Wednesday, June 22, 2011
This was a great day! I had unpacked the night before and I knew where I was supposed to be Wed morning. All the "new arrivals" had to meet for our first meeting, and they basically told us all about the program we're doing. I met a couple people and then I recognized Arin, one of the girls I had met and hung out with in Toronto at the interview. She's from BC and she was with Kyra, who's from PEI. After the morning meeting was over we all went for lunch together. And on the way we also ran into Brooke and Rebecca, a couple of the other girls we met in Toronto, and they came with us too. They have been here for a while, I think Rebecca came in April and Brooke's been here at least 3 weeks, so that was really nice to see familiar faces. In the afternoon we "newbies" got on a bus and went to fill out some paperwork in Vista Way. They took our pics and we got our housing IDs so we could ride the buses. That didn't take long so afterwards Arin and Kyra and I made plans to go to Publix for groceries. They had met a boy from Mexico (Javier) on Tues so he came with us. We had a great time and spent a couple hours grocery shopping which I always like:) After we had come back and put away our 10,000 pounds of groceries we 4 all met up again and walked to the mall. Once we got there, however, we didn't know what we wanted to do (since we're all being careful with our money until we start getting paid) so Javier suggested we take the bus to Epcot, ride the monorail and check out a few resorts in the Parks. Now it's interesting because we don't have our Disney IDs yet so we can't get into the parks but the monorail doesn't cost anything and so you can just explore the resorts and boy is that entertaining in itself! The first one we went to was Disney's Polynesian Resort, which has waterfalls and huge green trees and grass huts INSIDE and then a water park outside and its own private beach. So we waded in the water, strolled on the nice white sade, and lounged beside the beach for a bit and that was so nice! The weather was beautiful (as always haha) and we even found wi-fi there haha:) After we left that resort we checked out Disney's Grand Floridian Resort! OH MY GOSH! It was absolutely amazingly gorgeous! I would never decorate this way but it gave me goosebumps! I'm talking marble pillars and gold stairway railings and white balconies and huge old-fashioned chandeliers hanging from the domed glass ceiling! It was incredible! Just classy in every way! And I think someone got married the day we went because there were many little girls in white dresses and then those who weren't in white were dressed up to the nines as their fav princesses and there was even a little boy dressed as a prince! oh it was SO adorable! I definitely cried! And there was a live band playing Disney music on one of the balconies and a huge grand piano in the lobby! Fantastic! Absolutely amazingly fantastic! And that was all INSIDE! Outside its all white and just as elegant and classy as inside but there's also a pool and some fountains and palm trees:) Wow is all I can say:) The next one we went to was the Contemporary Resort which is different from any other hotel or resort I've ever been to or seen. From the outside it looks slightly odd but modern and the monorail actually stops INSIDE of it. And there are def elevators but there are also escalators everywhere inside this one. It's decorated with painted metal and brushed steel and neutral tones and really neat architecture and is more how I would decorate. This one has more conference rooms and there were not a lot of people there but we had a really nice time. Arin and I even found a Canada sign outside one of the conference rooms haha:) After a little while we headed back and got to see everything lit up which was really cool. The bus driver who brought us back was really cool too! After we got back the three of us Canadians went to a CANADA WELCOME party which was fun. There are SO many Canadians working here! I think there were about 60 people all squished into one apartment haha. It was crazy but it was fun:) And Arin and I became buddies because we both don't drink so that's really awesome:)
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This was a great day! I had unpacked the night before and I knew where I was supposed to be Wed morning. All the "new arrivals" had to meet for our first meeting, and they basically told us all about the program we're doing. I met a couple people and then I recognized Arin, one of the girls I had met and hung out with in Toronto at the interview. She's from BC and she was with Kyra, who's from PEI. After the morning meeting was over we all went for lunch together. And on the way we also ran into Brooke and Rebecca, a couple of the other girls we met in Toronto, and they came with us too. They have been here for a while, I think Rebecca came in April and Brooke's been here at least 3 weeks, so that was really nice to see familiar faces. In the afternoon we "newbies" got on a bus and went to fill out some paperwork in Vista Way. They took our pics and we got our housing IDs so we could ride the buses. That didn't take long so afterwards Arin and Kyra and I made plans to go to Publix for groceries. They had met a boy from Mexico (Javier) on Tues so he came with us. We had a great time and spent a couple hours grocery shopping which I always like:) After we had come back and put away our 10,000 pounds of groceries we 4 all met up again and walked to the mall. Once we got there, however, we didn't know what we wanted to do (since we're all being careful with our money until we start getting paid) so Javier suggested we take the bus to Epcot, ride the monorail and check out a few resorts in the Parks. Now it's interesting because we don't have our Disney IDs yet so we can't get into the parks but the monorail doesn't cost anything and so you can just explore the resorts and boy is that entertaining in itself! The first one we went to was Disney's Polynesian Resort, which has waterfalls and huge green trees and grass huts INSIDE and then a water park outside and its own private beach. So we waded in the water, strolled on the nice white sade, and lounged beside the beach for a bit and that was so nice! The weather was beautiful (as always haha) and we even found wi-fi there haha:) After we left that resort we checked out Disney's Grand Floridian Resort! OH MY GOSH! It was absolutely amazingly gorgeous! I would never decorate this way but it gave me goosebumps! I'm talking marble pillars and gold stairway railings and white balconies and huge old-fashioned chandeliers hanging from the domed glass ceiling! It was incredible! Just classy in every way! And I think someone got married the day we went because there were many little girls in white dresses and then those who weren't in white were dressed up to the nines as their fav princesses and there was even a little boy dressed as a prince! oh it was SO adorable! I definitely cried! And there was a live band playing Disney music on one of the balconies and a huge grand piano in the lobby! Fantastic! Absolutely amazingly fantastic! And that was all INSIDE! Outside its all white and just as elegant and classy as inside but there's also a pool and some fountains and palm trees:) Wow is all I can say:) The next one we went to was the Contemporary Resort which is different from any other hotel or resort I've ever been to or seen. From the outside it looks slightly odd but modern and the monorail actually stops INSIDE of it. And there are def elevators but there are also escalators everywhere inside this one. It's decorated with painted metal and brushed steel and neutral tones and really neat architecture and is more how I would decorate. This one has more conference rooms and there were not a lot of people there but we had a really nice time. Arin and I even found a Canada sign outside one of the conference rooms haha:) After a little while we headed back and got to see everything lit up which was really cool. The bus driver who brought us back was really cool too! After we got back the three of us Canadians went to a CANADA WELCOME party which was fun. There are SO many Canadians working here! I think there were about 60 people all squished into one apartment haha. It was crazy but it was fun:) And Arin and I became buddies because we both don't drink so that's really awesome:)
Sounds like your having a blast as usual!!!! I'll keep on watching your blog to see how things are going!
ReplyDeleteThat's so awesome there are so many Canadians there! I sent the link to your blog to my sister, so hopefully she gets on and reads it so she knows what to expect when she applies and starts to work there!
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