Some photos to catch everyone up of whats going on.

 

beautiful night shot of Voyage of the little mermaid in new fantasyland. this is located right next to the shop that I work in new fantasyland called bonjour. I get to see this view quite often. 

 Went to house of blues with julie burd and family (pictured below) and got the best and biggest plate of chicken. so so so so so so good.

 us at house of blues.

then we get to food and wine!

 different stations and their offerings,

 and I found wine that I actually like...

and here is a crazy large moth that was next to my front door. creepy!

Sorry for not posting for so long. My computer is having issues uploading pictures so I have to resort to my phone. I have been working like crazy and all my free time is spent with friends. I also found out that my application to stay with disney for the rest of the school year was accepted, so I will be staying through May now. :) 

Me at food and wine festival. Found wine that i cruelly like! Cheers everyone! 

a week in the life of a cp

 to start with we got out and get food often. This time I went to Cici's pizza with Lillie, I love the garlic bread located on the left, and also ate 8 cinannmon roles.

 and my hair is getting much longer now.

 awesome shot of the moon over voyage of the little mermaid in magic kingdom

 we finally did the pose right! YAY! with monique

 on buzz lightyear! I got the highest score possible!

 me with my score!

 my button for getting the highest score possible!

 monique and I as we left during the electrical parade

 the new momento mori shop for the haunted mansion. Wouldn't you just love a plush of the bride with the ax?

and the haunted mansion head wear. I loved it but it made it difficult to see.

some more photos of my everyday life

So I made many magical moments, this one was caught on film and went into the monthly news letter of me playing tea with a little girl. So sweet. This is in Bonjour, a shop in New Fantasyland that sells Beauty and the Beast breakables (i know they put the klutz in a shop filled with dishes, the good news is I have only broken one snow globe so far!) I have also been asked several times if i am the belle from hollywood studios performance of beauty and the beast.

 And in my free time I wander. Here is me at the Florida Mall :)

 I found a pretty dress, but sadly have no place to wear it too.

 what did I actually end up buying you may ask? Well Disney Plush! I might sell this stuff but I love it just the same!

 So Monique and I decided to go to Magic Kingdom early one day..... We were super tired but that made space mountain even more fun :)

 and the carousal was amazing too :p

because of many different family medical factors I have been a bit stressed so I decided to distract myself by crocheting. scarf #1 done. Just in time too, people seem to think that the end of the world is near because the temp is getting to 60 degrees at night. ok they dont actually think that but they do run for every jacket known to man kind. They would never make it in oregon......

 

I got to see the very last night of the Frozen Fun celebrations. Here is a photo of the last set of fireworks.  Applications to extend our programs  come out tomorrow, and I will see in about a month if I get to stay as a CP or if I will transfer into the company instead or move back home.

Pin trading has become my new hobby. You buy cheaper pins an try trading them for ones you like. I have 25 traders that I have started trading for nicer ones. I will post photos in my next photo drop. I am having fun going out at nights and going on dates and working during the day. Work has also become a work out for me . I had to climb over 300 flights of stairs in one day when I was running packages for the resort delivery system ( a very nifty system that allows hotel patrons to ship their purchases to their hotel or the front of the park for no cost so they don't have to carry them around). I am loving magic kingdom. The Halloween parties are a lot of fun and we get to interact and try and make everyone's day special. I really enjoy getting to sit on the floor and play with kids. And the nice part is that we are encouraged to do these types of interactions. The weather has been cray and we have been having monsoon rains every day. I am so glad that I have my rain jacket. Everyone uses ponchos or umbrellas here which I find strange, I miss back home. However I am liking it here more and more 

Lots of different things happening. Halloween parties have kept me very busy at work. I am getting a lot of hours which is nice. does make things like getting housework done and cooking food a bit of a challenge. I have started recording all the magical moments I make in a notebook for later use. One week and six pages are already filled. Shifts are never boring. I had a crazy day of package running and did nearly 300 flights of stairs in a day. I was sore the next day. Other wise my free time is spent hanging out with friends. some how I am getting less sleep now than i did in college. I will post more about my adventures soon. Like once my laundry gets out of the dryer and folded since I really needed clean soon :p

Photo dump :)

hey guess what space mountain again. My favorite ride of all time!

