Exploring Orlando
First of all, I would like to start this blog by just saying that I have an awesome roommate, Yago. I like all of my roommates, but Yago is really cool. I've been hanging out and running around with him and his friends recently here in Orlando, and they're all very nice and extremely friendly in welcoming me into the Walt Disney College Program. So I thank them for that and I am glad to have friends like this here in Orlando. We're all in the same boat here, so everyone is friendly and easy to get along with. A true and good community has been formed here. We all work, live and play at Disney. We're all connected as Disney cast members. Interesting how such a simple job can connect people on such a level. At ETSU people weren't connected like this, but were more woven into the school then we are into the work here. Maybe ETSU was just an awful and depressing place? I would think so. I thought so then and my time here is only serving to confirm this. Great things do lie ahead and life gets better, always! As unhappy as I was being at ETSU, I am very happy to be here. This is a good place for me, as good place for anyone at that! I would reccomend the Walt Disney World College Program to anyone in college! Check out their website and attend a meeting if they come to your school and do this! It's completely worth it.
I am an official park greeter now, able to remove my "Earining My Ears" banner and work as a normal cast member. So that's just what I did on Monday: work. My first full day without all of the training stuff stuck in between. The first day I haven't had to sign a million different forms and papers as well. It went by relatively quickly, but the smell of food in the park always makes me hungry. I think it's the mammoth turkey legs they sell...
Anyway, Monday night after work, I was invited by Yago to go to a birthday party of one of his friends (who I had sort of met the night before). Having nothing else to do, and knowing that I had Tuesday and Wednesday off, I went along. After cake and conversation we left to go to Club Paris, a club in downtown Orlando owned or sponsored by Paris Hilton. It was closed on Mondays though, so we went to another club there called BB. We didn't like it much. It was like European MTV, and that stuff is insane. Fun to watch, but not because you like it, but rather like one must watch a burning building. You just stare. So once we realized that we didn't care for the joint, we left en route for Pleasure Island at Disney. Pleasure Island is a part of Downtown Disney that has like four or five different night clubs and is meant for nightlife. So we went there (because, as cast members, we get in free) and had fun until around 2 a.m. Fun times. At two, when the clubs close, the security people come out with whistle and yell to chase all the drunk people away who have now taken the party out into the street. Fun to watch if nothing else! So this was my Monday night. Lot's of fun, lot's of wildness. And hopefully to be repeated soon...
Today I went to Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure with Yago and Theresa, both from Brazil. It was a lot of fun, Universal Studios always is. We started the day in Islands of Adventure and worked our way over to the Studios. They have a new ride in the Studios: The Curse of the Mummy. It was very awesome. But they replaced King Kong with it! Who does that!? King Kong was a Universal Studios classic, you can't get rid of classics! But they did, and as much as the new ride rocks, I miss the old King Kong ride. I think it was called Konfrontation. Otehr changes included a Shred 4-D ride and a new Nicktoon ride where the Hannah-Barbara ride used to be. OH! And the Jaws ride was closed to! UGH! Ah well, at least we didn't have to wait in the lines very long. That was nice. So after a long day of having fun I've come back to my humble apartment to spend a lazy evening before going into work tomorrow. I have to be there at noon everyday this week, so that's nice. I like working evenings I think. It gives me time to go out at night and sleep in in the mornings. Maybe I'll go to Pleasure Island tomorrow night....who knows? I never know from day to day what I'll be doing, but I like it that way and it's a good place for me right now.
I am an official park greeter now, able to remove my "Earining My Ears" banner and work as a normal cast member. So that's just what I did on Monday: work. My first full day without all of the training stuff stuck in between. The first day I haven't had to sign a million different forms and papers as well. It went by relatively quickly, but the smell of food in the park always makes me hungry. I think it's the mammoth turkey legs they sell...
Anyway, Monday night after work, I was invited by Yago to go to a birthday party of one of his friends (who I had sort of met the night before). Having nothing else to do, and knowing that I had Tuesday and Wednesday off, I went along. After cake and conversation we left to go to Club Paris, a club in downtown Orlando owned or sponsored by Paris Hilton. It was closed on Mondays though, so we went to another club there called BB. We didn't like it much. It was like European MTV, and that stuff is insane. Fun to watch, but not because you like it, but rather like one must watch a burning building. You just stare. So once we realized that we didn't care for the joint, we left en route for Pleasure Island at Disney. Pleasure Island is a part of Downtown Disney that has like four or five different night clubs and is meant for nightlife. So we went there (because, as cast members, we get in free) and had fun until around 2 a.m. Fun times. At two, when the clubs close, the security people come out with whistle and yell to chase all the drunk people away who have now taken the party out into the street. Fun to watch if nothing else! So this was my Monday night. Lot's of fun, lot's of wildness. And hopefully to be repeated soon...
Today I went to Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure with Yago and Theresa, both from Brazil. It was a lot of fun, Universal Studios always is. We started the day in Islands of Adventure and worked our way over to the Studios. They have a new ride in the Studios: The Curse of the Mummy. It was very awesome. But they replaced King Kong with it! Who does that!? King Kong was a Universal Studios classic, you can't get rid of classics! But they did, and as much as the new ride rocks, I miss the old King Kong ride. I think it was called Konfrontation. Otehr changes included a Shred 4-D ride and a new Nicktoon ride where the Hannah-Barbara ride used to be. OH! And the Jaws ride was closed to! UGH! Ah well, at least we didn't have to wait in the lines very long. That was nice. So after a long day of having fun I've come back to my humble apartment to spend a lazy evening before going into work tomorrow. I have to be there at noon everyday this week, so that's nice. I like working evenings I think. It gives me time to go out at night and sleep in in the mornings. Maybe I'll go to Pleasure Island tomorrow night....who knows? I never know from day to day what I'll be doing, but I like it that way and it's a good place for me right now.
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