Thursday, 21 November 2013

The First Few Days

In my opinion I think the first few days before Traditions is some of the toughest but enjoyable times :) You're dealing with jet lag, home sickness, living with new people, filling in forms, attending meetings and getting some of your first glimpses of WDW!

On the 11th we only had a housing meeting at 12pm. I had intended to sleep in a bit but jet lag woke me bright and early at 6am!! So both me and my roommate ended up unpacking before heading over to Walgreens across the road from Vista for more shopping. 
We met at Vista at 12 to get the bus over to the Commons where the housing meeting was taking place. I'm pretty sure this was the day where we had to do some immigration stuff before the meeting. Then some of us went to the outlet malls across from the commons for a nosey round the Disney store and a Starbucks. It was on the way back that someone said about the wind getting stronger and how that was the signal for heavy rain coming, 10 minutes later when we were thankfully under shelter we had our first Florida thunderstorm! 
The housing meeting was fine, they tried to make it exciting by playing Disney music and having a party atmosphere at the start but after that they went through all the rules of Disney housing including how we weren't allowed lightsabers as they can be classed as weapons!
Later that night a big group of UK ones went to Downtown Disney, it was so exciting to finally pass under the purple gates of WDW for the first time! We spent  most of the time walking around DTD trying to decide on somewhere to eat before eventually going to Earl of Sandwich. We spent the rest of our time looking around the different shops and we even got speaking to one of the Cast Members who was really nice and was so excited for us to start our program!

Wednesday the 12th June we had another meeting over in the Commons but this time it was to do with immigration and other serious stuff. We were in a room of 200 and they had to guide us through filling a form to apply for our social security number! And they had an officer from the department of homeland telling us what not to do or else we would be deported!!
We went back to Vista and each of us had an appointment in the welcome centre there to fill in even more paperwork and to find out where we were working!!! I found out I would be working at Blizzard Beach in Lottawatta Lodge (say it slowly you'll get it!!). To be totally honest I was a bit disappointed when I got a water park but it turned out to be the best place ever and I wouldn't change my location for the world. 
After that I went back to the apartment and probably Skyped home, it was after that the homesickness really hit me but my roommate was great, gave me a hug and we went out to Downtown Disney.
We ended bumping into a group of UK girls heading there as well and we all went to dinner at Paridiso 37. We had a lovely meal and I really enjoyed the night :) After the meal we all headed back to our apartments since a lot of us had an early morning for Traditions tomorrow!!!

Have a Magical Day!!

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