Milk and Frogs

Of course I am not talking about consuming these things together! Gross! They just happened to be on my mind today!

So today was my first day off in 8 days and it felt really good to be lazy! However I was a kind of productive lazy! I did all my laundry! (2 whole loads, whew!) and I got food that is actually edible. (my milk soured like 4 days before I thought it would! tres gross!) I semi-vacuumed, because my vac doesn't really like carpet. I cleaned the mold out of the toilet and put bleach in it in hopes that the florida humidity mold would not come back! and I located a Barnes & Noble! Oh and I caught (well my roommate Lauren caught, I spotted) a frog in my bedroom! go florida!

These past few days have been really busy and fun! I loved hanging out with Rachel and Kristy while they were here! It was a lot of fun meeting up at the different parks and doing whatever we want! I only wish that we could have gone to the Prime Time Cafe but it was completely booked the couple times we tried for it! I'm sure they would have loved it!

Working at the World Traveler is still good. It's funny how many people come down to where it is and ask how to get to France or what country they are in or what does the big exit sign mean...is it really another exit/entrance to Epcot? I can't count how many times people ask me where the closest bathroom is...at least the trainers prepared me well for those questions. Other questions people ask I've had to be a little creative for like when they ask where they should go first, or if I have any tips for them in the park. All my experience as a guest at Disney has come in handy for these questions! Thanks Mom and Dad!

So mayhap you will notice a list of books to the side --------------->
I was bored today and so I decided to make a list of books that I like at the moment...you guys know me and my books! I miss working in Barnes & Noble because I could stay on top of the books that were coming out and real popular even if I didn't read them myself. I also liked the challenge of working at Barnes & Noble because there were so many things that had to be done everyday and here sometimes I feel like I'm getting paid to stand around. I did have to run wheelchairs to people the other night. One to a girl who had a giant blister on her foot that popped while she was walking so she slipped and like twisted her ankle or something (weird and gross). The other wheelchair was for a girl who had had a seizure and didn't feel like walking all the way to the front of the park. I also miss having good friends that to work with...everyone in my small store is way older than me...well except for this one girl who is pretty nice and a couple years younger than me but I'm not sure if we'll get to be great friends, but who knows.

Well I think that I am caught up to what I am doing at the moment and am now just rambling! Plus I better go to bed so that I can be well rested for work in the morning! I love and miss you all! Ciao!

World Traveling!

So I have to be to work in, like, 2 hours so I decided to blog again. Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to it! Things get crazy busy here and when I'm not working, then I'm usually sleeping :) Except the past couple of days because Rachel and Kristy are here and it has been so fun hanging out with them a couple of times! Last night after I got off work we went to Downtown Disney and ate at the T-Rex restaurant. The food was quite delicious. I got this yummy Guac-asaurus Burger and it was pretty big. And Rachel got some Mushroom Ravioli thing that I think she liked. And Kristy got the Cretaceous Chicken Fried Steak. The steak took up her entire plate except for a tiny sliver at the top for the potatoes. It was seriously like a foot long! We all had a good laugh when it came out! I think the waiter thought we were crazy people! Unfortunately Kristy did not like the giant steak that much. But we all loved the Ghiradelli chocolate shakes/ice cream that we got after! I am super glad that Rach and Kristy are here! I love having friends around.
Yesterday was my last day of training! Yay! I didn't like having to train for so long! So now I am an official Cast Memeber. I'm sure I'll still make some mistakes but I'm glad to not have a trainer hovering around me anymore even though my trainers were pretty nice! I like the store that I work in, but sometimes it is really slow and that makes the day go by really slow! Yesterday after my trainer left there was this creep lady who came in trying to get some free sunglasses out of us. She claimed that she had bought them earlier in the day and that we forgot to bag them for her. I asked my manager what to do and she said that if the lady had here receipt then to just give her the glasses because they aren't that expensive. I asked her if she had her receipt, she said no. Did she know what she paid with, no. Did she know around what time she bought it, no. I was running back and forth between this lady and my manager for all these questions and my manager Nicole kept saying how suspicious it sounded. Finally I was asking this lady some more questions and she was like "Well I have to go." and she wasn't even that angry so Nicole thought she was lying about the sunglasses. That part of the day went by really fast! I guess I like the challenge of difficult guests.
Well I have to go finish getting ready for work! I think I might be getting a little homesick because I miss everyone all the time! But I know the cure...everyone that I know and love in Utah should just come down here while I am here! Because I don't think I'm really homesick for Utah, just the people who are there! So anyways, you think about it, ok? I love you! See ya!

