she pretty much backed out. I didn't hear from her, and then saw that she had plans today, so i was like whatever.. i'll just stay in the boring commons all weekend. Blahh i hate the commons. I really wanna move to Patterson! But i think it costs $100 + the $50.00 i still havn't paid for my first move.
The Commons is jsut too gross. I swear i'm going to get some disease from them. Patterson is so much nicer and cleaner and there's no one living there, so it's not as busy, not as many parties. =)
So i have 4 days off. I'm on day 2, and bored as hell. There's a Christmas party in July i'm going to tonight, which i'm excited for. That should be fun. And then games night is on Monday. So i just have to think of some other things to do. I'm trying to go to the parks more often.
I went to Epcot in the morning and afternoon yesterday. Went on Sorin and did the Canada movie, said Hi to some people. It was fun, i enjoyed it. I don't have many plans for today. I woke up around 9am.. went out on the couch and tried to sleep until 11ish... watched some tv and poked around online for a bit.. and i've just kinda done that since. I have nothing to do, and it's boring going to the parks by yourself. Although i may go see the 3:00 parade tomorrow at Magic Kingdom, because i havn't seen it yet, and i'm dieing too! It's just sooo hot out! lol
I am having a hard time with everything though. I'm crazy, crazy homesick!
I should get going though. I was thinking of running to Publix and buying some shampoo & conditioner with what little money i have left. The clinic sucked most of it out. Can't believe it costs someone who has insurance $60.00 to see a bloody doctor.
I will chat to you all later.
Have a good day!!
Sam
xox
Ohh.. and again if you need/want my schedule its as follows:
SUNDAY 26: OFF
MONDAY 27: OFF
TUESDAY 28: 3:30-11:30pm (popcorn)
WEDNESDAY 29: 2:00-9:00pm (restraunt stocker)
THURSDAY 30: 11:30-6:30pm (seater)
FRIDAY 31: 4:30-10:30pm (popcorn)
SATURDAY 1: 11:00-6:30pm (popcorn)
Not my favorite kind of week.. ohh well. I'll make do.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Sick, again.
Hey Everyonee!!
So I'm sorry it's been forever since i've really updated. The internet has been annoying due to the storms we keep getting. The lighting constantly strikes and causes the internet to crash. Anyways, i'm hooked up via internet cable, so all is well again.
So of course, guess what?? I'm sick as a dog again. I have no clue what i have, other then a cold. I called in sick twice at the beginning of the week, but managed to pick up a shift for today to make up for some of it. =) I have a bad cough, pretty much lost my voice at work. Lol, i went up to Kaydee and Robyn and honestly couldn't talk to save my life. But i managed to get it back in time to seat the next table. My paycheque next week is going to be crap, but ohh well. There's not much more i can do. lol Things are going betterish here. I don't really know. Michelle, my new roommate and i fight all the time, which is getting tiring and i'm pretty sick of avoiding her.
Hmm.. ohh yeah, my family is coming to visit on September 21st!!! I'm really excited about that, because i'm dying to see some people i actually know. I keep think i'm seeing people, which i know it's all in my head. Another good thing is, i'm planning on spieling next week, so that's exciting! It's weird, all of a sudden all the managers and some of the servers are treating me differently. I don't know if it's because i've been here for 3 months now and i've crossed some barrier, but it's nice. It's almost like i've earned their respect or something.
Anyways, that's really it for now. So i'm going to lye on the couch for an hour and relax and then studying the menu some more.
P.s - My schedule is as follows:
SUNDAY 19: 11:00-6:30pm (Popcorn)
MONDAY 20: 4:00-1:00am (Popcorn)
TURSDAY 21: 1:30-9:00pm (Popcorn)
WEDNESDAY 22: 4:15-10:15pm (Greeter)
THURSDAY 23: 4:30-12:00am (Popcorn)
FRIDAY 24: OFF
SATURDAY 25: OFF
Take Caree
Sam
xox
So I'm sorry it's been forever since i've really updated. The internet has been annoying due to the storms we keep getting. The lighting constantly strikes and causes the internet to crash. Anyways, i'm hooked up via internet cable, so all is well again.
So of course, guess what?? I'm sick as a dog again. I have no clue what i have, other then a cold. I called in sick twice at the beginning of the week, but managed to pick up a shift for today to make up for some of it. =) I have a bad cough, pretty much lost my voice at work. Lol, i went up to Kaydee and Robyn and honestly couldn't talk to save my life. But i managed to get it back in time to seat the next table. My paycheque next week is going to be crap, but ohh well. There's not much more i can do. lol Things are going betterish here. I don't really know. Michelle, my new roommate and i fight all the time, which is getting tiring and i'm pretty sick of avoiding her.
Hmm.. ohh yeah, my family is coming to visit on September 21st!!! I'm really excited about that, because i'm dying to see some people i actually know. I keep think i'm seeing people, which i know it's all in my head. Another good thing is, i'm planning on spieling next week, so that's exciting! It's weird, all of a sudden all the managers and some of the servers are treating me differently. I don't know if it's because i've been here for 3 months now and i've crossed some barrier, but it's nice. It's almost like i've earned their respect or something.
Anyways, that's really it for now. So i'm going to lye on the couch for an hour and relax and then studying the menu some more.
P.s - My schedule is as follows:
SUNDAY 19: 11:00-6:30pm (Popcorn)
MONDAY 20: 4:00-1:00am (Popcorn)
TURSDAY 21: 1:30-9:00pm (Popcorn)
WEDNESDAY 22: 4:15-10:15pm (Greeter)
THURSDAY 23: 4:30-12:00am (Popcorn)
FRIDAY 24: OFF
SATURDAY 25: OFF
Take Caree
Sam
xox
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Monorail Accident
Hey Everyone!!
So i know this is a little late in posting, but a week ago there was a fatal monorail accident in Disneyworld at the Trans Ticket Centre. There was a collison between monorail pink and monorail purple. The accident occured at approximatly 2:00am on July 5th, 2009. There has been several articles about it in the paper, online and on the news. It's been the talk of Disneyworld for a week now, and they're slowly pulling pieces of the puzzle and putting them all in place. I believe it was released that the pink train was going offline, which means taking it off the main tracks for the night but there was a technical malfunction and it didn't work..it kept going on the same one, where monorail purple was. (p.s.. could have the colors mixed up) The cast member driving the purple monorail who i think now is on a suspension leave with pay should have been looking out of his mirrors and would have noticed it didn't work and shut the entire system down, but didn't. Normally the monorials can only go a certain distance between each other and if they get too close it will shit down or slow down or something.. but the pilot had to override it to switch it off the tracks.. so that was also a problem. Also, the managers who were supposed to be in the control room and could have prevented this terrible accident were allegedly at Denny's while the accident happened.
So all the managers are on suspensions and Austin Wuennberg (sp?) the driver died. He was the only person in the front cabin, and there were six guests aboard the monorail at the time. The driver of monorail pink was fine, but taken to hospital just in case.
An article and video right here in more detail.
Opps haha i gotta jet.. apparently i'm going to EPCOT.
Chat more later
xox
Sam
So i know this is a little late in posting, but a week ago there was a fatal monorail accident in Disneyworld at the Trans Ticket Centre. There was a collison between monorail pink and monorail purple. The accident occured at approximatly 2:00am on July 5th, 2009. There has been several articles about it in the paper, online and on the news. It's been the talk of Disneyworld for a week now, and they're slowly pulling pieces of the puzzle and putting them all in place. I believe it was released that the pink train was going offline, which means taking it off the main tracks for the night but there was a technical malfunction and it didn't work..it kept going on the same one, where monorail purple was. (p.s.. could have the colors mixed up) The cast member driving the purple monorail who i think now is on a suspension leave with pay should have been looking out of his mirrors and would have noticed it didn't work and shut the entire system down, but didn't. Normally the monorials can only go a certain distance between each other and if they get too close it will shit down or slow down or something.. but the pilot had to override it to switch it off the tracks.. so that was also a problem. Also, the managers who were supposed to be in the control room and could have prevented this terrible accident were allegedly at Denny's while the accident happened.
So all the managers are on suspensions and Austin Wuennberg (sp?) the driver died. He was the only person in the front cabin, and there were six guests aboard the monorail at the time. The driver of monorail pink was fine, but taken to hospital just in case.
An article and video right here in more detail.
Opps haha i gotta jet.. apparently i'm going to EPCOT.
Chat more later
xox
Sam
Saturday, July 4, 2009
America, America, America!
Hey Everyone!!
Haha.. sorry.. just had so many American's shove their patriotic nissim in my face all day. I actually had a lot of fun today! Janice worked me like a dog by constantly changing our huge kegs. They kept blowing, and then i'd go fetch a new one for her to tap. It was hot, humid, and rained several times. And the fireworks were amazing. It was all worth it for them. They still did Illuminations as planned at 10:00pm, but after they had a special July 4th one. It was soo good. I didn't know what many fireworks could be in the sky at once. I'm going to have to find a video of it. Haha - i can't believe there's videos up on youtube already from like 4 hours ago. Crazy people. So this is the end of Illuminations and the July 4th celebration fireworks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxq-A0vtCoY&NR=1 - ENJOY!
So, i'm listening to my favorite song in the whole world, Loch Lomand by none other then OFF KILTER. Not sure what it is about it that i like. I'm a tad obsessed with Off Kilter. I just love the bagpipe, so anything with that in it is just plain awesome.
Hmm.. what else??
Ohh yeah, so when i got home from a very tiring shift at work, Courtney insisted we switch roooms then and there. lol I had asked her yesterday if we could switch rooms because she's never home and sleeps over at Francis' every night.. and the reason why i moved into this apartment was to lve and bunk with Michelle. So she agreed, but for some reason wanted to change then and there. haha
Oh yeah, i should probably say that getting on the C bus home tonight from EPCOT back to The Commons was just ridicilous. It was soooo busyy!! I nearly was trampeled on. I wish i had a video of how ridicilous these people are when they get on the bus after work. They shove the hell out of you, and it's worse then a mosh pit. I was shoved into the side of the door of the bus, which was quite painful, and they ended up slamming my nose into it, which hurt like hell. It was terrible, needless to say and i'm going to put a word into Disney securty, because someone is going to get hurt or killed someday.
Anyways, this is it for me. It's nearly 3:30AM.. and i'm sleepy.
Goodnight
Sam
xox
*You take the high road and i'll take the low road, i'll be in scotland before you.. for me and my true love will never meet again on the bonny bonny banks of loch lomand*
Haha.. sorry.. just had so many American's shove their patriotic nissim in my face all day. I actually had a lot of fun today! Janice worked me like a dog by constantly changing our huge kegs. They kept blowing, and then i'd go fetch a new one for her to tap. It was hot, humid, and rained several times. And the fireworks were amazing. It was all worth it for them. They still did Illuminations as planned at 10:00pm, but after they had a special July 4th one. It was soo good. I didn't know what many fireworks could be in the sky at once. I'm going to have to find a video of it. Haha - i can't believe there's videos up on youtube already from like 4 hours ago. Crazy people. So this is the end of Illuminations and the July 4th celebration fireworks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxq-A0vtCoY&NR=1 - ENJOY!
So, i'm listening to my favorite song in the whole world, Loch Lomand by none other then OFF KILTER. Not sure what it is about it that i like. I'm a tad obsessed with Off Kilter. I just love the bagpipe, so anything with that in it is just plain awesome.
Hmm.. what else??
Ohh yeah, so when i got home from a very tiring shift at work, Courtney insisted we switch roooms then and there. lol I had asked her yesterday if we could switch rooms because she's never home and sleeps over at Francis' every night.. and the reason why i moved into this apartment was to lve and bunk with Michelle. So she agreed, but for some reason wanted to change then and there. haha
Oh yeah, i should probably say that getting on the C bus home tonight from EPCOT back to The Commons was just ridicilous. It was soooo busyy!! I nearly was trampeled on. I wish i had a video of how ridicilous these people are when they get on the bus after work. They shove the hell out of you, and it's worse then a mosh pit. I was shoved into the side of the door of the bus, which was quite painful, and they ended up slamming my nose into it, which hurt like hell. It was terrible, needless to say and i'm going to put a word into Disney securty, because someone is going to get hurt or killed someday.
Anyways, this is it for me. It's nearly 3:30AM.. and i'm sleepy.
Goodnight
Sam
xox
*You take the high road and i'll take the low road, i'll be in scotland before you.. for me and my true love will never meet again on the bonny bonny banks of loch lomand*
Friday, July 3, 2009
Pictures
This is David, Heather and myself on the popcorn cart on Canada Day
This is myself showing off the beautiful British Columbia flag. =)
This is a picture Julie took of me signing her Canadian flag because i sold her a beer from Epcot.It actually went through and onto the counter. Shhh.. don't tell Janice. ;)
So i obviously don't have a camera, but some people took some cute pictures on Canada Day and thought i'd post them up here.
