See told you I'd try to be better....
Woo I'm actually updating my blog today about... TODAY! It was a long day and tomorrows an early morning so again I may skimp a few unimportant details (if you want more info contact me I think my contact info is around somewhere here).
Today started early because I had a few things to do before the 11:45 am bus to Traditions. I decided last night while typing my blog I was going to get up at 8 and head for a quick swim in the Chatham pool. Just as nice as it was when I arrived but no one was in it. I didn't stay long before coming home to get showered for my next morning adventure (and the main reason I had to get up before traditions).
When I got my Chatham ID, apparently someone forgot to laminate it and for the past two days everytime I touched it (ie to board a bus or enter a housing property) I basically erased something. I found out yesterday I had to travel to Vista (probably a 20 min or less bus ride) just to get a new one. Since I wanted this before traditions that left this morning for me to make the trip. It was pretty uneventful, like going to get your drivers liscence, and thankfully I got home and had some time to relax before heading off to Traditions. I did some tinkering with my pictures to attempt to make them work better but am still not ready to try (I'm actually thinking tomorrow my picture site SHOULD work).
Anyway about 11:15ish I got in my suit to go to Traditions (needed formal wear). Thankfully it didn't seem that hot out when I went off to the bus. All of us new people had a special charter bus to the Disney University for this class and it was interesting to see the what some people considered professional attire, yet none were turned away (as you would be if you aren't dressed appropriate), at least none that I saw...
Anyway our traditions was a 4 hour course, and apparently it's usually an 8 hour course so I feel privlidaged (I'm sure that's spelt wrong...)! Traditions was basically our first work day, meaning I am going to get paid for it! In a nut shell traditions is a course that EVERY employee at Disney has to take before starting work. It's a basic training course (Safety, policies, etc.) combined with a history of the company. It started off interesting but got a little dry when we entered the topic of the policies. One cool thing is that some people got little figurienes when the answered a question correctly. My whole table got one each, and not to toot my own horn it was mostly because of me.
What we had to do was we had 90 seconds to list as many animated Disney characters as possilbe, and my group actually won by 3 with 38 different characters. My group elected me to be "captain" so I got to write down the names... good choice because I just flew without a lot of input for the team (but not to take all their credit they did each help out while I was going). It wasn't the neatest writing but spelling didn't count. The list we came up with was Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald, Chip (chipmunk), Dale, Belle, Beast, Chip (cup from Beauty and the Beast), Mrs. potts, Auroa, Snow White, Sleepy, Grumpy, Dopy, Doc, Sneezy (yes only 5/7), Peter Pan, Captain Hook, Tinkerbell, Timon, Pumba, Jafar, Aladdin, Jafar (yes I listed him twice but he only counted once), Iago, Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Duey, Louie, Alice, White Rabbit, Mad Hatter, Queen of Hearts, Mike (Monsters Inc), Sulley, Boo, Nemo, Lightning McQueen.
My strategy involved picking one movie and writing every character I could think of as fast as I could and the second I got stuck I'd pick a new movie. My teamates helped by calling naming characters that I didn't have and that helped me pick a new movie. So we got our little figurines and I dunno what I was looking at when they arrived but when I looked down two people had grabbed the Goofy's, and one had grabbed Simba leaving me with Minnie Mouse. Now this isn't bad at all but out of the 3 types to choose from she is my least favorite. Oh well I got something out if it and it still is cool in that sense.
Also while at traditions in one of the two breaks they gave us I went to Company D (a Disney Castmember only store) to buy a lanyard for both my Chatham ID and my Disney ID. Along with getting our Disney ID at Traditions we also got our name tags, which a picutre of will appear in my pictues when I get the time to figure out whats going on with them).
Once traditions was over I was in a big hurry to get back to Chatham because a large group of us was going to the Magic Kingdom. It turned out that we were going to have about 45 minutes at chatham before we left so I called Jei (who got a Florida cell today) and both her and her roomate Amanda came over to join us since the bus to Magic Kingdom dosn;t leave from their housing complex. Seven of us made the trip, Me, Jei, Amanda, Jared, Matt, Wilkins and Christine. When we arrived we met up with John and began heading over to The Jungle Cruise to see if Louisa was working (someone that they know better than me who's on a program.)
Whe we arrived it turned out she was working and running a boat today which would have been cool but we decided to pass on waiting in line, with the potential to wait another 10-15 minutes for her boat... Maybe next time. We then moved on to Splash Mountain where we decided to get Fast Passes and end our night with, and went to Big Thunder Mountain.