A Day in the Life of a WDWCP

Most days you will be extremely tired. Maybe even a little sore, but mostly just tired. Let me tell you why WDW makes you tired. First you are getting up for work at the crack of dawn so you can make your bus on time to get you to work early enough to change, get to your location and clock in, and if you are even 1 minute late you get a point on your record (point=not good.) For example today I woke up at 5:15 so I could be to Disney U at 8. Then immediately following work you might go home and change. Like today I did. Then you'll probably go to one of the various parks here because, hey you get in for free. (its kinda like hanging out at the mall at home only instead of saying "Hey (insert your name here), lets go to the mall!" you say "Hey, lets hang out at MK!" and if you don't eat at the parks then its really cheap!) I did this as well today, only me and Jessica (Hi Jess! Right now you're asleep but hi anyways! wow that sounds kinda creepy and stalker-ish) went to two parks plus walked all over a rather large hotel to find my car. Also you might hang out with your roommate's friend and his roommates and have to try to think of witty comments or fun questions so they don't think you're antisocial or something. I also did this today. The last thing you might have to deal with is the emotional roller-coaster of your family flying back home and missing them terribly. All of these things I did today and now here I am at quarter to 1 in the morning still awake.
I hope that doesn't make it sound like I don't like it here, because I love it! It is super fun! I really enjoy meeting new people and maybe making a few friends. Today I also got invited to go to Epcot with a couple girls from my training class and I wanted to meet up with them but I had other plans already and I feel kinda bad because we said that we should exchange phone numbers but I ended up finishing before them and left before that could happen. I hope they don't think I just ditched out on them because I didn't mean to! I also got invited to go drinking with a couple guys on the bus ride back from training because they were bitter about the role that they had been given. Me and Jessica declined because, well, we don't drink. We tried to help them find a positive spin to their role, but they were just obstinate. They might quit which would be sad for them.
I guess I'll end this rambling post by saying I love and miss you all, unless of course you are here in Florida with me in which case I would just say love ya! :)

Intro to the CP!

Hey everyone who is reading my pithy little blog. I thought that I would start out with an introduction of sorts. I actually started this blog almost a year ago but i decided to edit it into a CP blog, so if it says that this was published in September of last year, well now you know why :) So to start off with I'm Brittney, I am currently 21, and I'm from Utah but I am living in Florida to do the WDWCP. Just in case you don't what that stands for it means "Walt Disney World College Program." Usually people just refer to it by College Program or CP. Anyways I am now all moved into my apartment and i have met all of my roommates. The girl that i share a bedroom with is Jessica from Utah and I got to know her before we came down which was fun! The other 2 girls who live in our apartment are Amanda and Lauren. They seem pretty nice so I think we will have a great time together.
Yesterday I found out what I will be doing while I am here. I will work in Epcot at a store called the World Traveller in the World Showcase. (Just to let you know I LOVE the World Showcase so I believe that this will be an awesome job for me!) Also yesterday I (and everyone just starting their CP) had to do about a ton of paperwork! And I got fingerprinted which was a first for me. Then we had a super long housing meeting that just explained all the rules and codes of the housing what what to do to make sure you don't get kicked out.
Today is a free day for me because I don't actually start working with Disney until tomorrow when I have to take the Traditions class. Traditions is basically just learning about the history of Disney and then how you will be expected to act and behave to carry on Walt Disney's traditions. I've heard that it is long and boring, but I don't really know. Oh and just to let all you people in Utah know I will have to catch a bus for this class at 6:45 am, which is 4:45 in Utah time!
Well I hope that I can learn some interesting things to share with all y'all while I am down here! Talk to you later!