Training - 14th and 15th June

After the high of being in Magic Kingdom for the first time that summer, it was back to reality when I had to get up at 6am the next morning to get ready for my first day at training!!

14th June - I was heading to Disney University again in my formal attire for the Food and Beverage core class. This class had people from quick service, full service and catering in it and there were a whole range of people there from ICP's and CP's to Full time Cast Members. We learnt all about the different areas of food that there are in Walt Disney World and about health and safety concerning food. It was quite boring but they tried to make it interesting and it was nice to talk to other people who were doing the same role as me. We then headed into a computer room where we had registered for the HUB and did some e-learning. After we finished this, we were told to head over to Costuming which is across the road from Disney University to get our work shoes. This is one benefit of QSFB, they provide you with non-slip shoes which saves you money in the first week. My shoes were like white trainers which turned out to be super comfy!
The rest of the day was spent going to Walmart for more shopping and doing some laundry, exciting times!! As much as it would have been nice to head to the parks again, I was absolutely exhausted and I needed just to do some essentials and catch up on sleep because I had a third early start the next morning!!

15th June - Forecast Blizzard
Today was yet another early start since I had to be at Blizzard Beach for 8am! I got on the K bus and it was clear who was going to the orientation of Blizzard since we were all in formal attire!! I started talking to some girls on the bus and they turned out to be a couple of the friends I would be hanging out with all summer :)
The orientation consisted of a walking tour and learning all about the park including using the Four Keys!
We had lunch before heading back to finish up our orientation by getting our training schedules. My training started the next day! So a group of us headed back to Vista and got the G bus to Caribbean Beach Hotel since that was were our costuming was located. This ended up being a pain since the G bus only ran every half hour which meant for a long return journey. We got our costumes and waited for the next bus, we it did turn up it was full so we all had to stand holding 5 sets of costumes!! Thankfully  most people got off at Pop Century or Art of Animation which meant we could sit down!! But we hit rush hour traffic and it was a very slow journey back to Vista. It was this journey that made up my mind about washing my own costumes!! It was easier just to wash my own costumes than having to do a 2 hour trip just to change costumes.

I'll talk more about my On the Job Training in the next post!!

Have a Magical Day!!!