Beginning from where I left off; after my lovely early wake ups we made our way to the airpot and met up with failiar faces from the facebook group, checked in and headed through security. Panic hit me as the queue was so so long as one of the restaurants had set off the fire alarm so the Airport had to be evacuated which also delayed our fliht by 40 minutes. The flight was fine, I watched TheVow and Footloose and sitting with all the other 'Cast members' definitely helped to pass the time. Obviously the long awaited cocktail was yummy!! It was then time for the dreaded immigration, luckily this went very smoothly and actualy quite quickly so we were all able to make our way to Vista Way. We checked in and found out where we would be living, I'm at Vista Way. Luckily my housemate is one of the girls from my flight and one I have spoken to quite a bit. We are living with 3 Americans and a Spanish girl. Our first bit of drama couldn't wait too long afer we arrived though, Bec realised that she had the wrong suitcase so after spending an hour on the phone with no help we trapesed back to the Airport to absolutely sprint around to find her suitcase, locked away in a room where we could see it. There was no one around so we went back the next day and were eventually able to collect it!! The Walmart shop after this fiasco was no fun, which then led to me having no food except for Poptarts for the first 4 days, woops.
Orientation days started which consisted of 2 days of filling out a lot of paperwork and watching videos, mainly about how you can be terminated.
I had my first trip to Dunkin' Doughnuts and it did not dissapoint!! I went with Bec and agreeed that she would be my honary sister as she had borrowed my top as she had no luggage and as I've only been with my family, so it was cute!
Tuesday was a silly day for me! A few of us had a lovely afternoon by the pool, but I forgot to put suncream on my legs which has resulted in them still being burnt and heat coming from them 3 days later, lesson learnt!! For dinner we took a trip to CiCis, I've really lost my appetite since being in the heat!
Traditions class was on Wednesday, we found out about the history of Disney, had a backstage and onstage walk through the Magic Kingdom and the chance to win some character criters, I won two, for sharing my Disney memory, being team leader and answering a question where Mickey honoured me with the treat. I obviously got all teary watching all the videos and sat through it thinking is this actually real?! Traditions also meant that we were given our I.D cards which means we have free entrance into the 4 parks for three months, yes FREEE!!!!!
A group of us decided to take full advantage of our ID cards and headed straight off to the Magic Kingdom. Unfortunately the afternoon was short lived for me as I think I had a bit of sunstroke and that mixed with the heat didn't work for me, so I had to leave the queue for Thunder Mountain and my Splash Mountain Fastpass behind and head home. The girls didn't really want to stay any longer either, so we all headed back and me and Becca went to Applebees for a relaxed dinner.
Thursday was a fun day! We had 'Discovery Day' at Epcot, (Experimental prototype community of tomorrow - need to learn this in case I am asked!) we found out about the history of Epcot and had a tour around the park. I also rode my first ride in Disney, Spaceship Earth, woo! I also found out that I will be working in The Land. When I found out I was working in Epcot I was gutted, it is my least faviourite park and there isn't any big rides there and also I wouldn't get to see much of the little Princesses, but I came round to it and was settling with the idea. Then I found out I was working in the Land, which includes Living with the Land and The Circe of Life, probably the most rubbish and least visted attractions out of the four parks. This took gutted to another exteme, I have paid around £1000 to be here and I'm working there, really not happy!!! But as everyone is saying - it's what you make of it. To cheer me up we headed over to Animal Kingdom, spent a lovely afternoon riding a few attractions and getting caught in a thunderstorm, which drenched us. Didn't help that I was wearing my white linens to cover up my sunburn, thesewere now seethrough! We ate in the Rainforest Cafe, it was nice, but I think after I've experienced it once I won't be rushing back again.
So in general, I am loving life in Florida so far and have made some lovely friends already and cannot wait for the memories to continue!!!
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