Picked Up A Shift and Met With the Manager

Sooooooooooooo much to write about.

I picked up a shift for the first time yesterday. When you pick up a shift, it's generally in a different location. I think the point (and the reason they mostly just let College Program kids do it) is so you can meet new people and network more. Well I don't know about that, but I LOVED it!

I picked up a shift in strollers at the front of EPCOT so I wasn't very far away (maybe another time a shift will be available in a different park!). I was right beside the golf ball and it was so cool to look up every five minutes and see the typical "metro going by the golf ball" scene that so many think of when they think of EPCOT.

I started my shift just by collecting the strollers as people returned them(cleaning/disinfecting them, putting them away, etc.) as well as giving them to people as they came. Oh, and when I say "strollers" I mean wheelchairs too. Just we rented more strollers.

I had these two identical twin boys come (4 years old, so stinkin' cute!) and I played with them while they waited for dad to finish paying. It's funny just what little silly things can entertain a little kid, and then in turn entertain adults. Haha.

At the end of the night we had to walk around the empty park (with the water show going and lights in sidewalks) and look for strollers. It was awesome! The people there were really nice and fun to talk to as well.

Jean (my Chinese friend) asked me about more words today. She asked me what a "fighting machine" was. When I explained it means you're really tough she asked me what tough meant. Later, she asked me what "trick" meant. I tried to explain it to her but was having trouble. So I told her to give me a high five and then I moved my hand at the last second and said, "Haha, I tricked you!" I still don't think she got the meaning of trick-or-treat but hopefully it helped a little.

I read about the new plans for Magic Kingdom. It's gonna be AWESOME!!! Way bigger, more rides, and pretty much just incredibleness all around.

In other housing news our management here is possibly the best I've ever seen. We have a clean check this coming Friday and if we're super clean they buy our apartment treats! If we're too dirty they charge us each $20 and take pictures of the mess and not only post those pictures in the clubhouse (which is super embarrassing to look at by the way) but they said they send those pictures to future employers as well! I'm pretty sure we'll end up as one of those apartments who is just in between and doesn't get anything special or negative but hey. We'll see.

Maintenance is amazing too, though. When we report a problem (like our food grinder thing broke) they have someone over that same day within a few hours to fix it! Incredible.

Anyway, I've got stuff to do, places to be... ya know. But I'll try and post pictures here pretty soon!

Amazing Day... And I'm Not Even in the Parks Yet!

Since I finished all my meetings yesterday, I had today off. Meaning nothing to do. I slept in. All the way until 8:15. Yeah. Pathetic.

So I got up but our beds are super noisy so I woke up my roommate as I rolled out of bed, I think. Oh well. I grabbed breakfast and my roommate went to take a shower. Except the hot water wasn't working. Eventually we realized that it's just that the hot and cold waters are mixed up. You have to turn it to cold to make it hot. My old apartment was like this too, so it's not really a big change to me. The lights also took forever to get bright in the bathroom, but it turns out they're special "earth energy" lights that are supposed to do that.

Don't get me wrong, our apartments are SO TOTALLY AWESOME!!! I LOVE where I'm living. While two of my roommates were in a meeting, I went with Natalie to explore the property. We walked by the pool and walked around Mickey's Retreat (which is tons of play area, but only for a group bigger than the two of us), we checked out the weight rooms and the clubhouse and figured out how to get some other places. We learned more and more of our benefits for working here.

We took an inventory of the stuff in our apartment and it turns out we were missing quite a lot (mostly just dishes and kitchen stuff). We took the paper down to the front desk and the lady thanked us so we turned to leave. "Don't you want your stuff?" she asked us. We didn't realize they would give it to us right there, no questions asked. Especially since we were missing so much, we figured they would think we just missed an area of the kitchen. But no, we got it all within a few minutes.

On that sheet we also put the problems within our apartment. Within two hours we had a maintenance man at our door and it was fixed. Incredible service!

Now if only the internet would be a little nicer...

I was going to Walmart to get some stuff I'd forgotten and brought Kelly and some other friends along. That took forever, but I'm glad I have vegetables now!

The pool party was from 6-8pm. Free pizza. I was definitely there! It was Star Wars themed and they had all you can eat pizza, chips, soft drinks, and ice cream! All kinds of Star Wars characters were there and they blasted Star Wars music. It was amazing. Our $100 program fee at work! Now I can say that I've been to a real college party.BYU-Idaho just doesn't count. Haha! :) There's a Twilight movie night next week with popcorn and drinks.

We left after about an hour (after Natalie answered one of the trivia questions and won a free beach ball and we got our pictures with Jedi Mickey and Luke and Leia... I wanted the storm trooper but we couldn't find him again) and went to our own pool in Chatham (the party was in Patterson). We went swimming here because there were less people. I'm not sure we'd have fit in the pool at the party at Patterson. But it was just so cool.

We hung out at the pool for a looooong time. We were alone in the beginning but as the night came it grew more and more popular. After a while of hanging out there we finally left. It's been a pretty relaxing, slightly boring, yet fun day. We keep talking about how tomorrow we'll finally be allowed in the parks and we're all super excited about it. Tomorrow things will probably start getting busy and I may be too busy to blog. Maybe. Hopefully. We shall see. I have both Sunday and Monday off at this point so maybe I can spend those days playing. We'll see. Anyway, I'm super tired, I may even go to bed soon. Hopefully soon I'll make friends and then not be lame enough to go to bed before ten at night! Haha!