Happy Canada Day & Independence Day!!
Hey Everyone!!
So, obviously the first one is the best. haha - just kidding. So we had a fantasic Canada Day and tomorrow or i guess i should say today, is the American's Independence Day. It's going to be soo busy at work. We normally have 2 or 3 people on popcorn during the day, tomorrow we're having 10 cast members. It's going to be absolutly crazy! I'm actually pretty excited about it, to be honest. Canada Day was a lot of fun. I didn't do much, other then work. I worked until 6:30pm and then went to a movie with Ali. We saw The Proposal. It was sooo funny!! haha.. then when she was driving me home i saw Edd and Michelle, so she dropped me off and i ended up seeing a movie with them. We saw Public Enemy, with Johnny Depp in it. It was good, but we saw a midnight showing, so we didn't get out until liek 3am. So my Canada Day consisted of work, and two different movies. I don't have too much to report on. My new apartment is going pretty well. Ohh, we passed our inspection, believe it or not. I don't know how we did.. but we did.
Ohh my god. So i'm in love with Off Kilter! =) I know i've already mentioned this, but i can't get enough of them. I have two of their CD's. Anyways, so i don't have much else to say.. ohh wait. So Michelle was really nice and bought tickets to see Britney Spears live in Orlando on Sept 1st. I'm sooo excited! haha There's a first time for everything. And my camera is still broken, so i'm going to go look at some at Walmart on Sunday on my day off. Might buy one, but not too sure.
Anyways,
That's it for now.
Talk to you soon..
Sam
xox
So, obviously the first one is the best. haha - just kidding. So we had a fantasic Canada Day and tomorrow or i guess i should say today, is the American's Independence Day. It's going to be soo busy at work. We normally have 2 or 3 people on popcorn during the day, tomorrow we're having 10 cast members. It's going to be absolutly crazy! I'm actually pretty excited about it, to be honest. Canada Day was a lot of fun. I didn't do much, other then work. I worked until 6:30pm and then went to a movie with Ali. We saw The Proposal. It was sooo funny!! haha.. then when she was driving me home i saw Edd and Michelle, so she dropped me off and i ended up seeing a movie with them. We saw Public Enemy, with Johnny Depp in it. It was good, but we saw a midnight showing, so we didn't get out until liek 3am. So my Canada Day consisted of work, and two different movies. I don't have too much to report on. My new apartment is going pretty well. Ohh, we passed our inspection, believe it or not. I don't know how we did.. but we did.
Ohh my god. So i'm in love with Off Kilter! =) I know i've already mentioned this, but i can't get enough of them. I have two of their CD's. Anyways, so i don't have much else to say.. ohh wait. So Michelle was really nice and bought tickets to see Britney Spears live in Orlando on Sept 1st. I'm sooo excited! haha There's a first time for everything. And my camera is still broken, so i'm going to go look at some at Walmart on Sunday on my day off. Might buy one, but not too sure.
Anyways,
That's it for now.
Talk to you soon..
Sam
xox
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Moving, overtime, threats, and just plain tiredness!
Hey Everyone!!
So, as the title clearly explains.. i've been very busy! Thursay night i got a note at my door that my request to move apartments has been accepted, and i was to be out of my apartment by 3:00pm the next day. Kinda sucked because i got off work at 2:00am and spent most of the night packing. I woke up early the next morning and moved all my stuff to building 1, apartment 122. It was tough because it started to pour in the beginning and then it stopped and became soo humid, it was disgusting. Ohh and did i mention that i worked at 3 later that day. It sucked. It was a horribly busy shift too, but ohh well. And then i got home, barley had time to unpack and went to bed and had to be at work by 11:00am the next morning. Went and ended up working a 10 and a half hour shift being overbooked and such. It was annoying. Anyways.. needless to say i'm basically exhausted and all i wanna do it sleep. I have tomorrow off.. and then it's back to crazy, busy work for six bloody days.
I really do have more to say, but i really need sleep.. so goodnight!!
xox
So, as the title clearly explains.. i've been very busy! Thursay night i got a note at my door that my request to move apartments has been accepted, and i was to be out of my apartment by 3:00pm the next day. Kinda sucked because i got off work at 2:00am and spent most of the night packing. I woke up early the next morning and moved all my stuff to building 1, apartment 122. It was tough because it started to pour in the beginning and then it stopped and became soo humid, it was disgusting. Ohh and did i mention that i worked at 3 later that day. It sucked. It was a horribly busy shift too, but ohh well. And then i got home, barley had time to unpack and went to bed and had to be at work by 11:00am the next morning. Went and ended up working a 10 and a half hour shift being overbooked and such. It was annoying. Anyways.. needless to say i'm basically exhausted and all i wanna do it sleep. I have tomorrow off.. and then it's back to crazy, busy work for six bloody days.
I really do have more to say, but i really need sleep.. so goodnight!!
xox
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Picture time
Throw In - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=268527&id=647590552&l=39bbe281a6
Michelle's Birthday Dinner - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=272790&id=647590552&l=2719620b77
Hollywood Studios with Nykki - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=273178&id=647590552&l=a74ff6e928
Hidden Mickey Day - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=273825&id=647590552&l=02d9ca2d83
Michelle's Birthday Dinner - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=272790&id=647590552&l=2719620b77
Hollywood Studios with Nykki - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=273178&id=647590552&l=a74ff6e928
Hidden Mickey Day - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=273825&id=647590552&l=02d9ca2d83
Monday, June 22, 2009
It's been a while and inspection time.
Hey Everyone!!
So, holy bloody moly. I hadn't realized it's been like 2 and a half weeks since i've posted. Sorry guys, i guess i've just been really busy. I've had a six day work week for the past month, so that might be why. This week i get two wonderful days off together, but next week is another six day week. We're really short staffed and people are finising their contracts/self terming/getting termed left right and centre, so we're losing a lot of people.
Things are going well here. It's soo hot. We're creeping into 44 C degree weather here, and the worst hasn't even come yet. I love working popcorn to death, but this heat isn't making it much fun. I've been spending a lot of time at the parks latley. Edd and I go to Magic Kingdom a couple evenings a week. We do our usual, Big Rocky Mountain (Thunder), Laugh Floor, Phillar Magic, Spectro Magic, Buzz Lightyear (we always compete and winner buys dinner), finally did Splash Mountain again. Actually i've done it a total of 3 times since i've been down here. I did it when we first got here, and then the toher night Edd and i did when Spectro Magic was on, so it was dead, and they asked us if we wanted to just stay on. it was fun, but it kept going 101 and then 102. (which means broken and then fixed).
Tonight i'm going to HollyWood Studios with Nykki and we're probably going to go on the fun rides there and maybe see Fantasmic. Going to bring my camera, for sure. It's nice becaus the parks are finally open late now. Instead of them closing at like 7pm or 9pm, they're staying open until 12am or 1am. Tomorrow Edd and i are having a Hidden Mickey Day. We bought the hidden Mickey book and there's a million all over Disneyworld. We're determined. lol
We're hoping to start in Magic Kingdom in the morning and be there for open of the park, which is always fun.. and then end the night in Epcot for Illuminations. Love it, love it, love it.
Last night it was Michelle's birthday, so we went to TGI Friday's for dinner. There was Edd, Michelle, Daz, Sean, Chelsea, Melanie, Deana, myself, Heather, and Daniel. We had a lot of fun, despite the service was shit and we were separated to two different tables. But i enjoyed it.
It's GAMES night tonight, so i might have to go and make an apperance. It starts at 11:30pm and i think it's at Craig's apartment again. So that will be fun.
Ohhh and omg omg.. CANADA's DAY is coming up! It's going to be a blast. We get SOOOO much free food from the restraunt, all the Canadian cast members get free mickey Canada flag pins. I'm soo excited for it, oh and the best part is, they let us take our cameras on stage that day. I'm on popcorn, so it's going to be a blast! I'll get to be in the action. Also, i'm on popcorn for July 4th. And all the parks hours are extended that day, and Illuminations is on at 10pm and then there's extra fireworks going on at the end. It's going to be a really fun week.
That's about it to report on.
I sent some letters/cards/postcards in the mail about a week ago, so i'm hoping they'll arrive soon to a destination near you. ahah
Take Caree,
Sam
xox
So, holy bloody moly. I hadn't realized it's been like 2 and a half weeks since i've posted. Sorry guys, i guess i've just been really busy. I've had a six day work week for the past month, so that might be why. This week i get two wonderful days off together, but next week is another six day week. We're really short staffed and people are finising their contracts/self terming/getting termed left right and centre, so we're losing a lot of people.
Things are going well here. It's soo hot. We're creeping into 44 C degree weather here, and the worst hasn't even come yet. I love working popcorn to death, but this heat isn't making it much fun. I've been spending a lot of time at the parks latley. Edd and I go to Magic Kingdom a couple evenings a week. We do our usual, Big Rocky Mountain (Thunder), Laugh Floor, Phillar Magic, Spectro Magic, Buzz Lightyear (we always compete and winner buys dinner), finally did Splash Mountain again. Actually i've done it a total of 3 times since i've been down here. I did it when we first got here, and then the toher night Edd and i did when Spectro Magic was on, so it was dead, and they asked us if we wanted to just stay on. it was fun, but it kept going 101 and then 102. (which means broken and then fixed).
Tonight i'm going to HollyWood Studios with Nykki and we're probably going to go on the fun rides there and maybe see Fantasmic. Going to bring my camera, for sure. It's nice becaus the parks are finally open late now. Instead of them closing at like 7pm or 9pm, they're staying open until 12am or 1am. Tomorrow Edd and i are having a Hidden Mickey Day. We bought the hidden Mickey book and there's a million all over Disneyworld. We're determined. lol
We're hoping to start in Magic Kingdom in the morning and be there for open of the park, which is always fun.. and then end the night in Epcot for Illuminations. Love it, love it, love it.
Last night it was Michelle's birthday, so we went to TGI Friday's for dinner. There was Edd, Michelle, Daz, Sean, Chelsea, Melanie, Deana, myself, Heather, and Daniel. We had a lot of fun, despite the service was shit and we were separated to two different tables. But i enjoyed it.
It's GAMES night tonight, so i might have to go and make an apperance. It starts at 11:30pm and i think it's at Craig's apartment again. So that will be fun.
Ohhh and omg omg.. CANADA's DAY is coming up! It's going to be a blast. We get SOOOO much free food from the restraunt, all the Canadian cast members get free mickey Canada flag pins. I'm soo excited for it, oh and the best part is, they let us take our cameras on stage that day. I'm on popcorn, so it's going to be a blast! I'll get to be in the action. Also, i'm on popcorn for July 4th. And all the parks hours are extended that day, and Illuminations is on at 10pm and then there's extra fireworks going on at the end. It's going to be a really fun week.
That's about it to report on.
I sent some letters/cards/postcards in the mail about a week ago, so i'm hoping they'll arrive soon to a destination near you. ahah
Take Caree,
Sam
xox
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Termination??
Hey Everyonee!!!
So yeah, i slid pass termination today. I looked at my record card when i was on my break, and noticed that i had 3.5 points. And if you get 3 or more points in your first 3 months, you're supposed to get terminated. I started freaking, but couldn 't really talk to any of the managers because we were overbooked by 250 guests for dinner tonight, so all the managers are at their ends. lol I had that extra point because on Culinary Day i was sent home for being sick.. but i hadn't clocked in, so they treated it as a Call in Sick which results in 1 point. I had a talk with Jeff after my shift ended, and he said i didn't have anything to worry about. If they were going to terminate me, they would have ages ago. So i guess that's good!!
So i'm not terminated, and i'm still here. I'm working popcorn tomorrow! It's my last shift on the old cart.. and then on Tuesday Cale and I are opening the new one together. It should be interesting! I'm excited for tomorrow because i get to see all six sets of OFF KILTER! Just if anyone is curious this is what i get to listen to all day at work, and totally makes it worth it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1cGtHIpTS4
They're called OFF KILTER. They're soo much fun to be around. I swear i'm going to have an Off Kilter day and just come into work and watch them all day!
Anyways, enough about them. I don't really have much else to report on. I have Saturday off, which i'm excited about and hoping to go to a park in the evening. I'm thinking Magic Kingdom or something but not sure. I've uploaded some videos from the Throw in on Facebook. Ohhh yeah.. that's what i was going to talk about.