Amazing view of the castle and liberty square, photo taken from tom sawyer island. 

my drink, an orbiting oreo. super yummy! Oreo shake plus chocolate liqueur.

me and my drink at sci fi dine in theatre awesome place! 

my stock costume, its terrible. thankfully i don't stock too much. I have one more costume that I will post a pic of later. 

I never want to get out of bed after working till two am for parties at Magic Kingdom.

Mary-Ellen's 21st. in mexico at epcot.

and our lunch. yummy yummy sushi and tempura in japan

and my first light beer in germany. Not a fan of light beer I found out. 

weibo from flubber. <3

the super moon over the worlds largest Marriot hotel

and disney store had dresses that will fit me!!! 

more to come later! 

Hello Everyone! I am having a great week of work. Making crazy amount of magical moments, and helping save lives at the same time. Yes, you read that right. I became a primary responder for an emergency in the store I was working in and helped aid a women through a seizure and keeping her calm through her EMS examination. Where ever you are out there, I hope that you are doing better and are enjoying the rest of your time in Disney World before going home for your wedding reception! I was also able to change their reservation so that they could have their wedding dinner when she was feeling better. I love being able to make magic happen. Otherwise I have been selling stuff non stop. I got my stock training completed and am now trained to drive a pargo (like a golf cart) throughout the tunnels, which is extremely fun. I have my last training tomorrow which is sewing training so I can put names on mickey ear hats. I will do a huge photo dump in the next couple of days so everyone can see what has been going on. I am loving it here, and the weather is slowly starting to get cooler.

I make Magical Moments.

One of the things that I love about my new job is that I make what are called magical moments. These are experiences that the guests don't have to pay for and are random, but allow them to be more fully surrounded by the magic. I love making magical moments, and most of the time my magical moments are because of pixie dust which we are given each day to give out to the guests. I am still waiting for photos of my in action, but I have been recorded dozens of times for sprinkling pixie dust, and get action shots taken. I love seeing the wonder in their eyes when they see the pixie dust. I also get dozens of hugs each day for making their day special. I love my job :)

how to spend your 21st birthday in Disney World

Well I am now 21! And I had a great birthday! It was my assessment day for merchentainment, and I passed, so I have my first solo shift tonight! So to celebrate my birthday I started off with work, so I did my hair all pretty like, and went around being called a princess all day. Here is me in my costume with one of my princess hairstyles. 

Then after a 10 hour assessment shift I got off work and opened my gifts :) Thank you Zuzu and Mom and Dad :) Then I went to Epcot with a couple of my friends. I had met a boy on the bus a couple days before that worked the margarita stand in Mexico, and he said to come visit the stand for a birthday drink. Well here I am with my birthday mango and strawberry margarita. 

then we went and saw illuminations.

then we went to Magic Kingdom for dinner and Wishes 

 then we got pixie dusted and went on a few rides before going and getting my birthday bracelet.

fun birthday :)

I love my new job, today was day one of many of training and I spent my day learning about the stores I will be working and interacting with guests, including pixie dusting guests which is super fun :) Here is a photo of my in my costume. More will come later once I have completed more training.

Long time no post, I know. sorry :) The last week has been a very interesting week to say the least. To start of with, lifeguarding is hard. I knew it would be. I reached my breaking point of stress from guarding this week, and I ended up with a very very very very very bad panic attack that ended up sending me to health services. Because of the fact that I have had anxiety issues in the past, the choice was made that for my health I should no longer be guarding at Walt Disney World. Thankfully, that does not mean that I am done working here, it means that I have a new role that I will be starting next week. I will now be merchandise in Fantasyland in Magic Kingdom. I am looking forward to this new adventure, and hopefully I do not end up sick from the stress again :) Since I was having major panic issues which included me being sick, I have had the past week off to recover. The first two days I slept. The next three I read books, then I went to class and Magic kingdom with a friend the next day. We discovered our new favorite place to eat, Columbia Harbor house. This was the view out the window as we ate :)

super pretty, and the food was great! 

