MY PURPLE FOLDER CAME IN!!! I’ve been checking the mail box everyday when I get home and today I looked and a big white envelope was in there and I pretty much freaked out. Even though I’ve already been invited and accepted my invitation it kind of doesn’t seem official until you get your folder. So since we have a locked mail box, I tried to pull it out but I just couldn’t do it. So I had to wait for mom to get home with the key which was pretty much agonizing. Lol. It’s pretty much the most beautiful thing ever!
I think that when you open the folder “Welcome” from Brother Bear should start playing. LOL.
Well the roommate hunt is over. I was really worried about it, but it was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be and a lot faster. There are four of us and we’re planning on getting a two bedroom apartment in either Chatham or Patterson. I’m sooo excited! They seem like a great group of girls! I think the only down side will living with a Fairy-God-Mother in training…Considering the fact that that was my first choice and wanted it really bad! And now I’ll have to hear all her amazing stories when she comes home from work! (Hehe) I’m just kidding…I can’t wait to room with her!
Sooo…I got my front license plate I’ve been wanting really badly! It’s only the cutest thing ever:
The days are going by sooo incredibly slow. I want to be in Disney already!
So I’m watching one of my favorite Disney movies…The Emperor’s New Grove! It’s hilarious. And one that people often forget about.
I bought the cutest Mickey Mouse pajama pants at the consignment store the other day for $5. I love them!
So I made my Walt Disney World College Program Countdown last night! It’s super cute and I’m super proud of it! Everyone on the Spring 2011 CP facebook page was making one so I wanted one. But I wanted to make a creative one. So….I bought a Mickey Mouse Club House coloring book at Dollar General the other day and in it were these Mickey Mouse faces. So I made my numbers out of the faces and colored a Mickey to go with it. This was the end result:
87 more days. Oh my goodness how I absolutely cannot wait! I keep reading people’s blogs from other programs and it just makes me more excited!
Today was the Disney College Program at TCC and yes, I went even though I’ve already been accepted and pretty much know everything there is to know about it. It was awesome. I got to watch the videos and hear more stories. It was great for a Disney addict. And it made me even more excited if that’s even possible. My favorite part was hearing about how one woman started out as a custodial cast member in the college program and now she’s a wedding planner for Disney. I was like OMG that’s my dream job!!! I’ve always dreamed of having my wedding at Disney. So to be a planner and help people have their dream wedding would be the greatest job ever. Just saying.
I’m really excited because hopefully while I’m down there I’ll get to volunteer for Give Kids the World which is a partner with the Make a Wish foundation. That would be awesome! So hopefully I’ll have enough time to do that. If not, I’ll make time.
So seriously…I see Disney everywhere now. For example, today I had lunch at Wendy’s and one of my chicken nuggets was shaped like Mickey! It was my Mickey Chicky! LOL.
I got my first “congratulations/Disney gift” today. My wonderful sister Robin got me laundry necessities. And it smells sooooo good! It’s lavender and it’s making my room smell wonderful! It really sucks I have to wait 3 months to use it. =/ But thank you Robin!!!
I can’t wait for January to be here! Come on Disney!
Soooo…after a long 7 day wait, I received the most gorgeous purple email! And to all you future CPers, a little word of advice…don’t check your email while driving! Haha. I checked my email every chance I got and somehow I forgot to check it when I got off work. So I was driving to Wal-Mart and was like “oh yah my email”! So I checked it (while driving, my bad) and completely freaked out! All I saw was Disney Recruiting: Invitation! I was like OMG OMG OMG! Then opened it and only read the first line before calling my mom. It said “Dear Megan, Congratulations! You have been selected to participate as a Custodial Cast Member on the Disney College Program in the Spring Advantage 2011 Season”. YAY! Yes…custodial. Trust me, it’s a lot better than it sounds. Lol. Everything I’ve read said that custodial is one of the best jobs to have at Disney. You get a lot of freedom and the most guest interaction. So I’m super excited. The only thing I’m worried about is getting stuck to work somewhere other than one of the parks. Because I really want to be in a park and not on one of the resorts. So I guess we’ll just hope for the best and see what happens. I mean after all, it’s Disney for goodness sakes! The most magical place in the world people!
And then I had a bit of a break down when I got home. Long story short, I was actually considering not going. I had a lot of choices to make and I was so overwhelmed! And then I sat back and thought “Megan, are you really considering not accepting your dream job?!” I mean, this is the opportunity of a life time!
Soooo….I went for it! I decided to give it all over to God. He knows what He’s doing and I just need to keep my faith up. So I logged in and accepted Disney’s invitation, paid my deposit, and selected my arrival and departure dates. My dates for my program are January 19 through August 5! No turning back now! Yes, I still have a lot of choices to make and I will definitely have to budget like never before, but I’m positive that everything will work out.