So the throw in last night happened for the new arrivals. It was fun, but we got half way through and then security came and broke it up. Soo not fair. They said we were being to loud, and anyone underage can't be in the same room when people are drinking alcohol, which is total BS and they just made it up, so we spent like 15 minutes going back and forth to 611 and 514m eventualy ending in 611 where we finished it. I had a good time, and Julie's performance was well worth the wait. The video is on Facebook if anyone is interested. I'm going to post the link to the pictures next time i post. The newbies seem really cool, and it's soo surreal to finally meet these people that i've been talking to online for soo many months!
Anyways, it's nearly 3am and i need to get back to my apartment, have a shower and get to bed.
Gotta be at Sasha's for 10:30am
Take Caree,
xox
So yeah, i slid pass termination today. I looked at my record card when i was on my break, and noticed that i had 3.5 points. And if you get 3 or more points in your first 3 months, you're supposed to get terminated. I started freaking, but couldn 't really talk to any of the managers because we were overbooked by 250 guests for dinner tonight, so all the managers are at their ends. lol I had that extra point because on Culinary Day i was sent home for being sick.. but i hadn't clocked in, so they treated it as a Call in Sick which results in 1 point. I had a talk with Jeff after my shift ended, and he said i didn't have anything to worry about. If they were going to terminate me, they would have ages ago. So i guess that's good!!
So i'm not terminated, and i'm still here. I'm working popcorn tomorrow! It's my last shift on the old cart.. and then on Tuesday Cale and I are opening the new one together. It should be interesting! I'm excited for tomorrow because i get to see all six sets of OFF KILTER! Just if anyone is curious this is what i get to listen to all day at work, and totally makes it worth it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1cGtHIpTS4
They're called OFF KILTER. They're soo much fun to be around. I swear i'm going to have an Off Kilter day and just come into work and watch them all day!
Anyways, enough about them. I don't really have much else to report on. I have Saturday off, which i'm excited about and hoping to go to a park in the evening. I'm thinking Magic Kingdom or something but not sure. I've uploaded some videos from the Throw in on Facebook. Ohhh yeah.. that's what i was going to talk about.
So the throw in last night happened for the new arrivals. It was fun, but we got half way through and then security came and broke it up. Soo not fair. They said we were being to loud, and anyone underage can't be in the same room when people are drinking alcohol, which is total BS and they just made it up, so we spent like 15 minutes going back and forth to 611 and 514m eventualy ending in 611 where we finished it. I had a good time, and Julie's performance was well worth the wait. The video is on Facebook if anyone is interested. I'm going to post the link to the pictures next time i post. The newbies seem really cool, and it's soo surreal to finally meet these people that i've been talking to online for soo many months!
Anyways, it's nearly 3am and i need to get back to my apartment, have a shower and get to bed.
Gotta be at Sasha's for 10:30am
Take Caree,
xox
Monday, June 8, 2009
7 weeks tomorrow!
Hey Everyone!!
So guess what? Tomorrow will be my 7 week anniversery! I can't believe i've been here for almost 2 months! It's beyond crazy. I've been having some down days again.. just tired of working with certain people, being told how to do everything when i've already been trained and sick of getting told off by my managers who are stressed out the it's all my fault. I'm hoping tomorrow will be better. I'm pm floater on popcorn, which means we have EXTRA MAGICAL HOURS and i'm the pm cast member who just kinda does whatever. I've never been a floater, but i think i do cash to cover breaks or whatever.. so it should be interesting. I'm working 3:30-12:00am. It's GAMES night tonight and i'm not sure if i'm going to go, because i feel gross and really need a shower.. so i think i might skip it again. I just feel bad because i complain about how i'm never getting invited anywhere to do things with the canadians and i always don't do things. Girls, i don't go to because i'm underage.. it's not worth getting caught but games is fun.. especially because Ali's hosting it this week! I'm pretty excited about the throw in on Wednesday! I think it's going to be interesting to see what happens when so many arrivals come.
I'm listening to ILLUMINATIONS right now, and it's crazy, i get goosebumps whenever i watch it at work. That's one of the reasons why i loe popcorn! And tomorrow we're open late.. so i get to actually watch it instead of start cleaning as soon as it comes on. I actually heard the fireworks from the commons like 5 mins ago.. heard the ending. It's SOOO loud. For those of you who are curious what i get to watch every night, here's a clip of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAWRcCXFGI8&feature=related
Also, i found this video like a month ago.. it's called Canadians Dancing.. i thought it was hilarious, and apparently we're re-making it this year. I work with a couple people in the video.. and there's a manager a the end i work with. =)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjSFx37-EF4
Enjoy!
I don't really have much else to update on.. but i have a couple albums to post on here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=262896&id=647590552&l=2c7048b946
^^ this is EPCOT & around the world
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=266740&id=647590552&l=a5db80690e
^^ and these are from Universal Studios
That's it for now.
Take Caree
xox
So guess what? Tomorrow will be my 7 week anniversery! I can't believe i've been here for almost 2 months! It's beyond crazy. I've been having some down days again.. just tired of working with certain people, being told how to do everything when i've already been trained and sick of getting told off by my managers who are stressed out the it's all my fault. I'm hoping tomorrow will be better. I'm pm floater on popcorn, which means we have EXTRA MAGICAL HOURS and i'm the pm cast member who just kinda does whatever. I've never been a floater, but i think i do cash to cover breaks or whatever.. so it should be interesting. I'm working 3:30-12:00am. It's GAMES night tonight and i'm not sure if i'm going to go, because i feel gross and really need a shower.. so i think i might skip it again. I just feel bad because i complain about how i'm never getting invited anywhere to do things with the canadians and i always don't do things. Girls, i don't go to because i'm underage.. it's not worth getting caught but games is fun.. especially because Ali's hosting it this week! I'm pretty excited about the throw in on Wednesday! I think it's going to be interesting to see what happens when so many arrivals come.
I'm listening to ILLUMINATIONS right now, and it's crazy, i get goosebumps whenever i watch it at work. That's one of the reasons why i loe popcorn! And tomorrow we're open late.. so i get to actually watch it instead of start cleaning as soon as it comes on. I actually heard the fireworks from the commons like 5 mins ago.. heard the ending. It's SOOO loud. For those of you who are curious what i get to watch every night, here's a clip of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAWRcCXFGI8&feature=related
Also, i found this video like a month ago.. it's called Canadians Dancing.. i thought it was hilarious, and apparently we're re-making it this year. I work with a couple people in the video.. and there's a manager a the end i work with. =)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjSFx37-EF4
Enjoy!
I don't really have much else to update on.. but i have a couple albums to post on here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=262896&id=647590552&l=2c7048b946
^^ this is EPCOT & around the world
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=266740&id=647590552&l=a5db80690e
^^ and these are from Universal Studios
That's it for now.
Take Caree
xox
Friday, June 5, 2009
And guess what.. i'm sick again!
Hey Everyone!!
So, yep.. i am sick again. Well, i was. It's nearly gone now.. but have a little bit left. I had tonsilites mixed with allergies mixed with a bad chest cold! It was a pretty misserible week! But it's good now, although i had a really bad coughing attack today at work while i was seating a table. I knew i shouldn't had speiled to the table, but i did anyways.. and i started coughing halfway through it.. and i tried to hold it in and my eyes started to water and my face was going bright red as my voice was disentigrating. Wasn't fun. I ran out of the restruant and told them(David & Lyndsay that i was going out back to die!). Took me a good 15 minutes for it to pass, which rreally sucked because we were super over booked again! Had to do about 605 guests for are dinner rush! Sucked!!! Ohh well! I'm on popcorn tomorrow! Yay! I love it because i'm outside all day with all the guests and i know what's going on, no managers, OFF KILTER all day long! and i get a nice tan when i'm out there!
There's not really much to report on. The new arrivals come on Tuesday, so that means a throw in on Wednesday! Pretty excited about that. Ohh and i'm getting my new cell phone on Thursday, i think. lol Sasha is self terming.. so she's giving me her awesome phone, and we're setting it all up after work on Monday. =)
Other then that.. nothing really new to report. haha.. i'm working the next 7 days.. so 10 days total. Not looking forward to that, but ohh well.
Talk to you soon
Sam
xox
So, yep.. i am sick again. Well, i was. It's nearly gone now.. but have a little bit left. I had tonsilites mixed with allergies mixed with a bad chest cold! It was a pretty misserible week! But it's good now, although i had a really bad coughing attack today at work while i was seating a table. I knew i shouldn't had speiled to the table, but i did anyways.. and i started coughing halfway through it.. and i tried to hold it in and my eyes started to water and my face was going bright red as my voice was disentigrating. Wasn't fun. I ran out of the restruant and told them(David & Lyndsay that i was going out back to die!). Took me a good 15 minutes for it to pass, which rreally sucked because we were super over booked again! Had to do about 605 guests for are dinner rush! Sucked!!! Ohh well! I'm on popcorn tomorrow! Yay! I love it because i'm outside all day with all the guests and i know what's going on, no managers, OFF KILTER all day long! and i get a nice tan when i'm out there!
There's not really much to report on. The new arrivals come on Tuesday, so that means a throw in on Wednesday! Pretty excited about that. Ohh and i'm getting my new cell phone on Thursday, i think. lol Sasha is self terming.. so she's giving me her awesome phone, and we're setting it all up after work on Monday. =)
Other then that.. nothing really new to report. haha.. i'm working the next 7 days.. so 10 days total. Not looking forward to that, but ohh well.
Talk to you soon
Sam
xox
Friday, May 29, 2009
Having the time of my life
Hey Everyonee!!
So.. you were right, that is.. if you thought i should stay here. haha.. i'm having such a blast now! I'm enjoying everything so much now! Today, i went to EPCOT by myself.. which i thought was going to suck, but it didn't in the slightest! I wanted to take some pictures of the flower and garden festival thingy before it ended on Sunday. So i started out.. taking lots of pictures and made my way to Canada to start around the world. I ended up running into Lindsey on popcorn cart who wanted me to wait for her so she could go on her break. So i waited like 25 mins for Kristen to come back so Lindsey and i could go to the Odyessy. After we came back i headed around taking pictures in every country except really Canada.. because i've taken so many there already. It was hot, but really nice to see all the countries. There was a shirt that i wanted to buy for Alex, but i didn't get paid that much this week.. so i didn't buy it. It was a sss from the France store. It was really nice. It was also cool to see where these restraunts are that i keep sending guests too. After i went back over to Canada to watch Off Kilter. I killed some time by chatting to Aliyson and Lindsey. I love Off Kilter. They're just soo much fun and random. Took lots of vids and pictures of them. It's kinda nice because we share a break trailer with them.. and they always use are washrooms in the GT office.. so we chat to them a bit. My favorite moment was two of them walking back from there set backstage and they were hudleded together under an umbrella and one of them was like yeah.. i know this would be the perfect youtube moment. I jsut laughed and thought it was hilarious. Another one was the other day the keg exploded on me (which means it was out..) and i was bringing the empty keg backstage to behind the restraunt and had to walk past them playing onstage and they were at a non-singing part of the song and one of them whistled at me and gestured at me to bring the keg over to him. It was funny!!
Today in their last set this crazy guy who no doubt had mental issues was dancing like a lunitic infront of the stage, and after a couple songs.. the lead guy, James.. couldn't take it anymore and just started laughing. And this was right during the song Alberta Bound. He was supposed to be singing but couldn't pull himself together because everytime he looked at the guy dancing he just started laughing again. It was the funniest thing ever. I have some of it on video!!
After i watched 2 sets of Off Kilter, i grabbed some dinner at the refreshment port and then bugged Aliyson and Lindsey some more as i waited for Illuminations to start. Illuminations was great tonight. I love it, and it was nice to see it again while not working.
Hmm.. is there anything else to talk about? well i'm really enjoying myself here, and i'm sooo happy that i decided to stay! like soooooo happy!
Tomorrow Aliyson needs to buy a wetsuit for her scuba class, so i'm tagging along and we're going to get lost togther. But don't worry.. she has a car! haha
Anyways.. that's it for me.. it's almost 3am. I shall talk to you guys soon!
Take Caree,
xox
So.. you were right, that is.. if you thought i should stay here. haha.. i'm having such a blast now! I'm enjoying everything so much now! Today, i went to EPCOT by myself.. which i thought was going to suck, but it didn't in the slightest! I wanted to take some pictures of the flower and garden festival thingy before it ended on Sunday. So i started out.. taking lots of pictures and made my way to Canada to start around the world. I ended up running into Lindsey on popcorn cart who wanted me to wait for her so she could go on her break. So i waited like 25 mins for Kristen to come back so Lindsey and i could go to the Odyessy. After we came back i headed around taking pictures in every country except really Canada.. because i've taken so many there already. It was hot, but really nice to see all the countries. There was a shirt that i wanted to buy for Alex, but i didn't get paid that much this week.. so i didn't buy it. It was a sss from the France store. It was really nice. It was also cool to see where these restraunts are that i keep sending guests too. After i went back over to Canada to watch Off Kilter. I killed some time by chatting to Aliyson and Lindsey. I love Off Kilter. They're just soo much fun and random. Took lots of vids and pictures of them. It's kinda nice because we share a break trailer with them.. and they always use are washrooms in the GT office.. so we chat to them a bit. My favorite moment was two of them walking back from there set backstage and they were hudleded together under an umbrella and one of them was like yeah.. i know this would be the perfect youtube moment. I jsut laughed and thought it was hilarious. Another one was the other day the keg exploded on me (which means it was out..) and i was bringing the empty keg backstage to behind the restraunt and had to walk past them playing onstage and they were at a non-singing part of the song and one of them whistled at me and gestured at me to bring the keg over to him. It was funny!!