Then we met up with a friend of Monique's and went on the Buzz Lightyear ride. I got a really good score! 

and me and monique on the ride. I got Star Cadet!!!!

And we rode space Mountain twice! It is one of our favorite rides! Always worth the wait!

I will post more when I start working and training again. i am trying to relax for the rest of my time off to try and get back to my normal self again.

Yesterday was a very interesting day. It was the day that I made my first jump into the pool to rescue someone. The child is fine, however my nerves were spent for the rest of the day. We also lost a wonderful member of our Disney family. RIP Robin, you're legacy lives on every day here in Disney World. Things are a bit somber around housing. The show must go on.  Tomorrow is my day off, and it is my final week of one class and a field trip for the other. Then back to work for 6 am shifts in a row...... I am tired, looking forward to a couple days off when low season starts.

This weeks motto for everyone on the College Program. This week has been really hard mentally and physically on all of us. We are all working crazy hours, and of course it is the week that all of our major assignments are due for classes. So on top of a 50 hour work week, my group and I turned in a 50 page business plan. We are pooped, and we are ready for summer peak to end. which it will in just a few more weeks. Then we go to non peak season which we are all looking forward to greatly. In other news all the fall people are arriving! Which is amazing because that means that we have been here for two months now! I can't believe we are already a week into August. They have already started setting up for Halloween here. The celebration officially starts September 1st with Mickey's not so scary halloween party. Last night we had a girls night at Magic kingdom. Monique, Lillie and I rode so many rides. We were laughing at everything because we were just so tired. 

I have been having a bit of homesickness this week because it is just so stressful, so finding little things to distract me are really nice. I might do a couple of auditions in the coming weeks, we shall see how that goes. I have shoes on order so if I decide to do one I will have shoes other than my awesome new nike dance and yoga shoes. which are awesome and I love them, and I never want to take them off since they are so comfy. I am afraid to dance in them because i don't want to get them dirty. 

I have been at All Star Resorts this week which has been a real change. I like it but it is crazy. There are 6 pools, 4 of them are the normal busy, but two of them are crazy. Three more days at All Star then back to non busy Animal Kingdom. At all star you walk a lot more than at Animal Kingdom. At AK you normally walk 5-7 miles in a shift. On one stand alone at All Star at the Grand Slam pool, you walk at least three miles. You are on that stand three times in a night, you can easily do 10-12 miles in a shift. and my feet show it. Bruised completely, and a new one for me, I walked so much that my feet actually bled. ouch. 

I just found out that there is a cross country train that I could use to get back to Oregon in January. I love taking the train, so I am excited to look into taking it. The route goes along the eastern sea board then chicago to california then up the west coast. It is certainly something to look into. Plus with all my stuff it might be easier to take a train than to fly... I am trying to spend my money wisely, which I am actually doing, but there are so many cute things that I just must have :p I only buy one of those things each week. And soon are Christmas discount comes out and then there will be no holding back! 

I know it doesn't really look it, but I am tanner than I have ever been in my life. I do love the sun, and my hair has grown so much since I got here. I don't know when my next post will be since I am working overtime for the next week, hopefully after I will go back to my 38-42 hour a week schedule. Those schedules are much nicer to me :P and they are a lot easier on my feet. It is still very hot here, and will be at least through the end of the month. IT is supposed to feel like 100 until about 8 pm tonight, and that is when we have the 80% chance of rain and thunder. Right now it is only 89 right now, however it feels like 98. hmmm. I don't think I have anything else to say for today. :) more photos to be posted in the next week, I am wanting to take a nap before work so I won't post them now. P.S. daily naps are 100% needed while on the College Program. 

Well I had to miss my first day of work  today because of the 24 hr stomach flu :( not fun at all. Having a fever while it is 90 + degrees outside is also an interesting feeling. I am on the mend now, and will hopefully be going back to work tomorrow.