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At last, I finally get to sit down and tell you all about the crazy last few weeks!! Ever since January 10th - when my last few College Program buddies went back to their home countries, but the United States was bombarded by Lauren & Kat's arrival - it's all been pretty much non-stop here. I was lucky enough to get 9 days off work so I could spend time with my friends, and discovered that it is definitely more exhausting being a tourist in Disney than working there!! The first few days the girls were here we hit Animal Kingdom and Sea World, as well as indulging in the classic girly activity of SHOPPING! (Hard to resist when the exchange rate is so good...) My feet were killing me after only a couple of days ... read more

Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas everybody!! Even though Disney is all about the holiday season, I'm still not feeling particularly Christmassy - although right now I'm sat in my living room surrounded by Christmas lights and watching the Wizard of Oz, which isn't entirely unfestive!! But Christmas Day is on Tuesday and I still keep referring to it as 'Tuesday', not Christmas Day. I think it's because I'm still wandering around in a vest top and jeans rather than freezing my butt off in Yorkshire!! The last few weeks at work have been quiet, because of the pre-Christmas lull, but to be honest I haven't been at work very much because my friend Andy came to stay for a week - so I got other people to work my shifts in my place :) Me and ... read more

Hello one and all!! It's been a little while since I last I last wrote anything, but it's certainly been a very busy week!! In between working odd hours and sleeping to get over the odd hours, I've been out doing stuff in the parks with my friends as much as possible, so there hasn't been much time to sit down and write all about it! But now, here I am :) Last week saw Disney start gearing up for Christmas - now in my opinion, Christmas starts on December 1st and not a moment before, but given that this year I am living in the very heart of the American dream I think I'm going to have to make an exception and just get into the spirit! Over the last weekend the annual Gingerbread House ... read more

Hello everybody!! This weekend has been one of extreme randomness and general craziness. After a week of training at the Grand Floridian, my brain was just about ready to explode - as were those of my friends who were in a similar situation - so come Saturday we needed to have some fun. First of all though was class!! This is week two of my lectures at UCF and so far they are going well. Despite having been promised faithfully that there would be no homework, I do have 3 projects to complete, but ultimately I want to get the most possible out of this course so I'm determined to give it a go. 4 hours of learning on top of a long week at work made us all pretty tired though, so we decided to ... read more

Afternoon everybody! Today is the fourth and final day of my training at Disney University on how to be a good checker-inner. Last year I thought there was a lot to remember being a vacation planner (fact fans: did you know there are over 100 different ticket combinations available at Walt Disney World?)...it turns out that there's even more when you are on the front desk! You need to know about ticketing AND check-in, check-out, in-house procedures, groups, retail packages, wholesale packages, blah blah blah....AND, do all this while remembering to say 'assist' instead of 'help' and call them 'guests', NOT customers. No wonder I am so exhausted at the moment, my brain is being overloaded with information! My friend who I lived with last year was training me for the first couple of days which ... read more