Today in their last set this crazy guy who no doubt had mental issues was dancing like a lunitic infront of the stage, and after a couple songs.. the lead guy, James.. couldn't take it anymore and just started laughing. And this was right during the song Alberta Bound. He was supposed to be singing but couldn't pull himself together because everytime he looked at the guy dancing he just started laughing again. It was the funniest thing ever. I have some of it on video!!
After i watched 2 sets of Off Kilter, i grabbed some dinner at the refreshment port and then bugged Aliyson and Lindsey some more as i waited for Illuminations to start. Illuminations was great tonight. I love it, and it was nice to see it again while not working.
Hmm.. is there anything else to talk about? well i'm really enjoying myself here, and i'm sooo happy that i decided to stay! like soooooo happy!
Tomorrow Aliyson needs to buy a wetsuit for her scuba class, so i'm tagging along and we're going to get lost togther. But don't worry.. she has a car! haha
Anyways.. that's it for me.. it's almost 3am. I shall talk to you guys soon!
Take Caree,
xox
Monday, May 25, 2009
2am, figure skating and moulin rouge!
Hey Everyone!!
Haha, so i've been kinda bored for the past couple hours, so i've been watching videos of Jamie and Dave from this years Stars On Ice..and now i'm listening to music from Moulin Rouge! I'm not sure why.. but i just decided to look it up!
So.. what's going on with me? Well i had the worst day ever going back to work last Sunday (i can't remember if i wrote about it or not).. but i was yelled/told off by my manager on stage infront of guests, which didn't make me feel real peachy about staying. Later that evening to asked to have a little "pow-wow" as she put it. It ended up getting put off until the next day because i think was doing inventory or something. She was too busy, regardless..
So she pulled me into her office and we just chatted about everything. How i was feeling, why i did a no call no show again.. and just to kinda see where i was at. She told me a lot about what she went through when she did the program..ages ago and such like that, so it was nice to hear it from someone who's been through sort of what i've been through. Also, she put a lot of things into perspective for me. It was weird, because she was saying the same things that everyone else was.. but i seemed to get it when she said it. I think it was the way she described it or something. Like how she was doing a program and had been working for Disney for 5 years and then went home for a year because she was homesick, but what she thought was going to be home.. really wasn't anymore. It was all just a fantasy. Everyone had moved on with their lives.. and it wasn't the same. Mind you, she's an American and i think only lived like 2 or 3 states away from Florida...but i knew where she was getting at.
There were other things that she said that just kinda clicked.. so i think i'm down here for quite a bit of time. Although, who knows?? haha
On an awesomley awesome note... i got paid double time today! Apparently the US really likes their holidays. So it was Memorial Day yesterady (Equivelant to our Rememberance Day)..and we all get paid 8 hours of straight normal pay, and then if we work.. it's paid on top. Just a little different and much nicer than in Canada!
So i worked six hours today.. so that means 8 hours of reg pay and 6 of STAT pay! Yay me!!! Hopfully it'll make up for all the lost popcorn shifts from the dumb rain!
Hmm.. what else? Oh yeah.. because i'm an idiot and did two no call no shows (since i've been down here) i have two points. Anddd!!! on Sunday night, i thought i had clocked out.. but it was pouring with rain and i pressed the button and swipped and then i noticed it didn't look like it usually did.. but i figured it worked.. but it didn't of course, so now i have 2.5 points. If you get 3 in your first 3 months.. you get termed!
And by Disney standards.. i should be terminated by now. A no call no show is supposed to be repremandable..and i have two, and if you get one in your first 3 months.. you're supposed to get termed... so i'm thankful that they're being so great to me as i figure my crap out.
Is there anything else really worth mentioning? Well.. oh yeah.. A LA CARTE is coming out tomorrow! It's our new reservation system. It's going to crash.. and oh yeah.. the system has overbooked us by 250 guests!!!!!!! So tomorrow is going to be bonkers. We've all been preparing for months.. we usually close for an hour between lunch and dinner.. but we're not tomorrow because of the overbooking. I think we're also allowing guests to buy drinks from the bar to drink in the lobby if they want because it's going to be a realllly long wait for everyone! We're usually supposed to turn a table in about 6 minutes.. but tomororw night we have about a minute and a half-two minutes to do it, so wish us luck! We're bringing in people just to bus tables all night and then there's tons of seaters/greeters.. i believe we're bringing in 13 servers, we're opening nunavut..and all the managers will be there. I'm super lucky because i get to be on popcorn all night! yay me!! haha But i'm am greeter on Wednesday, so that's going to completely suck!!
Well i guess that is it. It's not 2:30am and i wanna be up by 5am for my jog!
Take Caree,
Sam
xox
Haha, so i've been kinda bored for the past couple hours, so i've been watching videos of Jamie and Dave from this years Stars On Ice..and now i'm listening to music from Moulin Rouge! I'm not sure why.. but i just decided to look it up!
So.. what's going on with me? Well i had the worst day ever going back to work last Sunday (i can't remember if i wrote about it or not).. but i was yelled/told off by my manager on stage infront of guests, which didn't make me feel real peachy about staying. Later that evening to asked to have a little "pow-wow" as she put it. It ended up getting put off until the next day because i think was doing inventory or something. She was too busy, regardless..
So she pulled me into her office and we just chatted about everything. How i was feeling, why i did a no call no show again.. and just to kinda see where i was at. She told me a lot about what she went through when she did the program..ages ago and such like that, so it was nice to hear it from someone who's been through sort of what i've been through. Also, she put a lot of things into perspective for me. It was weird, because she was saying the same things that everyone else was.. but i seemed to get it when she said it. I think it was the way she described it or something. Like how she was doing a program and had been working for Disney for 5 years and then went home for a year because she was homesick, but what she thought was going to be home.. really wasn't anymore. It was all just a fantasy. Everyone had moved on with their lives.. and it wasn't the same. Mind you, she's an American and i think only lived like 2 or 3 states away from Florida...but i knew where she was getting at.
There were other things that she said that just kinda clicked.. so i think i'm down here for quite a bit of time. Although, who knows?? haha
On an awesomley awesome note... i got paid double time today! Apparently the US really likes their holidays. So it was Memorial Day yesterady (Equivelant to our Rememberance Day)..and we all get paid 8 hours of straight normal pay, and then if we work.. it's paid on top. Just a little different and much nicer than in Canada!
So i worked six hours today.. so that means 8 hours of reg pay and 6 of STAT pay! Yay me!!! Hopfully it'll make up for all the lost popcorn shifts from the dumb rain!
Hmm.. what else? Oh yeah.. because i'm an idiot and did two no call no shows (since i've been down here) i have two points. Anddd!!! on Sunday night, i thought i had clocked out.. but it was pouring with rain and i pressed the button and swipped and then i noticed it didn't look like it usually did.. but i figured it worked.. but it didn't of course, so now i have 2.5 points. If you get 3 in your first 3 months.. you get termed!
And by Disney standards.. i should be terminated by now. A no call no show is supposed to be repremandable..and i have two, and if you get one in your first 3 months.. you're supposed to get termed... so i'm thankful that they're being so great to me as i figure my crap out.
Is there anything else really worth mentioning? Well.. oh yeah.. A LA CARTE is coming out tomorrow! It's our new reservation system. It's going to crash.. and oh yeah.. the system has overbooked us by 250 guests!!!!!!! So tomorrow is going to be bonkers. We've all been preparing for months.. we usually close for an hour between lunch and dinner.. but we're not tomorrow because of the overbooking. I think we're also allowing guests to buy drinks from the bar to drink in the lobby if they want because it's going to be a realllly long wait for everyone! We're usually supposed to turn a table in about 6 minutes.. but tomororw night we have about a minute and a half-two minutes to do it, so wish us luck! We're bringing in people just to bus tables all night and then there's tons of seaters/greeters.. i believe we're bringing in 13 servers, we're opening nunavut..and all the managers will be there. I'm super lucky because i get to be on popcorn all night! yay me!! haha But i'm am greeter on Wednesday, so that's going to completely suck!!
Well i guess that is it. It's not 2:30am and i wanna be up by 5am for my jog!
Take Caree,
Sam
xox
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Tough couple of days with a tough decision
Hey Everyone!!
So the past couple days have been mentally and physically exhausting, thinking/debating about staying in Florida or going home. I actually have a flight booked from MCO to YYJ that leaves in abotu 2 hours, but i'm not getting on the plane. I thought long and hard and had soo many friends help me decide, and i finally decided to stay. It was bad, i decided at Magic Kingdom tonight with ROBYN (see i remember your name now!) ;) and Louisa. Robyn called Janice and told her i was staying. But when we were getting connected at Guest Relations i was going back and forth. I was pretty sure i was going home... that was it, i had decided.. but right as she started talking to her i decided to stay. I'm honestly not sure why i am. I think it's because it is what everyone wants to here.. and i don't have anything else really better to do. I mean if i go home.. i have to go back to The Bay at least until i can find something else and i don't know. I'm also really enjoying the people that i'm meeting down here. I'm starting to have fun with some of them and get a little closer to them. I wanna give a shout out to Robyn & Heather if they read this. Both of you were really good to me the past couple weeks and even since i've arrived.. and i've been constantly going back and forth and you guys have been there with me the whole time, being very very supportive and making me dinner, going out for dinner and of course the parks. I really appreciate it!!! =)
So i think i do wanna be here.. but i'm really really homesick. It's mostly the animals right now. All i really wanna do is hug/see Simba and of course Austin. I miss them both soo much.
It's really hard living with out any animals, i've never done it before.
So tomorrow i'm going to wake up early and go to walmart, buy some food for once and open an account at Sun Trust so i can activate my phone because i'll have a credit card! haha
Anyways, i'm dead tired and it's nearly 4am! Ickk and i work tomorrow at 3pm.
I'll talk to ya'll later. P.s - i'm listening to Sound of Music soundtrack and it's not helping the homesickness.. but i love it!!!
Talk to you soon!
Sam
xox
- P.P.S... i have some more pictures. :
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=259880&id=647590552&l=8738e21abc
So the past couple days have been mentally and physically exhausting, thinking/debating about staying in Florida or going home. I actually have a flight booked from MCO to YYJ that leaves in abotu 2 hours, but i'm not getting on the plane. I thought long and hard and had soo many friends help me decide, and i finally decided to stay. It was bad, i decided at Magic Kingdom tonight with ROBYN (see i remember your name now!) ;) and Louisa. Robyn called Janice and told her i was staying. But when we were getting connected at Guest Relations i was going back and forth. I was pretty sure i was going home... that was it, i had decided.. but right as she started talking to her i decided to stay. I'm honestly not sure why i am. I think it's because it is what everyone wants to here.. and i don't have anything else really better to do. I mean if i go home.. i have to go back to The Bay at least until i can find something else and i don't know. I'm also really enjoying the people that i'm meeting down here. I'm starting to have fun with some of them and get a little closer to them. I wanna give a shout out to Robyn & Heather if they read this. Both of you were really good to me the past couple weeks and even since i've arrived.. and i've been constantly going back and forth and you guys have been there with me the whole time, being very very supportive and making me dinner, going out for dinner and of course the parks. I really appreciate it!!! =)
So i think i do wanna be here.. but i'm really really homesick. It's mostly the animals right now. All i really wanna do is hug/see Simba and of course Austin. I miss them both soo much.
It's really hard living with out any animals, i've never done it before.
So tomorrow i'm going to wake up early and go to walmart, buy some food for once and open an account at Sun Trust so i can activate my phone because i'll have a credit card! haha
Anyways, i'm dead tired and it's nearly 4am! Ickk and i work tomorrow at 3pm.
I'll talk to ya'll later. P.s - i'm listening to Sound of Music soundtrack and it's not helping the homesickness.. but i love it!!!
Talk to you soon!
Sam
xox
- P.P.S... i have some more pictures. :
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=259880&id=647590552&l=8738e21abc
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Been in Florida for 1 month
Hey Everyonee!!!
