It has been a crazy few days!!
Brian and I left Bob's at 7am yesterday (oh my gosh that was only yesterday) and got to Vista Way around 7:45 after paying another billion in tolls and dealing with traffic. They wouldn't let anyone into the complex until 8 so we chilled in the parking lot across the street. While I was standing next to Brian's car, another girl came up and said "you look normal. let's be roommates." So that girl was Kristy, the first of my 5 roommates. She is from Madison, Tennessee and played softball at Goodpasture. Go Figure. She saw that I was from Nashville because I was wearing a Preds hoodie. So once we were able to get into the complex all three of us kept together. Kristy had meet another girl named Lindsay and her brother Matt, who are from central Louisiana. It worked out that all three of us girls were able to room together. We got our room in Patterson Court, which is the newest and nicest and strangely the cheapest of all the complexes. The last step of the check in process was getting out parking decals. But Disney has this stupid rule where YOUR name has to be on the insurance card - not your parents. So I had to call dad and have him call the insurance company so they could fax proof that I am an insured driver. In other words, it was stupid.
Kristy, her parents and I then made our way our apartment and made first claims on the beds. Then we realized that we had totally skipped a step and had to go back and have our background checks and be fingerprinted. So we left her parents to unpack her room and tried to find this place and ended going to the wrong area, but it was an adventure and we finally made it. Mom was a little nervous about my background check haha. But don't worry we both cleared. Brian was behind us in line and we chatted for a bit before heading back to our apartment. Oh, Brian is in the same building as us (building 10 at Patterson). I have yet to decide if that is going to be a good thing or a bad thing.
When we were back at the apartment, they helped me unload my car and the somewhat get things situated. We were mainly waiting for our 3 other roommates to show up. Then I got a call from Brian saying that he met one of our roommates in line named Jess! She is from Woodstock, Georgia and is fabulous. Really the day was filled with waiting and unpacking.
A few hours later, our fourth roommate showed up and her name is Angelica (yes, like from Rugrats) and is from Puerto Rico. All I could think about was Ramos. Her english is not as nearly as good as his, but she is so cute and trying to learn. It turns out she is 28 and is married and has 2 children and is here to help her family. She came here knowing hardly any english and just after a day I can already see a difference. She is just precious. She is also trying to teach us spanish, but that is not going so well. Especially with all of our southern accents.
By this point we are STARVING! We went to Subway and met some other CP kids that were character performers and lived in our building. They were pretty cool, but we eventually had to get on our way. We finally made our way to the dreaded Wal-Mart. It was a madhouse. Imagine the Wal-Mart in BG on Christmas Eve and multiply that by 3 and that equals the hell we were in. We had about 4 carts worth of stuff. Lindsay, Matt and I cheated and checked out through the Garden Center so it did not take us too long. But poor Kristy and Brian had to wait 45 minutes to check out!! Absolutely ridiculous. But we made it back and continued to unpack.
Brandon came over later and we went to the Ale House to meet some of his friends and watch the St. Louis/Detroit game. We came back and just hung out the rest of the night.
This morning we had to be at Vista at 8:30 to fill out our I-9 forms and get our roles. I was put into a separate line and then asked if I did hair and make-up. The question caught me really off guard, but I just said that I had in the past. Then this woman asked me to follow her and she took me to talk to this other guy. It was really nerve wracking because I was escorted to the front of the line and I kept getting menacing looks from all the people in line. That is when this guy told me that I was going to be a Fairy Godmother at the Bibbi Bobbidi Boutique! My role is to turn little girls into freaking PRINCESSES!! How freaking cool is that? The rest of the time spent there was waiting in line and trying to figure what was going on. Since me and another girl, named Sam, got moved we had to wait in another line to get our training moved around. But, then paperwork got mixed up and we were sent on a wild goose chase for a non-existent piece of paper. But anywho here are how the jobs go for the rest of the apartment
and friends
Kristy - Magic Kingdom in Mickey's Toon Town
Lindsay - Magic Kingdom in Fantasy Land at food stand thing (the only place in the park that serves pizza)
Jess - A "Friend" of Mickey and Minnie Mouse
Angelica - Key West Resort Housekeeping
Refilwe "Fifi" Maimare - Animal Kingdom Lodge**
Matt - A "Friend" of Peter Pan
Brian - Hollywood Studios Merchandising
** I forgot that Fifi came in late late last night. She is from South Africa and has the coolest accent ever. She has been living in Ohio as an au pair for a family.
So it is pretty exciting that we all know what we are doing now. We all have Traditions tomorrow, which is like the orientation class and when we officially become Cast Members and we finally get our free entrance to the parks. Kristy, Lindsay, and I all have the early class (We have to be at the bus stop at 6:55am in business attire....blah) but on the plus side we get to play in the parks for the rest of the day. I am so excited that I finally get to see Wishes! (the fireworks at Cinderella's Castle and Tinkerbell flies over the castle!!)
Everything is going great so far! I could not have gotten a better group of people in the apartment! They are just fantastic and so much fun. This whole program seems like it is going to be great. Let's hope I still say that when I am dealing with bitching parents at the Boutique. But I am sure for every one bad experience I am sure that there will be 5 good ones to make up for it.
0 comments:
Post a Comment