Now this was Amanda's first time at any Disney park so I think this was a good ride for her to experience as a first ride. It wasn't a very long wait and is longer than the one in Anaheim for sure. When it was finished we met Matt Chan and his roomate Matt (yes that makes 3 matts in the group.......) and headed off to The Haunted Mansion to see Shanan and ride the ride. She was working up front in a position I believe is called greeter (too bad I wanted to ride in her stretching room ah well). After a quick chat we headed into the ride which is slightly different (I think maybe a bit longer) than the one in Anaheim... the outside of the building is definatly different!
Anyway after this we figured Space Mountain would be a good bet, since there was a parade starting so we headed off across the park to experience it. We got seperated and Me, Amanda, Matheiu, and Willkins were on our own. In my rocket Jei was in front, with me in the middle and Wilkins in the back... Jei was almost more entertaining than the ride itself! We were then offered (by matts roomate who was unloading) another ride so back we went and were on before we knew it. This time I got the front of my rocked and I rather enjoyed that seat.
After our two space mountain times we decided to head to Splash Mountain to use our fastpasses, and this is where Matt Chan and his roomate bid us goodbye. It was about this time our fast passes became active however the parade was just ending by splash mountain thus there was still a mad mob... we got in pretty quickly though, and luckily there was 8 of us, perfect for the 8 person log.
THe Wishes fireworks started while we were on the ride so that was quite cool to see, well from what little we could see of it, but I'm sure you can all guess what that ment for our park exit plans..... Anyway John and me were thinking about buying the picture and it was cool looking so we did. We got two prints for about 8 bucks each which was a pretty good deal (smaller than normal but a normal sice one is currently 17 bucksish!), and everyone started their treck to the exit of the park.
Of course it was about this time the fireworks ended and when we reached mainstreet we hit a major traffic jam. John was going to stay with Christine and Jared, so the rest of us headed off to move slowly through the crowd. When we reached the main enterance somehow we noticed Christine and Jared ahead of us so we met up with them again, apparently John lost his cellphone today somewhere in the MK (although it would have had to have been, Space Mountain, Splash Mountain or while walking).
Once outside we had to wait a bit for a monorail (due to the crowds) and when we arrived where we needed to go no one knew where to go for our bus, it pulled up as we were arriving to the correct spot so we all headed back to Chatham where Amanda and Jei headed back off to the commons.
Tomorrow morning I have basic Food and Beverage training at 7, but I need to catch a bus at 6 which means aprox a 5 am wake up time (4 hours away) so I should be off. After work I plan on going and setting up my bank accout and getting work shoes. Jei wants to go to Animal Kingdom just to ride everest but I don't think we're going to have time when her Traditions is over. If not I plan on relaxing around chatham, I need a bit of a break!
Today started early because I had a few things to do before the 11:45 am bus to Traditions. I decided last night while typing my blog I was going to get up at 8 and head for a quick swim in the Chatham pool. Just as nice as it was when I arrived but no one was in it. I didn't stay long before coming home to get showered for my next morning adventure (and the main reason I had to get up before traditions).
When I got my Chatham ID, apparently someone forgot to laminate it and for the past two days everytime I touched it (ie to board a bus or enter a housing property) I basically erased something. I found out yesterday I had to travel to Vista (probably a 20 min or less bus ride) just to get a new one. Since I wanted this before traditions that left this morning for me to make the trip. It was pretty uneventful, like going to get your drivers liscence, and thankfully I got home and had some time to relax before heading off to Traditions. I did some tinkering with my pictures to attempt to make them work better but am still not ready to try (I'm actually thinking tomorrow my picture site SHOULD work).
Anyway about 11:15ish I got in my suit to go to Traditions (needed formal wear). Thankfully it didn't seem that hot out when I went off to the bus. All of us new people had a special charter bus to the Disney University for this class and it was interesting to see the what some people considered professional attire, yet none were turned away (as you would be if you aren't dressed appropriate), at least none that I saw...
Anyway our traditions was a 4 hour course, and apparently it's usually an 8 hour course so I feel privlidaged (I'm sure that's spelt wrong...)! Traditions was basically our first work day, meaning I am going to get paid for it! In a nut shell traditions is a course that EVERY employee at Disney has to take before starting work. It's a basic training course (Safety, policies, etc.) combined with a history of the company. It started off interesting but got a little dry when we entered the topic of the policies. One cool thing is that some people got little figurienes when the answered a question correctly. My whole table got one each, and not to toot my own horn it was mostly because of me.
What we had to do was we had 90 seconds to list as many animated Disney characters as possilbe, and my group actually won by 3 with 38 different characters. My group elected me to be "captain" so I got to write down the names... good choice because I just flew without a lot of input for the team (but not to take all their credit they did each help out while I was going). It wasn't the neatest writing but spelling didn't count. The list we came up with was Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald, Chip (chipmunk), Dale, Belle, Beast, Chip (cup from Beauty and the Beast), Mrs. potts, Auroa, Snow White, Sleepy, Grumpy, Dopy, Doc, Sneezy (yes only 5/7), Peter Pan, Captain Hook, Tinkerbell, Timon, Pumba, Jafar, Aladdin, Jafar (yes I listed him twice but he only counted once), Iago, Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Duey, Louie, Alice, White Rabbit, Mad Hatter, Queen of Hearts, Mike (Monsters Inc), Sulley, Boo, Nemo, Lightning McQueen.