So, oh my god! I'm soaking wet from all the bloody rain! It hasn't stopped raining for soo many days! And the rain is soo hard! Allison drove me home from work today and i was like gripping the seat because i couldn't see out the window because the rain was soo hard and we were on the bloody freeway going like 110!
Anyways, so i'm 100% finished my training, well was last week. I'm definatly staying and i've been in Florida for exactly 1 month today! It's pretty sweet, and has actually gone by really fast.
Hmm, so lots has been going on lately. I'm making a lot more friends in Canada and becoming a lot more closer to them, which i'm happy about because i don't feel so out numbered. They're all pretty supportive and i know most of them have my back. I definatly trust them. And i'm starting to leave my british group behind. Not like i don't like them, but it's pretty hard to spend time with them.. so i tend to drift away. Ohh so i went to games last night! It was soo much fun! No swearing and no drinking. We played pictionary and there was like idk 15 of us there or something. A lot of fun!
There's really nothing exciting happening, ohh except i'm going to Tampa hopfully on Tuesday with Erik & Lindsey! We're staying in a cheap motel (but safe) and going to have a blast because it's Erik's birthday! I'm soo excited!
Anyways, that's about it for now!
Take Caree,
xox
So, oh my god! I'm soaking wet from all the bloody rain! It hasn't stopped raining for soo many days! And the rain is soo hard! Allison drove me home from work today and i was like gripping the seat because i couldn't see out the window because the rain was soo hard and we were on the bloody freeway going like 110!
Anyways, so i'm 100% finished my training, well was last week. I'm definatly staying and i've been in Florida for exactly 1 month today! It's pretty sweet, and has actually gone by really fast.
Hmm, so lots has been going on lately. I'm making a lot more friends in Canada and becoming a lot more closer to them, which i'm happy about because i don't feel so out numbered. They're all pretty supportive and i know most of them have my back. I definatly trust them. And i'm starting to leave my british group behind. Not like i don't like them, but it's pretty hard to spend time with them.. so i tend to drift away. Ohh so i went to games last night! It was soo much fun! No swearing and no drinking. We played pictionary and there was like idk 15 of us there or something. A lot of fun!
There's really nothing exciting happening, ohh except i'm going to Tampa hopfully on Tuesday with Erik & Lindsey! We're staying in a cheap motel (but safe) and going to have a blast because it's Erik's birthday! I'm soo excited!
Anyways, that's about it for now!
Take Caree,
xox
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
First day of rain
Hey Everyonee!!!
So guess what? It finally rained!! It started around 3pm so we closed down the popcorn cart and chilled backstage for like 5 hours. It was pretty sweet. And Jeff (manager) didn't make us do anything which was even more awesome. I kept walking outside and just standing in the rain. It made me think of back home in Victoria. Except the rain here is ridicilous. The drops are like the size of a penny and you get soo wet! Finally around 7pm Jeff came out and told us to close the cart and go home! Yay!!! The even cooler part about it all is there was thunder and lightening all day and night. But they wouldn't let us go outside if there was lightening when it was raining. There were tons of loud sirens sounding telling everyone to get in because it's dangerous and you could get electricuted. lol
When i got home i met up with Edd and we went for dinner at the Food Court and ran into Graeme and David. It was nice to see everyone again.
That really summed it up. We attempted to go swimming in the rain, but security kicked us out due to the lightening. Fair enough. So we all headed back to my place and watched some movies. =)
Today i'm getting ready for work ( 2:30-10:30pm) stocker popcorn, yay!
Tomorrow Graeme and I are going Figure Skating (that's right we found an arena in Florida!!) And then after we're attempting to open a bank account at Bank of America. We're not sure if we can with out our social security cards. And then on Friday i'm hanging out with one of my roomates, Ashley and we're going to Hollywood Studios. So those will be fun days off!!
That's it for now, just because i need to dressed and put on my lame costume. haha
Ohh p.s.. i lost my cell phone the day before yesterday, so don't call/text me pls.
Thankssssssssss
Sam
So guess what? It finally rained!! It started around 3pm so we closed down the popcorn cart and chilled backstage for like 5 hours. It was pretty sweet. And Jeff (manager) didn't make us do anything which was even more awesome. I kept walking outside and just standing in the rain. It made me think of back home in Victoria. Except the rain here is ridicilous. The drops are like the size of a penny and you get soo wet! Finally around 7pm Jeff came out and told us to close the cart and go home! Yay!!! The even cooler part about it all is there was thunder and lightening all day and night. But they wouldn't let us go outside if there was lightening when it was raining. There were tons of loud sirens sounding telling everyone to get in because it's dangerous and you could get electricuted. lol
When i got home i met up with Edd and we went for dinner at the Food Court and ran into Graeme and David. It was nice to see everyone again.
That really summed it up. We attempted to go swimming in the rain, but security kicked us out due to the lightening. Fair enough. So we all headed back to my place and watched some movies. =)
Today i'm getting ready for work ( 2:30-10:30pm) stocker popcorn, yay!
Tomorrow Graeme and I are going Figure Skating (that's right we found an arena in Florida!!) And then after we're attempting to open a bank account at Bank of America. We're not sure if we can with out our social security cards. And then on Friday i'm hanging out with one of my roomates, Ashley and we're going to Hollywood Studios. So those will be fun days off!!
That's it for now, just because i need to dressed and put on my lame costume. haha
Ohh p.s.. i lost my cell phone the day before yesterday, so don't call/text me pls.
Thankssssssssss
Sam
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Hot, Hot, Hot!
Hey Everyonee!
So i don't really have anything to report on other then it's freaking hott!! OMG, i'm going to die.
All i do is sweat here. Infact i'm currently sweating up a storm.
Ohh and i have some pictures from the Throw-In.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=254656&id=647590552&l=9706e38fd0
Well i'm outie,
Goodnight
xox
So i don't really have anything to report on other then it's freaking hott!! OMG, i'm going to die.
All i do is sweat here. Infact i'm currently sweating up a storm.
Ohh and i have some pictures from the Throw-In.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=254656&id=647590552&l=9706e38fd0
Well i'm outie,
Goodnight
xox
Friday, May 8, 2009
What a crazy couple of days!
Hey Everyone!!!
I'm sorry that i havn't updated in a few days, but i've been crazy busy. I think i last bloged on Tuesday? Anyways, work has been intersting. I really do enjoy it, but it's stressful working in a restraunt with that good of a name. Like it's always so busy that you can't screw up and i accedntly sat a party of 4 at the wrong table and my are assignor freaked and told me i screwed up her whole night. It was fine, but she made me feel like shit after. Luckly i was off about 15 minutes after that. My managers are constantly telling me i'm doing really good and are glad that i decided to stay, which is good. I have two more shifts in the restraunt and then i'm out of popcorn, yay! lol
I love greeting. It's a lot of guest interactions, but i just stand there with my little computer and check guests in. I'm trying to decide if i wanna speil or not. I probably will, but it's pretty stressful (the speiling aspect).
Anyways, so i am really enjoying myself here, but it doesn't feel real. Like it feels like i'm in this alternate universe. And i supose that's what it's supposed to be like for the guests. It's an escape for them. But i was thinking and it's May (almost half way) which means June is next month and that means i graduated a year ago. It's crazy, it just feels like life has stopped in general. I'm sure it'll feel a little different when big holidays and birthday arise.
So yes, Wednesday was definatly a down day, well until i went out for dinner with my 'big sister', Kate. It was soo nice talking to someone who knew everything about Victoria! Like talking about the restraunts and malls and stores back at home. lol
Ohh yeah, did you know they have White Spot's in Alberta now??? CRAZY! lol
Umm.. what else, oh yeah.. we had the throw in for Melanie! She's such a cool girl! The throw in was a lot of fun and well everything that happened with it. The part that sucked was some of us partied until 4:30am ish.. and us newbies well now exnewbies had social security day the next day. We had to be at the bus stop by 6:00am the next morning. lol So i basically didn't go to bed. I went over to Erik's place and sorta slept, but it was for like an hour, then headed for the buses. It was pretty boring but we went. Never in my entire life do i have to appy for a social security card. (Aka...Canadian SINs). So after that we got back to The Commons and went to McDonalds for breakfast, went back to commons and got ready fro Typhoon Lagoon. Had a blast there. It was Edd, Graeme, David and I. I loved the wave pool. You get swallowed by the huge tsunami wave they drop. Soo much fun. Their slides were okay, but Blizzard Beach has better ones. So we spent from like 11-4 there and then went home for an hour and Edd, David and i went to Hollywood Studios. We went on Rockin' with Aerosmith (of course) and did the Muppets 3-D. The David ditched us cause he was tired and went back home. Edd and I stayed and did the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror (where it drops you in an elevator 13 stories) It was Edd's first ride on it, so it was fun freaking him out. lol After the long 40 minute wait to snuck/blended in with the Fantasmic line and saw Fantasmic. We had such crappy seats. First row at the very left of the ampathetre, but we still saw it and it was so nice. It hit me then that i'm working for such an amazing company that makes so much magic everyday! Love it! I have a few goals down here. To go on every ride, watch every show, see Canada 360 movie 100 times (98 more to go) and to see Fantasmic 100 times (99 more to go). The park closed after Fantasmic so we left but were really hungry so we went to downtown disney to eat at Planet Hollywood. But the bus was incredibly crowded so we ended up taking a resort bus to The Old Key West Resort and caught another resort bus from there to Downtown Disney. I love how us cast members can do whatever we want. lol
Ohh but the best so far is Planet Hollywood. Disney cast members get priority seating. I just flash them my ID and they take us upstairs within 30 seconds. No joke, i was like seriously??? That's amazing. haha
And then we went home after this. I believe i got in around 2:30am this morning. So i was pretty sleep deprived. I slept in unil 1pm today and now i'm just cleaning my room a little, hofully fixed my internet and meeting up with Edd last after he's off and we're going to go watch Illuminations and do some stuff at Epcot.
It's bakc to work for me tomorrow! I'm a stocker in the restraunt, so it's not too bad. Just do my own thing and get yelled at by servers. lol Ohh well.
Next Thursday can't come soon enough though! lol
Other then that, there's nothing really going on. lol
Ohh i guess i should say that FYI, Erik is gay. I'm sleeping over at thee random guys apartments. He's the other canadian in my arrival group so we're close. But he's such a partier. lol Ohh well.
I guess i should go.
Take Caree,
Sam
xox
I'm sorry that i havn't updated in a few days, but i've been crazy busy. I think i last bloged on Tuesday? Anyways, work has been intersting. I really do enjoy it, but it's stressful working in a restraunt with that good of a name. Like it's always so busy that you can't screw up and i accedntly sat a party of 4 at the wrong table and my are assignor freaked and told me i screwed up her whole night. It was fine, but she made me feel like shit after. Luckly i was off about 15 minutes after that. My managers are constantly telling me i'm doing really good and are glad that i decided to stay, which is good. I have two more shifts in the restraunt and then i'm out of popcorn, yay! lol
I love greeting. It's a lot of guest interactions, but i just stand there with my little computer and check guests in. I'm trying to decide if i wanna speil or not. I probably will, but it's pretty stressful (the speiling aspect).
Anyways, so i am really enjoying myself here, but it doesn't feel real. Like it feels like i'm in this alternate universe. And i supose that's what it's supposed to be like for the guests. It's an escape for them. But i was thinking and it's May (almost half way) which means June is next month and that means i graduated a year ago. It's crazy, it just feels like life has stopped in general. I'm sure it'll feel a little different when big holidays and birthday arise.
