Today is my beautiful mother's birthday!!! Last year I drove to Missoula to surprise her and scared her and made her cry in the process...hehe...I wish I could have pulled off a surprise this year but it would have been a little pricey. None the less happy birthday mom!
So I just finished watching the USA lose in overtime to Canada in hockey...dangit...what a great game though!!! I am hoping to make a trip to Tampa in the next month or two and watch Ryan Miller play for the Buffalo Sabres!!!
So I survived the week and have the next two days off :) This morning I had to be at work at 7:15...gross...but we had "The Story Unfolds" class which explains the back story of the whole park. It was pretty cool and I learned a lot and had plenty of laughs because there were about 12 ODF kids in there with me. The class is set up about 6 weeks after you arrive to help you interact with the guests...as if I had a problem with that. I got off at 1:15 and came home and took a nap! It was wonderful :)
Tonight I am going to the House of Blues with some girls from work. It is a club in Downtown Disney that we get into for free on Sunday nights and get free drinks until midnight! The ideal night out for the paid-by-the-hour poor child that I am.
I have my first class tomorrow morning and I am looking forward to it. It is People Management and is supposed to cover how Disney handles all of its employees. I am hoping that it will offer some good networking opportunities. And we might even have a backstage tour or two :)
Have a great last day of February and hopefully you can watch the closing ceremonies of the Olympics.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Death Week
In a matter of 12 hours I will have survived my self titled "death week". Why was this week death week you ask? Well Chris left Monday and Tuesday I was back in the swing for 4 days of funnel. Yes of my 5 scheduled days this week 4 of them were in funnel. UGH UGH UGH UGH!!!! The kicker is I was scheduled to close funnel those 4 days...not just work there but close the location UGH X 4 again.
Today is the fourth one and I will be the happiest camper when I get to come home and go to sleep tonight. Tuesday wasn't too bad I kept it pretty clean all day. Juan was training Alex and they had an hour after closing before they were scheduled to go...well instead of staying and helping for 30 minutes like you are supposed to they bolted and didn't even take things like bottled water and garbage back to base which is what you do if you aren't the closer. It is just a little thing to help the closer out. So I spent three hours cleaning by myself. However when my gram reads this I am sure she will have to do a double take and my mom will probably tear up...but I got an "award" for how clean my area was! It is called a service fanatic and you get one for great service or good attitude or good cleaning. A leader has to approve of the card but anyone can nominate you. Well Dan who is a coordinator checked my area at the end of the day and I got the card yesterday. :)
Wednesday was flawless with cleaning funnel because I had help so I got to leave a half hour early :)
Thursday...oh Thursday...Juan was training Alex in funnel again and it was their turn to close. I was scheduled to help them close but some people called into work so I had to give two breaks during the day. And then I had to help close the coffee stand...which is a piece of cake or coffee cake if you prefer...hehe. Well I got back from giving breaks and it was Juan and Alex's turn to take their break...they left at 1:20. They got the approval to bank out before coming back since they had to close. No one was in the GT's office so it should have been fast. If the office is empty I can bank out in 10 minutes, 15 tops. Well Juan comes back at 3:40. It was no time to go close coffee so I would only get like a twenty minute break instead of my hour. I was furious! It had taken him over an hour to bank out...when no one was in the office. I am not one to complain at work too much and especially not to the leader's. But one of them knew that Juan had ditched without helping on Tuesday. So I told the leaders that he took over two hours for his one hour break and bankout...and that I didn't get my break. (So I got paid for this time). This is not the first time they have had issues with Juan and all of my friends that had him for a trainer hated it...so we will see what happens.
Yesterday was great. I worked in campfire treats with JiYoung. We had a system down and rocked it and rarely our guest were waiting for their treats. Katie and I had plans to hang out with Scott, Lisa, Ashley, and Mikey...the family we stayed with when we first got here. We were supposed to meet at 6 and I was scheduled to get off at 5:45. So I wanted to get out on time and I had to close by myself so I banked out during my break to save me time at the end of the day. I started cleaning at 4:30 and everything was great until 5:30 when the ice cream machine still hadn't thawed. I finally got it thawed and it was now 6 but everything was clean...all I had to do was have a leader come check off my area. 2 calls waiting and 45 minutes later I walked back to base to ask for a walk because no one ever came. I finally got checked off and left work at 7. Over an hour later than scheduled...grr...Lisa and Scott didn't care too much. Katie met them in the Rainforest Cafe (outside of Animal Kingdom) and they had drinks while they waited.