My strategy involved picking one movie and writing every character I could think of as fast as I could and the second I got stuck I'd pick a new movie. My teamates helped by calling naming characters that I didn't have and that helped me pick a new movie. So we got our little figurines and I dunno what I was looking at when they arrived but when I looked down two people had grabbed the Goofy's, and one had grabbed Simba leaving me with Minnie Mouse. Now this isn't bad at all but out of the 3 types to choose from she is my least favorite. Oh well I got something out if it and it still is cool in that sense.
Also while at traditions in one of the two breaks they gave us I went to Company D (a Disney Castmember only store) to buy a lanyard for both my Chatham ID and my Disney ID. Along with getting our Disney ID at Traditions we also got our name tags, which a picutre of will appear in my pictues when I get the time to figure out whats going on with them).
Once traditions was over I was in a big hurry to get back to Chatham because a large group of us was going to the Magic Kingdom. It turned out that we were going to have about 45 minutes at chatham before we left so I called Jei (who got a Florida cell today) and both her and her roomate Amanda came over to join us since the bus to Magic Kingdom dosn;t leave from their housing complex. Seven of us made the trip, Me, Jei, Amanda, Jared, Matt, Wilkins and Christine. When we arrived we met up with John and began heading over to The Jungle Cruise to see if Louisa was working (someone that they know better than me who's on a program.)
Whe we arrived it turned out she was working and running a boat today which would have been cool but we decided to pass on waiting in line, with the potential to wait another 10-15 minutes for her boat... Maybe next time. We then moved on to Splash Mountain where we decided to get Fast Passes and end our night with, and went to Big Thunder Mountain.
Now this was Amanda's first time at any Disney park so I think this was a good ride for her to experience as a first ride. It wasn't a very long wait and is longer than the one in Anaheim for sure. When it was finished we met Matt Chan and his roomate Matt (yes that makes 3 matts in the group.......) and headed off to The Haunted Mansion to see Shanan and ride the ride. She was working up front in a position I believe is called greeter (too bad I wanted to ride in her stretching room ah well). After a quick chat we headed into the ride which is slightly different (I think maybe a bit longer) than the one in Anaheim... the outside of the building is definatly different!
Anyway after this we figured Space Mountain would be a good bet, since there was a parade starting so we headed off across the park to experience it. We got seperated and Me, Amanda, Matheiu, and Willkins were on our own. In my rocket Jei was in front, with me in the middle and Wilkins in the back... Jei was almost more entertaining than the ride itself! We were then offered (by matts roomate who was unloading) another ride so back we went and were on before we knew it. This time I got the front of my rocked and I rather enjoyed that seat.
After our two space mountain times we decided to head to Splash Mountain to use our fastpasses, and this is where Matt Chan and his roomate bid us goodbye. It was about this time our fast passes became active however the parade was just ending by splash mountain thus there was still a mad mob... we got in pretty quickly though, and luckily there was 8 of us, perfect for the 8 person log.
THe Wishes fireworks started while we were on the ride so that was quite cool to see, well from what little we could see of it, but I'm sure you can all guess what that ment for our park exit plans..... Anyway John and me were thinking about buying the picture and it was cool looking so we did. We got two prints for about 8 bucks each which was a pretty good deal (smaller than normal but a normal sice one is currently 17 bucksish!), and everyone started their treck to the exit of the park.
Of course it was about this time the fireworks ended and when we reached mainstreet we hit a major traffic jam. John was going to stay with Christine and Jared, so the rest of us headed off to move slowly through the crowd. When we reached the main enterance somehow we noticed Christine and Jared ahead of us so we met up with them again, apparently John lost his cellphone today somewhere in the MK (although it would have had to have been, Space Mountain, Splash Mountain or while walking).
Once outside we had to wait a bit for a monorail (due to the crowds) and when we arrived where we needed to go no one knew where to go for our bus, it pulled up as we were arriving to the correct spot so we all headed back to Chatham where Amanda and Jei headed back off to the commons.
Tomorrow morning I have basic Food and Beverage training at 7, but I need to catch a bus at 6 which means aprox a 5 am wake up time (4 hours away) so I should be off. After work I plan on going and setting up my bank accout and getting work shoes. Jei wants to go to Animal Kingdom just to ride everest but I don't think we're going to have time when her Traditions is over. If not I plan on relaxing around chatham, I need a bit of a break!
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