So yes, Wednesday was definatly a down day, well until i went out for dinner with my 'big sister', Kate. It was soo nice talking to someone who knew everything about Victoria! Like talking about the restraunts and malls and stores back at home. lol
Ohh yeah, did you know they have White Spot's in Alberta now??? CRAZY! lol
Umm.. what else, oh yeah.. we had the throw in for Melanie! She's such a cool girl! The throw in was a lot of fun and well everything that happened with it. The part that sucked was some of us partied until 4:30am ish.. and us newbies well now exnewbies had social security day the next day. We had to be at the bus stop by 6:00am the next morning. lol So i basically didn't go to bed. I went over to Erik's place and sorta slept, but it was for like an hour, then headed for the buses. It was pretty boring but we went. Never in my entire life do i have to appy for a social security card. (Aka...Canadian SINs). So after that we got back to The Commons and went to McDonalds for breakfast, went back to commons and got ready fro Typhoon Lagoon. Had a blast there. It was Edd, Graeme, David and I. I loved the wave pool. You get swallowed by the huge tsunami wave they drop. Soo much fun. Their slides were okay, but Blizzard Beach has better ones. So we spent from like 11-4 there and then went home for an hour and Edd, David and i went to Hollywood Studios. We went on Rockin' with Aerosmith (of course) and did the Muppets 3-D. The David ditched us cause he was tired and went back home. Edd and I stayed and did the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror (where it drops you in an elevator 13 stories) It was Edd's first ride on it, so it was fun freaking him out. lol After the long 40 minute wait to snuck/blended in with the Fantasmic line and saw Fantasmic. We had such crappy seats. First row at the very left of the ampathetre, but we still saw it and it was so nice. It hit me then that i'm working for such an amazing company that makes so much magic everyday! Love it! I have a few goals down here. To go on every ride, watch every show, see Canada 360 movie 100 times (98 more to go) and to see Fantasmic 100 times (99 more to go). The park closed after Fantasmic so we left but were really hungry so we went to downtown disney to eat at Planet Hollywood. But the bus was incredibly crowded so we ended up taking a resort bus to The Old Key West Resort and caught another resort bus from there to Downtown Disney. I love how us cast members can do whatever we want. lol
Ohh but the best so far is Planet Hollywood. Disney cast members get priority seating. I just flash them my ID and they take us upstairs within 30 seconds. No joke, i was like seriously??? That's amazing. haha
And then we went home after this. I believe i got in around 2:30am this morning. So i was pretty sleep deprived. I slept in unil 1pm today and now i'm just cleaning my room a little, hofully fixed my internet and meeting up with Edd last after he's off and we're going to go watch Illuminations and do some stuff at Epcot.
It's bakc to work for me tomorrow! I'm a stocker in the restraunt, so it's not too bad. Just do my own thing and get yelled at by servers. lol Ohh well.
Next Thursday can't come soon enough though! lol
Other then that, there's nothing really going on. lol
Ohh i guess i should say that FYI, Erik is gay. I'm sleeping over at thee random guys apartments. He's the other canadian in my arrival group so we're close. But he's such a partier. lol Ohh well.
I guess i should go.
Take Caree,
Sam
xox
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
2 weeks!!
Hey Everyone!!
So guess what? I've made two weeks. Well, not offically. It's only 11: 52 and i didn't land until 1:19pm, lol but i think it's close enough.
I'm starting to really enjoy myself down here. I had my last training shift in the restraunt last night. I really didn't like greeting at first. Greeting is when i get the cool walkie and ear piece so i can communicate with the assignor. I get to play with the computer and check guests in for their reservations, as well as book reservations for guests to accomodate them for not having any space left at Le Cellier. I was soo sick of saying "I'm sorry but we're fully booked tonight and for the next 3 months!" lol Pretty much everyone showed up last night too.
So i've been trained on seater, greeter and stock. I think i enjoy seating the most. It's more guest interaction and they're not freaking out at you. Hmm, what else..
So i have my first shift by myself today. Pretty excited about that, on greeting. I'll do my best. My trainer left me half way through my shift yesterday because she kept having coughing fits. So they gave me to Craig, who isn't a trainer but he's awesome. Craig just coached me for the rest of the night and it was great. So i think i'm ready for today. I'm trying to study the menu so i can speil ASAP. I think my trainer was making it up a bit. I doubt i can speil in 2 weeks, but i definatly don't have to wiat 3 or 4 months.
There's not really much else to report on. Graeme decided to stay last night!! I'm happyabout that. He was going to self term, but we convinced him. =)
So last night Edd and Graeme and i sat by the pool and ordered pizza. We attempted to go to 'Girls' but they chickend out and waited outside as i went in the apartment reaking of alcohol to find Kate. I got overwelmed by all the drunk people and couldn't see her, so i left. I talked to her this morning and she was okay with me not staying. I just don't feel comfortable in that environment quite yet. Games night it is for me.
Anyways, i'm going to wrap this up so i can striaghten my hair, have some lunch and studying the menu before i go into work.
Ohhhhh yeah!! We're no longer the newbies!!! YAY!
Melanie and Lindsey arrive today!!! So excited to meet them!!
Take Caree,
Sam
xox
So guess what? I've made two weeks. Well, not offically. It's only 11: 52 and i didn't land until 1:19pm, lol but i think it's close enough.
I'm starting to really enjoy myself down here. I had my last training shift in the restraunt last night. I really didn't like greeting at first. Greeting is when i get the cool walkie and ear piece so i can communicate with the assignor. I get to play with the computer and check guests in for their reservations, as well as book reservations for guests to accomodate them for not having any space left at Le Cellier. I was soo sick of saying "I'm sorry but we're fully booked tonight and for the next 3 months!" lol Pretty much everyone showed up last night too.
So i've been trained on seater, greeter and stock. I think i enjoy seating the most. It's more guest interaction and they're not freaking out at you. Hmm, what else..
So i have my first shift by myself today. Pretty excited about that, on greeting. I'll do my best. My trainer left me half way through my shift yesterday because she kept having coughing fits. So they gave me to Craig, who isn't a trainer but he's awesome. Craig just coached me for the rest of the night and it was great. So i think i'm ready for today. I'm trying to study the menu so i can speil ASAP. I think my trainer was making it up a bit. I doubt i can speil in 2 weeks, but i definatly don't have to wiat 3 or 4 months.
There's not really much else to report on. Graeme decided to stay last night!! I'm happyabout that. He was going to self term, but we convinced him. =)
So last night Edd and Graeme and i sat by the pool and ordered pizza. We attempted to go to 'Girls' but they chickend out and waited outside as i went in the apartment reaking of alcohol to find Kate. I got overwelmed by all the drunk people and couldn't see her, so i left. I talked to her this morning and she was okay with me not staying. I just don't feel comfortable in that environment quite yet. Games night it is for me.
Anyways, i'm going to wrap this up so i can striaghten my hair, have some lunch and studying the menu before i go into work.
Ohhhhh yeah!! We're no longer the newbies!!! YAY!
Melanie and Lindsey arrive today!!! So excited to meet them!!
Take Caree,
Sam
xox
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Cannot think of a good title..
Hey Everyone!!!
So i don't have very much to report on. Funny, when i was back in Victoria i thought i'd be able to blog everynight, but there's not much to talk about.
I worked today at Le Cellier. I was being trained on Stock, which was really boring but not completley terrible. I also found out that if i wanted to i could spiel in two weeks. I'm thinking about it. Get into service within a month of being hired, prettty sweet!
It's stressful though. I was freaking a little when i was bussing tables tonight, but i think it's more because i have no idea what i'm doing and my trainer kept dissapearing on me.
Um.. not really anything else to say. I have my schedule, so for those who are interested.
SCHEDULE:
-MONDAY 4: 1:45-10:15 (Train-Greeter)
-TUESDAY 5: 2:15-10:15 (Greeter)
-WEDNESDAY 6: 11:00-6:00 (Seater)
-THURSDAY 7: OFF (Social Security Day)
-FRIDAY 8: OFF
-SATURDAY 9: 2:00-9:00 (Stock-Popcorn)
-SUNDAY 10: 3:00-9:00 (Seater)
MONDAY 11: 10:00-6:30 (Train-Popcorn)
TUESDAY 12: 2:00-10:00 (Popcorn)
WEDNESDAY 13: 2:30-11:30 (Popcorn)
THURSDAY 14: OFF
FRIDAY 15: OFF
SATURDAY 16: 1:00-6:00 (A la Carte - Disney University)
So that's about it.
Take Caree,
Sam
So i don't have very much to report on. Funny, when i was back in Victoria i thought i'd be able to blog everynight, but there's not much to talk about.
I worked today at Le Cellier. I was being trained on Stock, which was really boring but not completley terrible. I also found out that if i wanted to i could spiel in two weeks. I'm thinking about it. Get into service within a month of being hired, prettty sweet!
It's stressful though. I was freaking a little when i was bussing tables tonight, but i think it's more because i have no idea what i'm doing and my trainer kept dissapearing on me.
Um.. not really anything else to say. I have my schedule, so for those who are interested.
SCHEDULE:
-MONDAY 4: 1:45-10:15 (Train-Greeter)
-TUESDAY 5: 2:15-10:15 (Greeter)
-WEDNESDAY 6: 11:00-6:00 (Seater)
-THURSDAY 7: OFF (Social Security Day)
-FRIDAY 8: OFF
-SATURDAY 9: 2:00-9:00 (Stock-Popcorn)
-SUNDAY 10: 3:00-9:00 (Seater)
MONDAY 11: 10:00-6:30 (Train-Popcorn)
TUESDAY 12: 2:00-10:00 (Popcorn)
WEDNESDAY 13: 2:30-11:30 (Popcorn)
THURSDAY 14: OFF
FRIDAY 15: OFF
SATURDAY 16: 1:00-6:00 (A la Carte - Disney University)
So that's about it.
Take Caree,
Sam
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Back to work..
Hey Everyone!!
How's everyone doing? I hope everything is well with everyone else!
I'm doing pretty well. I've come to learn that i much perfer working then having days off here. It's the days off that make me lonley and homesick. I was managed to be ditched 5 different times today. Ohh well. Cest le vie.
Tonight was a lot of fun. Around 11:00pm, Graeme, Edd and I headed to the pool and were just chilling outside of it and eventually Edd got in. After maybe 10 minutes of him swimming i couldn't take it any longer so i just jumped in, fully clothed with jeans and all. It was terrible! lol Really didn't think that one through to well. I ended up walking back to my apartment dripping wet when security kicked us out at 1am. Earlier today i hung around Graeme at his apartment. He got pissed by 2 in the afternoon as he was cleaning his kitchen. We were listening to my I-Pod singing soo loudly to lame Disney songs! Haha Soo much fun though. I'll never forget it. He ended up sitting in his kitchen sink at one point. Very classy. LOL
Um.. ohh and later on i went to Hollywood Studios with David. That was pretty fun. We only had a couple hours until the park closed so we just did Twilight Zone tower of terror, star tours, and the great movie ride. Not too bad. lol
I'm going back on Thursday with Edd and some others and we're also going to see FANTASMIC! Omg, so excited!
Ohhh Melanie arrives on Tuesday, which means there's a throw in on Wednesday! Yay, it'll be nice to go to one so i can take pictures and videos and not be in the middle of the room with 30 Canadians starring at you!
I'm trying my best to hang out with Canadians now. I'm going to Girls on Monday night mainly because it's Kate's birthday. Gotta go, what little sister would i be if i didn't. haha
Crap, well my internet has shit off now, so i'm not sure how i'm going to post this but we'll figure something out.
Talk to you soon!!
Ohh yeah, i work 1:30-10:00pm today, so excited! Nice 9 and a half hour long shift full of stocking! haha
Goodnight
Sam
xox
P.s - some pictures i've added! :
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=250866&id=647590552&l=531eb4f676
EPCOT with Edd
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=251587&id=647590552&l=4e1147ec65
Hollywood Studios with David
How's everyone doing? I hope everything is well with everyone else!
I'm doing pretty well. I've come to learn that i much perfer working then having days off here. It's the days off that make me lonley and homesick. I was managed to be ditched 5 different times today. Ohh well. Cest le vie.
Tonight was a lot of fun. Around 11:00pm, Graeme, Edd and I headed to the pool and were just chilling outside of it and eventually Edd got in. After maybe 10 minutes of him swimming i couldn't take it any longer so i just jumped in, fully clothed with jeans and all. It was terrible! lol Really didn't think that one through to well. I ended up walking back to my apartment dripping wet when security kicked us out at 1am. Earlier today i hung around Graeme at his apartment. He got pissed by 2 in the afternoon as he was cleaning his kitchen. We were listening to my I-Pod singing soo loudly to lame Disney songs! Haha Soo much fun though. I'll never forget it. He ended up sitting in his kitchen sink at one point. Very classy. LOL
Um.. ohh and later on i went to Hollywood Studios with David. That was pretty fun. We only had a couple hours until the park closed so we just did Twilight Zone tower of terror, star tours, and the great movie ride. Not too bad. lol
I'm going back on Thursday with Edd and some others and we're also going to see FANTASMIC! Omg, so excited!
Ohhh Melanie arrives on Tuesday, which means there's a throw in on Wednesday! Yay, it'll be nice to go to one so i can take pictures and videos and not be in the middle of the room with 30 Canadians starring at you!
I'm trying my best to hang out with Canadians now. I'm going to Girls on Monday night mainly because it's Kate's birthday. Gotta go, what little sister would i be if i didn't. haha
Crap, well my internet has shit off now, so i'm not sure how i'm going to post this but we'll figure something out.
Talk to you soon!!
Ohh yeah, i work 1:30-10:00pm today, so excited! Nice 9 and a half hour long shift full of stocking! haha
Goodnight
Sam
xox
P.s - some pictures i've added! :
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=250866&id=647590552&l=531eb4f676
EPCOT with Edd
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=251587&id=647590552&l=4e1147ec65
Hollywood Studios with David
Friday, May 1, 2009
Soo scratch that.
