One down side to Traditions is the early morning!! I was in the morning class which meant meeting at Vista at 6am!! We all got on the bus and this was the morning that I had my first glimpse of the beautiful Cinderella Castle, it looked even more amazing in the morning dawn :) We proceeded to go behind Magic Kingdom where we past many buildings including where the monorails live and where the Christmas decorations are kept!
We then arrived at Disney University!!! Honestly if I could go here to study physics, I would be there! Haha The building is full of pictures from different Disney movies, quotes from Walt Disney and more!
We were then sorted into our different Traditions classes by the colour of paper we had and before we even got into the room we were all given our Disney ID's i.e. our access to the parks! and the spelling of our names and hometowns were doubled checked.
The class started off with a presentation about working with integrity then our two class instructors introduced themselves, a man and a woman. I wish I could remember the mans name because he was brilliant! The woman's name was Cookie (yes I know!) and she was very good as well.
We learnt about the history of the company and about the four Keys: Safety, Courtesy, Show and Efficiency. And we learnt that famous saying: SafeD begins with me :) Just as we were learning about the four keys, we were told that we were going to go on a field trip to see the four Keys in action....we were going to the Magic Kingdom!!!!!! Before we did that though each table had to elect a group leader and since I happened to be sitting at a table with 5 other French girls they elected me to be it! Thankfully I got a little Pluto figure to keep :)
So we headed out to Magic Kingdom in our business attire and earpieces lol and got to see the utilidors! It was so surreal knowing you were a part of this amazing destination. We then headed out to Main Street and our instructor seen a couple who had bride and grim ears on so he told us that when we surrounded them that we would all say "Happy Wedding" or something along them lines and they did not expect it at all!! It was amazing the feeling I had of making that memory for them :) We even wished people a Happy Birthday going passed them.
After we passed the wedding couple we turned out onto the central bit of Main Street and seen the Castle for the first time!! If that wasn't enough, Dream Along with Mickey was going on as we walked right down the middle of Main Street USA !! I had the biggest smile on my face, I couldn't believe it I was in the most magical place on earth and I was going to be living, working and playing in this place for the rest of the summer!!
We unfortunately had to back to the classroom and we discussed the four Keys further before we had a very special visitor......the main man himself.......Mickey Mouse!! He was here to tell us that our name tags would be ready soon!! At the end of the class we got to go up and get our name tags out of a lovely wooden box like the one below.
After that we got to proudly wear out name tags back to Vista on the bus :)
I really enjoyed Traditions and after feeling homesick the previous day, it reminded me that I am part of the most amazing company and I have the Best. Job. Ever!!!
I'll talk about the first night in Magic Kingdom in the next post!!
Have a Magical Day!!!
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