We finally met up and went to Epcot and walked around the World pavilion and I got the Mexican food I had been craving all day!!! We had a good time filled with plenty of laughs and griping about how cold it has been here. It was almost 25 degrees colder than the average yesterday...ugh.
I had no clean costumes so I got up this morning early to do laundry before work. We have an inspection on Monday. I think it is basically an excuse to steal more of our money...as if $85 dollars for half of a room per week isn't enough. If it isn't how they like it they will fine every person in the apartment $30...absolutely ridiculous. Whatever. We are a pretty clean group to begin with but we are all scared to get fined so Sunday will be a cleaning frenzy.
Hope all of you are well. Feel free to write to me and let me know how you are doing :)
Today is the fourth one and I will be the happiest camper when I get to come home and go to sleep tonight. Tuesday wasn't too bad I kept it pretty clean all day. Juan was training Alex and they had an hour after closing before they were scheduled to go...well instead of staying and helping for 30 minutes like you are supposed to they bolted and didn't even take things like bottled water and garbage back to base which is what you do if you aren't the closer. It is just a little thing to help the closer out. So I spent three hours cleaning by myself. However when my gram reads this I am sure she will have to do a double take and my mom will probably tear up...but I got an "award" for how clean my area was! It is called a service fanatic and you get one for great service or good attitude or good cleaning. A leader has to approve of the card but anyone can nominate you. Well Dan who is a coordinator checked my area at the end of the day and I got the card yesterday. :)
Wednesday was flawless with cleaning funnel because I had help so I got to leave a half hour early :)
Thursday...oh Thursday...Juan was training Alex in funnel again and it was their turn to close. I was scheduled to help them close but some people called into work so I had to give two breaks during the day. And then I had to help close the coffee stand...which is a piece of cake or coffee cake if you prefer...hehe. Well I got back from giving breaks and it was Juan and Alex's turn to take their break...they left at 1:20. They got the approval to bank out before coming back since they had to close. No one was in the GT's office so it should have been fast. If the office is empty I can bank out in 10 minutes, 15 tops. Well Juan comes back at 3:40. It was no time to go close coffee so I would only get like a twenty minute break instead of my hour. I was furious! It had taken him over an hour to bank out...when no one was in the office. I am not one to complain at work too much and especially not to the leader's. But one of them knew that Juan had ditched without helping on Tuesday. So I told the leaders that he took over two hours for his one hour break and bankout...and that I didn't get my break. (So I got paid for this time). This is not the first time they have had issues with Juan and all of my friends that had him for a trainer hated it...so we will see what happens.
Yesterday was great. I worked in campfire treats with JiYoung. We had a system down and rocked it and rarely our guest were waiting for their treats. Katie and I had plans to hang out with Scott, Lisa, Ashley, and Mikey...the family we stayed with when we first got here. We were supposed to meet at 6 and I was scheduled to get off at 5:45. So I wanted to get out on time and I had to close by myself so I banked out during my break to save me time at the end of the day. I started cleaning at 4:30 and everything was great until 5:30 when the ice cream machine still hadn't thawed. I finally got it thawed and it was now 6 but everything was clean...all I had to do was have a leader come check off my area. 2 calls waiting and 45 minutes later I walked back to base to ask for a walk because no one ever came. I finally got checked off and left work at 7. Over an hour later than scheduled...grr...Lisa and Scott didn't care too much. Katie met them in the Rainforest Cafe (outside of Animal Kingdom) and they had drinks while they waited.
We finally met up and went to Epcot and walked around the World pavilion and I got the Mexican food I had been craving all day!!! We had a good time filled with plenty of laughs and griping about how cold it has been here. It was almost 25 degrees colder than the average yesterday...ugh.
I had no clean costumes so I got up this morning early to do laundry before work. We have an inspection on Monday. I think it is basically an excuse to steal more of our money...as if $85 dollars for half of a room per week isn't enough. If it isn't how they like it they will fine every person in the apartment $30...absolutely ridiculous. Whatever. We are a pretty clean group to begin with but we are all scared to get fined so Sunday will be a cleaning frenzy.
Hope all of you are well. Feel free to write to me and let me know how you are doing :)
Monday, February 22, 2010
Pictures From Chris' Visit
Rasta Chris in the make your own toys store.
An elephant friend from the safari
Chris won me this octopus in Dinoland
On his way to Dinoland
Chris entering Epcot
At dinner in Germany
A Pirate's Life for Chris
Chris with his friend Mickey Mouse from the original Steamboat Willie
Waiting for PhilHarMagic...a 3-D concert cartoon.
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