I put all my photos on Facebook, and i know some of you don't have it, but i can post different links to the albums, even if you don't have facebook. So here we go:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=247742&id=647590552&l=c42fea4510
Arriving in Orlando
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=250858&id=647590552&l=3dd9ad3922
My new home - THE COMMONS
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=247748&id=647590552&l=80b96a4413
Welcome to Disney
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=248053&id=647590552&l=b27640a31c
Life around The Commons, including some of the throw-in pictures
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=248336&id=647590552&l=513496caf8
Blizzard Beach - Disney Water Park
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=250864&id=647590552&l=51c2f22450
Random Magical Moments 2009-2010
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=250860&id=647590552&l=64add84a8e
Magic Kingdom - With Edd, Heather, Robyn, and Louisa (First trip to a disney park)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=250861&id=647590552&l=5c8016d82d
Magic Kingdom - With the Brits ;)
So that's all i have uploaded online for now. If my internet starts to work soon, i'll post more.
I must go because i think i'm hogging up too much time in the computer lab.
Ohh and i need to look up some good canadian facts. (I realized last night that i know nothing about Canada)
Take Caree,
Sam
xox
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=247742&id=647590552&l=c42fea4510
Arriving in Orlando
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=250858&id=647590552&l=3dd9ad3922
My new home - THE COMMONS
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=247748&id=647590552&l=80b96a4413
Welcome to Disney
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=248053&id=647590552&l=b27640a31c
Life around The Commons, including some of the throw-in pictures
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=248336&id=647590552&l=513496caf8
Blizzard Beach - Disney Water Park
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=250864&id=647590552&l=51c2f22450
Random Magical Moments 2009-2010
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=250860&id=647590552&l=64add84a8e
Magic Kingdom - With Edd, Heather, Robyn, and Louisa (First trip to a disney park)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=250861&id=647590552&l=5c8016d82d
Magic Kingdom - With the Brits ;)
So that's all i have uploaded online for now. If my internet starts to work soon, i'll post more.
I must go because i think i'm hogging up too much time in the computer lab.
Ohh and i need to look up some good canadian facts. (I realized last night that i know nothing about Canada)
Take Caree,
Sam
xox
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Staying for good + First day of work
Hey Everyone!!
So i wasn't going to write this on here, but pretty much EVERYONE here knows now i guess it's no secret. Yesterday morning when i woke up i decided i was going to self term myself. Which means basically i would go home. I got all dressed in my costume (first day of work on stage) and i got to the bus stop and then walked back to my apartment. I didn't think i could do it, i didn't want to be here, etc. I called everyone and told them, packed up my room and got yelled at, of course. Had a good cry because i was starting to regret my decision, but it was too late in my mind because i had no showed my first shift at work. So i was freaking. I finally got a hold of Edd and talked to him about it. I then talked to Heather when she was off work and helped me through it, called my manager and told him i was sorry and i did infact want to stay and all that stuff. He was really understanding and allowed me to stay. I was afraid to tell him the truth because i thought if they knew that i had any thoughts of self term, they'd beat me to it. But they didn't! =) So in saying that, i'm staying and my first day of actual work was today. I was a PM seater. Soo much fun, i loved it to death and am so glad i changed my mind!
I get this smal boost of adrenilne when i'm seating which i really enjoy. It was so nice to be around so many Canadians and of course i got to gloar to guests about canada and victoria!!
It's such an amazing feeling to know you're touching these guests so much and making such good magical moments.
I relaly gotta go, no joke u'm falling asleep at the computer.
Goodnight
So i wasn't going to write this on here, but pretty much EVERYONE here knows now i guess it's no secret. Yesterday morning when i woke up i decided i was going to self term myself. Which means basically i would go home. I got all dressed in my costume (first day of work on stage) and i got to the bus stop and then walked back to my apartment. I didn't think i could do it, i didn't want to be here, etc. I called everyone and told them, packed up my room and got yelled at, of course. Had a good cry because i was starting to regret my decision, but it was too late in my mind because i had no showed my first shift at work. So i was freaking. I finally got a hold of Edd and talked to him about it. I then talked to Heather when she was off work and helped me through it, called my manager and told him i was sorry and i did infact want to stay and all that stuff. He was really understanding and allowed me to stay. I was afraid to tell him the truth because i thought if they knew that i had any thoughts of self term, they'd beat me to it. But they didn't! =) So in saying that, i'm staying and my first day of actual work was today. I was a PM seater. Soo much fun, i loved it to death and am so glad i changed my mind!
I get this smal boost of adrenilne when i'm seating which i really enjoy. It was so nice to be around so many Canadians and of course i got to gloar to guests about canada and victoria!!
It's such an amazing feeling to know you're touching these guests so much and making such good magical moments.
I relaly gotta go, no joke u'm falling asleep at the computer.
Goodnight
Monday, April 27, 2009
Working, working, and working some more!
Hey Everyone!!
Sorry it's been so long since i've updated this. Well, it hasn't actually but i'm trying to update everyday if i can. Anyways, since my last update i've done traditions, another training session at Disney University, and training day at EPCOT. Tomorrow i have discovery day, and then Wednesday i actually start "on stage". I'm soo physically exhausted. Like i've been spending SOOO much time at the parks that i'm getting home really late which means i go to sleep around 1:30am or so and then waking up ariound 5am. It's to the point that i'm not getting much from training because it's taking all my energy just to stay awake. No joke, at all! lol
I worked 8:00-4:30pm today, and i have no plans tonight other then completely relaxing and well taking it easy. I think i'm starting to get sick or something. I feel really achy and gross. Then again, it could just be the weather and the humidity. Traditions was fun because are instructor was really cool and soo full of energy, but it really was boring. Doubt i would have actually stayed awake if it wasn't for her. It was the same yesterday at are training. Only it was mostly at the computer so it wasn't so bad. On Saturday night after traditions: Edd, Heather, Louise, and myself went to Magic Kingdom. First park i went too. Sooo much fun! Heather's really cool and it was soo nice to hang around some Canadians!! Like you have no idea!
I'm hoping once i start working i'll be spending more time with them.
Hmm.. what else to say, on yeah, today in training we met one of are managers and she talked with us for a couple hours and gave us all this cool stuff. After, she showed us around the restraunt, which was awesome. I LOVE being backstage. It makes me feel SOOO important, even if i'm not. lol
There's not much else to report on i guess. I went to Magic Kingdom with the British all afternoon and evening; that was fun! I really wanted to go with AJ because he'd never been before, so it was great seeing the excitment on his face. Umm.. i guess that's it for now.
I hope all of you have a magical day! lol
Take Caree,
Sam
Sorry it's been so long since i've updated this. Well, it hasn't actually but i'm trying to update everyday if i can. Anyways, since my last update i've done traditions, another training session at Disney University, and training day at EPCOT. Tomorrow i have discovery day, and then Wednesday i actually start "on stage". I'm soo physically exhausted. Like i've been spending SOOO much time at the parks that i'm getting home really late which means i go to sleep around 1:30am or so and then waking up ariound 5am. It's to the point that i'm not getting much from training because it's taking all my energy just to stay awake. No joke, at all! lol
I worked 8:00-4:30pm today, and i have no plans tonight other then completely relaxing and well taking it easy. I think i'm starting to get sick or something. I feel really achy and gross. Then again, it could just be the weather and the humidity. Traditions was fun because are instructor was really cool and soo full of energy, but it really was boring. Doubt i would have actually stayed awake if it wasn't for her. It was the same yesterday at are training. Only it was mostly at the computer so it wasn't so bad. On Saturday night after traditions: Edd, Heather, Louise, and myself went to Magic Kingdom. First park i went too. Sooo much fun! Heather's really cool and it was soo nice to hang around some Canadians!! Like you have no idea!
I'm hoping once i start working i'll be spending more time with them.
Hmm.. what else to say, on yeah, today in training we met one of are managers and she talked with us for a couple hours and gave us all this cool stuff. After, she showed us around the restraunt, which was awesome. I LOVE being backstage. It makes me feel SOOO important, even if i'm not. lol
There's not much else to report on i guess. I went to Magic Kingdom with the British all afternoon and evening; that was fun! I really wanted to go with AJ because he'd never been before, so it was great seeing the excitment on his face. Umm.. i guess that's it for now.
I hope all of you have a magical day! lol
Take Caree,
Sam
Friday, April 24, 2009
Day Off
Hey Everyone!!!
So i'm starting to make a habit of waking up at a decent hour and hitting the computer lab until my internet is figured out. So i have today off, which is great. It's beautiful out, and we're all planning on going to Blizzard Beach, only problem is, is we have no idea what time we're leaving. I tried calling some people this morning when i woke up, but no one picked up. Ohh well.
It's starting to hit me more and more. Traditions is tomorrow and that's our first day of actual work! Soo excited. The only thing that sucks about it, is we have to be at the bus stop by 6:15am!! And it's about 10 hours long! Icckk! Ohhw ell, it'll be worth it.
After Traditions on Sat we all get our park passes, so saturday night is when i get to actually go to Disneyworld. Pretty excited about that.
What else is new with me?? Nothing really. Went for a late swim last night withEdd, that was a lot of fun. I think i must have set an all time record for going to the outlet mall three different times yesterday. I went there for lunch, shopping with Edd, and then shopping with all the other Brits in the evening. Soo much fun. I'm going to try and set up an album somewhere and post a link.
I'm pretty much liking it here now, still have my down moments, but i wont leave. It'll be okay. I love talking to the Canadians. It makes me feel soo much more at home. Plus i don't have to listen really carfully listen. Like with i'm talking to the British i have to be really paying attention, because they have soo many different words and most of them have very strong British accents.
I don't think i have much else to say. I hoping we do make it to Blizzard Beach - the water park.
I wont be writing in here tomorrow because i know i'm going to be wayy to exhausted.
Speak soon
Take Caree,
Sam
So i'm starting to make a habit of waking up at a decent hour and hitting the computer lab until my internet is figured out. So i have today off, which is great. It's beautiful out, and we're all planning on going to Blizzard Beach, only problem is, is we have no idea what time we're leaving. I tried calling some people this morning when i woke up, but no one picked up. Ohh well.
It's starting to hit me more and more. Traditions is tomorrow and that's our first day of actual work! Soo excited. The only thing that sucks about it, is we have to be at the bus stop by 6:15am!! And it's about 10 hours long! Icckk! Ohhw ell, it'll be worth it.
After Traditions on Sat we all get our park passes, so saturday night is when i get to actually go to Disneyworld. Pretty excited about that.
What else is new with me?? Nothing really. Went for a late swim last night withEdd, that was a lot of fun. I think i must have set an all time record for going to the outlet mall three different times yesterday. I went there for lunch, shopping with Edd, and then shopping with all the other Brits in the evening. Soo much fun. I'm going to try and set up an album somewhere and post a link.
I'm pretty much liking it here now, still have my down moments, but i wont leave. It'll be okay. I love talking to the Canadians. It makes me feel soo much more at home. Plus i don't have to listen really carfully listen. Like with i'm talking to the British i have to be really paying attention, because they have soo many different words and most of them have very strong British accents.
I don't think i have much else to say. I hoping we do make it to Blizzard Beach - the water park.
I wont be writing in here tomorrow because i know i'm going to be wayy to exhausted.
Speak soon
Take Caree,
Sam
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Finally arrived!
hey Everyone!
I'm SOOOOO sorry it's taken me this long for a little update. There's been so much going on, and my internet hasn't reallly cooperated with me. Caronline and i are thinking about buying wireless this weekend. We'll see what happens.
So, first things first, DISNEY is soo much fun! I hated it when i arrived. I wanted to go home, and i was soo homesick, but after the throw in last night, ohh it's soo much fun! I think i needed some Canadians to bring my spirits up! I have 3 roommates. German, and 2 South African. They're soo nice, and i was very lucky to get them!
Getting into the US was terrible. In Toronto i was sent back and forth through customs about 6 or 7 different times. They kept giving me the wrong forms and then i'd have to take my luggage alll the way abck to west jet and then abck to customs. Ughh terrible. And then i was the random check at security. Soo embarassing and i just stood there. It sucked. So after i like ran into the bathroom and just cried. I was soo upset and angry and SOOO tired too!
And then when i arrived i met up with Edd and we hung out for a bit. I've noticed that it's very segrated here. Like everyone kinda sticks to their own country, which is a shame.
Umm.. oh yeah, yesterday i got my ID for the commons and had some boring orientations. After i went out for lunch with Ana, and then went to Walmart with the UK's. After walmart we all went and hung by the pool. Soo much fun.
Ohh and the best part about last night was definatly the throw in!! teh Canadian throw in was so much fun, words can't describe it. It was very loud and very intoxicated! (not me) I can't say much because future arrivals are reading this.