So I know it’s only been two days since my interview, but I can’t help but constantly check my email. Today while doing my homework in the TCC library, I decided I would check my email and I had an e-mail from Disney! To bad it was only a thank you email thanking me for interviewing. I about had a heart attack right there in the library. And then I was thinking and wondering what would happen if I checked my email during class (or in the library) and I got an acceptance letter?! Because I know when I get it I’m going to scream and jump off the walls! So to keep from risking the chance of disrupting an entire class of students, I should probably only check my email where it won’t matter that I go completely nuts. Hehe. I also obsessively check and read the Disney College Program Spring 2011 facebook page. Which can kind of be depressing sometimes because that’s where people talk about being accepted. But that doesn’t keep me from reading everything on the page. And of course I obsessively talk about Disney now. And I’m not sure how much more I can talk about it, but I have feeling once I get accepted it’s going to get a lot worse. Soooo…all I can do is wait and think purple! The Jack Johnson song sitting, waiting, wishing comes to mind right now :)
Soooo…for those of you who don’t know, I’m applying for the Walt Disney World College Program for Spring 2011. And if you don’t know, the WDWCP is a program for college students that allow them to live in Orlando and intern with Disney World. It’s a great opportunity to gain some work experience and Disney look great on any resume! I saw flyers at TCC and thought that it would be awesome to intern at Disney but just blew it off because I thought it would be impossible to get in, but one day I actually read the flyer and looked it up online that night and the next day I applied. In order to be accepted into the program you have to apply, pass an online interview, and then do a phone interview.
So I had my phone interview Tuesday night at and I feel like it went really well. There was only one part/answer that I would have changed. And I’m really hoping that it doesn’t ruin my chance of getting my top role. Here’s hoping!
My phone interviewer was super nice and really bubbly. I guess no matter what job you have in Disney you HAVE to be bubbly! But hey, it IS Disney.
She asked me basic questions such as any felonies, confirmed my e-mail, if I lived in the US, if I was taking at least one college class, and if I was 18. Then she went over the “Disney Look” to make sure I looked normal. Hehe. Then she asked why I wanted to be in the program. And then she asked me about the living situation and what I thought the biggest problem with the living would be. Then she asked me about which roles I would be willing to do (at Disney they are called roles not jobs, because at Disney we are constantly putting on a show). Right off the back she asked me if I would be willing to do Character Attendant before she asked me to name off my top roles or anything else which was really weird. I then gave her my top role and why. Now I’ve read that they only ask you for your top 3 but she didn’t stop me after 3 and I ended up giving her 5 and including Character Attendant we talked about 6! She asked me questions about all 6. Here’s my top 6. Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique (which is a Boutique within Cinderella’s castle were little girls come to be made into princesses!). Attraction (which is operating one of the rides, loading and unloading people). Front gate operations (taking tickets and whatnot). Photopass photography (those people who try to take your picture). Custodial (cleaning the parks, but A LOT of guest interaction). And apparently character attendant lol (helping the characters get around).
So she asked me specific questions about each role. For BBB she asked what would I do if a child was hesitant to get her hair done? For attendant she asked if I was ok with public speaking and how I would handle an emergency. For front gate operations she asked, since I would be the first person a person would meet at the park how would I make that first meeting magical? For photopass she asked if I had any experience with photography, what kind of camera do I use and what my favorite picture was that I’ve taken and why was it special. For custodial she asked how I felt about cleaning and if I’d be ok will all the questions that guest ask. And for character attendant she asked why I would want to do that role. She also asked question like do I work better alone or with a team and what pace do you prefer to work at. It was pretty easy. Like I said, I only have one regret. And that’s when she asked me if I had any hair or make up experience for BBB I just said no and that was it. I should have been like, well I don’t have any professional experience but I do work with kids and occasionally play with their hair and I’m a fast learner! Ugh! Oh well, it’s in God’s hands now.
The interview lasted 26 minutes and 25 seconds which is a really good time! But she was 6 minutes late on calling me. Which drove me crazy!
So now all I have to do is wait. Which is going to absolutely agonizing! They say it takes 3 to 4 weeks to know if you’ve been accepted. But I’ve read that some people have gotten their emails 2 to 5 days later and others who had to wait 6 weeks! So here’s hoping it won’t take very long. I’m being positive!
Ever since I’ve learned about the program I’ve done nothing but research it. I spend hours reading other CP’s blogs and read every discussion board about WDWCP. And my family is really sick of me talking about Disney. But I don’t care because I’m sooo excited! If I get accepted I’ll be gone for 7 months from January to August. It would such an amazing opportunity. And plus, I get into the parks free! So hopefully I’ll be working for the mouse in a couple months!