But i was assigned a big sister, Kate! Couldn't have been better!! She's from Victoria!! So cool!!
That's really it for now. Hopfully when i get my internet figured out i can come on a little more and write more detialed posts.
Anyways, take caree for now.
Samm
xox
I'm SOOOOO sorry it's taken me this long for a little update. There's been so much going on, and my internet hasn't reallly cooperated with me. Caronline and i are thinking about buying wireless this weekend. We'll see what happens.
So, first things first, DISNEY is soo much fun! I hated it when i arrived. I wanted to go home, and i was soo homesick, but after the throw in last night, ohh it's soo much fun! I think i needed some Canadians to bring my spirits up! I have 3 roommates. German, and 2 South African. They're soo nice, and i was very lucky to get them!
Getting into the US was terrible. In Toronto i was sent back and forth through customs about 6 or 7 different times. They kept giving me the wrong forms and then i'd have to take my luggage alll the way abck to west jet and then abck to customs. Ughh terrible. And then i was the random check at security. Soo embarassing and i just stood there. It sucked. So after i like ran into the bathroom and just cried. I was soo upset and angry and SOOO tired too!
And then when i arrived i met up with Edd and we hung out for a bit. I've noticed that it's very segrated here. Like everyone kinda sticks to their own country, which is a shame.
Umm.. oh yeah, yesterday i got my ID for the commons and had some boring orientations. After i went out for lunch with Ana, and then went to Walmart with the UK's. After walmart we all went and hung by the pool. Soo much fun.
Ohh and the best part about last night was definatly the throw in!! teh Canadian throw in was so much fun, words can't describe it. It was very loud and very intoxicated! (not me) I can't say much because future arrivals are reading this.
But i was assigned a big sister, Kate! Couldn't have been better!! She's from Victoria!! So cool!!
That's really it for now. Hopfully when i get my internet figured out i can come on a little more and write more detialed posts.
Anyways, take caree for now.
Samm
xox
Monday, April 20, 2009
On my way and in Calgary!
Hey Everyone!!
So i am offically on my way! I'm sitting in Calgary at the Airport, waiting for my flight to Toronto.
It's begun to hit me!! I'm actually moving to Disneyworld!! It's sad because i'm not going to see these people for soo long, but it'll be good for me. I had a good couple tears after leaving them.
So, the light was really good. Very easy, and i'm hoping the next two will be the same.
I honestly don't have very much to report on. The Calgary airport is kinda neat, although i havn't left the gate that i arrived at, because it's the same gate as where ii'm boarding!
Umm, i guess i just wanna voice how much i appreciate everyone and what they've done to help me get here. Sandi and my Mom helping paying for my flight and hotel for my Interview in Toronto and then everything that people have done to get me here!!
THANK YOU!!!!! =)
I'm going to do my very best try and post here as often as i can, but i believe my first couple weeks will be crazyyyyyyy! Umm.. soo i guess i better get going? Lol
I don't know what else to say.
I will try my absolute hardest to post in here tomorrow night and give you a full update.
So for now, this is it!
Take Caree,
Sam
So i am offically on my way! I'm sitting in Calgary at the Airport, waiting for my flight to Toronto.
It's begun to hit me!! I'm actually moving to Disneyworld!! It's sad because i'm not going to see these people for soo long, but it'll be good for me. I had a good couple tears after leaving them.
So, the light was really good. Very easy, and i'm hoping the next two will be the same.
I honestly don't have very much to report on. The Calgary airport is kinda neat, although i havn't left the gate that i arrived at, because it's the same gate as where ii'm boarding!
Umm, i guess i just wanna voice how much i appreciate everyone and what they've done to help me get here. Sandi and my Mom helping paying for my flight and hotel for my Interview in Toronto and then everything that people have done to get me here!!
THANK YOU!!!!! =)
I'm going to do my very best try and post here as often as i can, but i believe my first couple weeks will be crazyyyyyyy! Umm.. soo i guess i better get going? Lol
I don't know what else to say.
I will try my absolute hardest to post in here tomorrow night and give you a full update.
So for now, this is it!
Take Caree,
Sam
Friday, April 17, 2009
Car Accident with three days to go!
Hey Everyone!!
So, two and a half days left!! I'm getting sooo excited again!!! =)
I bought my American money today, but might go get some more on Monday morning when i'm out. The exchange rate is terrible! I lost 60$
Anyways, so i'm having the hardest time trying to fit everyone in. I'm trying to spend lots of time with EVERYONE, but it's hard! I'm spending the afternoon cleaning (like physical scrubbing) my room. Everything is for the most part packed up. Finishing some laundry and then later tonight i'm going bowling with Hollie out in Sidney! =)
SHould be fun. Ohh on a bad note, i got into a car accident last night. Not cool. It wasn't that bad, but i was really scared and in a lot of shock. I stopped at a crosswalk for a pedestrian on Fort St. I was competley stopped and same with the car behind me, but the truck behind her wasn't..and he was going really fast. So he slammed into her which made her slam into me. Everyone was fine, my neck is pretty sore, but it's just whiplash i believe. There wasn't really any damage to the car. I mean you can see where she hit, but really the only major damage was the guys truck.
It was weird, once i had stopped i heard the guys tires screech and him hit her. My first thought was, HAHA..why wern't you paying attention, and then i got hit. lol, so yeah. He had to be going about 60 before he stopped. Anywayss, all is fine now. The coolest part i guess what all the attention. 3 police cars (two of them were the big vans), 2 firetrucks and 1 ambulance came to the scene. But it's all fine.
So just thought i'd share my bad news, and yeah. I got an e-mail from Kristen this morning wishing me good luck and told me some cool facts about FLorida.
For those of you who've been to Disneyland before.. well, the entire Disneyland could fit into just the magic kingdom parking lot!! That's a big parking lot (considering it takes you about 3 or 4 days to do everything in disneyland), ohh and Disneyworld is double the size of Manhatten!! Anndd, apparently more people visit the EPCOT Norway pavillion then people are in Norway right now! cRAZY!!
I better go though.
I'll keep you guys posted!!
Take Care,
Sam
So, two and a half days left!! I'm getting sooo excited again!!! =)
I bought my American money today, but might go get some more on Monday morning when i'm out. The exchange rate is terrible! I lost 60$
Anyways, so i'm having the hardest time trying to fit everyone in. I'm trying to spend lots of time with EVERYONE, but it's hard! I'm spending the afternoon cleaning (like physical scrubbing) my room. Everything is for the most part packed up. Finishing some laundry and then later tonight i'm going bowling with Hollie out in Sidney! =)
SHould be fun. Ohh on a bad note, i got into a car accident last night. Not cool. It wasn't that bad, but i was really scared and in a lot of shock. I stopped at a crosswalk for a pedestrian on Fort St. I was competley stopped and same with the car behind me, but the truck behind her wasn't..and he was going really fast. So he slammed into her which made her slam into me. Everyone was fine, my neck is pretty sore, but it's just whiplash i believe. There wasn't really any damage to the car. I mean you can see where she hit, but really the only major damage was the guys truck.
It was weird, once i had stopped i heard the guys tires screech and him hit her. My first thought was, HAHA..why wern't you paying attention, and then i got hit. lol, so yeah. He had to be going about 60 before he stopped. Anywayss, all is fine now. The coolest part i guess what all the attention. 3 police cars (two of them were the big vans), 2 firetrucks and 1 ambulance came to the scene. But it's all fine.
So just thought i'd share my bad news, and yeah. I got an e-mail from Kristen this morning wishing me good luck and told me some cool facts about FLorida.
For those of you who've been to Disneyland before.. well, the entire Disneyland could fit into just the magic kingdom parking lot!! That's a big parking lot (considering it takes you about 3 or 4 days to do everything in disneyland), ohh and Disneyworld is double the size of Manhatten!! Anndd, apparently more people visit the EPCOT Norway pavillion then people are in Norway right now! cRAZY!!
I better go though.
I'll keep you guys posted!!
Take Care,
Sam
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Less than a week!!
Hey Everyone!!!
So i thought i'd blog because i'm leaving iin just under a week.
I have six days to go, and i can hardly wait. I'm lying in bed, watching In Treatment. I bought the first season a couple weeks ago, and i loveee it!! The second season is pretty good so far, but it's only the beginning of the second week.
Anyways, so i'm all packed up and this week i'm spending lots of time with people. Today i went out with my dad in the morning and we ended up at Starbucks. We chatted about things, so it was nice. Later in the afternoon Hollie and i got together and went out for dinner. :)
Tomorrow, i have to wait around the house in the morning to be here when my mom's tredmil arrives. Fun stuff, eh? Haha And then after.. well later at night around 5:30 i'm meeting up with Robin, from work for coffee. We're going to chat for about an hour and then we're meeting up with Shadie and Ericka to walk to my dinner at Moxies. I'm really excited for it because Hazel's going to be there, and Benet. I havn't seen Hazel since January, and Benet since like November. It shall me good!!! On Wednesday i'm meeting up with my mom to figure out some things with my bank, and then spending the afternoon with Alex. In the evening, Hollie and i are getting together and having our last coffee date, obviously at Tim Hortans! Thursday, i don't have too much planned. I'm probably going to like actually scrub down my room for the majority of the day and in the evening, Hollie and I are having a games night. We've been planning it for quite some time, so it should be exciting! And around midnight, Rachael and I are going to the midnight skate at Oak Bay! It'll be my last skate for a LONGGG time!! =(
Friday..hmm, again.. not much planned until the evening. Hollie and i are going bowling!! Going to be fun! Havn't bowled in AGES! On Saturday, i'm seeing Erin. We're being super dooper cool and going out for dinner, but dressing up in our grad dresses!! It's going to be so much fun.
We're going to come back to my place and hopfully drinking lots! I gotta make it count. This will be the last time i drink illegially, underage. LOL
Anyways.. and then Sunday i'm going out for dinner at Azumma's for my last dinner with my family.
Ohhhh a great thing is i ran into Danika today! We chatted and caught up. I don't not like her, she said she can't be friends with me because i have too many connections to Alex. Ohh well.
I'm getting really excited again for Disney. I can't believe that in one week today, i'll be in the air, flying from Calgary to Toronto.
I'm trying to think of more to say, but i really can't think of anything.
I need to finish watching my episode and get some sleep. I gotta get up in about 7 hours. Ickk!
Take Caree,
Sam
xox
So i thought i'd blog because i'm leaving iin just under a week.
I have six days to go, and i can hardly wait. I'm lying in bed, watching In Treatment. I bought the first season a couple weeks ago, and i loveee it!! The second season is pretty good so far, but it's only the beginning of the second week.
Anyways, so i'm all packed up and this week i'm spending lots of time with people. Today i went out with my dad in the morning and we ended up at Starbucks. We chatted about things, so it was nice. Later in the afternoon Hollie and i got together and went out for dinner. :)
Tomorrow, i have to wait around the house in the morning to be here when my mom's tredmil arrives. Fun stuff, eh? Haha And then after.. well later at night around 5:30 i'm meeting up with Robin, from work for coffee. We're going to chat for about an hour and then we're meeting up with Shadie and Ericka to walk to my dinner at Moxies. I'm really excited for it because Hazel's going to be there, and Benet. I havn't seen Hazel since January, and Benet since like November. It shall me good!!! On Wednesday i'm meeting up with my mom to figure out some things with my bank, and then spending the afternoon with Alex. In the evening, Hollie and i are getting together and having our last coffee date, obviously at Tim Hortans! Thursday, i don't have too much planned. I'm probably going to like actually scrub down my room for the majority of the day and in the evening, Hollie and I are having a games night. We've been planning it for quite some time, so it should be exciting! And around midnight, Rachael and I are going to the midnight skate at Oak Bay! It'll be my last skate for a LONGGG time!! =(
Friday..hmm, again.. not much planned until the evening. Hollie and i are going bowling!! Going to be fun! Havn't bowled in AGES! On Saturday, i'm seeing Erin. We're being super dooper cool and going out for dinner, but dressing up in our grad dresses!! It's going to be so much fun.
We're going to come back to my place and hopfully drinking lots! I gotta make it count. This will be the last time i drink illegially, underage. LOL
Anyways.. and then Sunday i'm going out for dinner at Azumma's for my last dinner with my family.
Ohhhh a great thing is i ran into Danika today! We chatted and caught up. I don't not like her, she said she can't be friends with me because i have too many connections to Alex. Ohh well.
I'm getting really excited again for Disney. I can't believe that in one week today, i'll be in the air, flying from Calgary to Toronto.
I'm trying to think of more to say, but i really can't think of anything.
I need to finish watching my episode and get some sleep. I gotta get up in about 7 hours. Ickk!
Take Caree,
Sam
xox
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