This is going to be a long post.

Sorry it has been a while since I last updated but things have been busy.

April 20th (Wednesday): I worked 11 am to 10pm so I opened and closed and I also learned how to do the money drop which was interesting.  basically you need to scan in all the paperwork and then put the money into the machine which will count it and put it in a safe but if the machine does not take it then you have to do it manually and put it manually into the safe which involves you standing there waving the money bag in front of a camera for 5 sec and then putting it in, all in all it’s not that hard and Canadian’s usually don’t have to do it only when it gets insane do we have to worry about it usually the UK does it for us Canadians.

April 21st (Thursday): I worked 1pm to 12:30am because they decided to move the magic hours to the Thursday, I almost got a ER because someone actually wanted to work the magic hours and asked me if I wanted to give them up and of course I did I had to work opening the next morning anyways but it didn’t work management wouldn’t let us so I ended up working the full hours, and Magic hours get quite interesting especially around 11pm when the beer cart closes down and people still want to drink around the world, we had people yell about how Canada sucks and how we are going to loose at the NHL play offs and so on, my co-worker and I looked at each other and she goes “why does everyone think we only care about hockey, and how is saying we are going to lose at hockey going to get us to give them beer?”  we were watching people who were actually trying to get behind the beer cart to get there own beer but there were security and other cast members to get them out.

April 22nd (Friday): My ear plugged up. And I worked from 11 am to 9:30pm, I only got about 5 hours of sleep the night before and it was really hot out so between not having enough sleep and the heat and then the fact my ear decided to plug up I ended up feeling horrible, I felt nauseas, and ended up having a headache, I got home and passed out, but a good thing was that since it was earth day they had some events going on at work and I got a free backpack.

April 23rd (Saturday): I worked 1pm to 9:30 pm so I got a nice little sleep in , so I felt a lot better. It was really hot again but since I had more sleep I was able to take it a lot better.

April 24th (Sunday) : I worked from 11am to 9:30 am, It was also Easter so housing gave us some rice Krispy treats, the same ones they sell in the stores for $3. There wasn’t as many people as I thought there was going to be in the park, but apparently magic kingdom was packed. The UK and American adventure both has Easter egg hunts going on and the American Adventure also had Mr. and Mrs. Easter Bunny. 

April 25th (Monday) : I was a day off so I was going to go to Walmart and pick up a few things when I ran into AJ from the UK who was going to walk to Taco Time and asked if I wanted to come and he would walk with me to Publix, I never knew how to walk to Publix due to the fact that I get lost way to easily, so I said sure and because I did I now know how to get to Publix and Walgreens with out a bus and also how to get to the Outlet malls. After Publix I went to Epcot and took some pictures of the new additions to the flower and garden festival and I filmed illiminations, and because Magic Kingdoms fireworks weren’t until 10pm and illiminations was at 9pm I was able to also get Wishes at Magic Kingdom as will. When I was waiting for the monorail to take me to Magic kingdom I got into a conversation with a little boy beside me in line, he was about 4 and was playing with a buzz light year glow toy so I pretend he shot me and he started to talk to me about random stuff until the monorail came, they got into the car behind me and I heard the little boy tell the mom “I like that girl, she was nice”, so even on days off you can’t take the Disney training out of cast members. That night I also when to games night which only had a 4 person turn out again.

April 26th (Tuesday) : my 2nd day off, so I went to Animal Kingdom and actually went on the Yeti ride which I surprised myself that I actually went on, and I loved the self guided tours of the animals and the safari ride which was actually not packed for once, I also went and seen the shows, I then went to Hollywood studios and watched “Lights, Motor and action” the car stunt show and then I went for dinner because I don’t eat much I was able to just order a Kids meal and it was enough food for me and it also saved me $4, I then waited in line from 6pm to 7pm to get a seat for “Fantasmic” which I got front row so no heads in the way and the show started at 8:30pm.

April 27th (Wednesday) : I worked 11am to 5pm which was quite cool since it was the first time I actually got off before the park was closed, I also have developed a fan, a girl came back to the engraver and suddenly shouted “Melanie” when she saw me it took me a while to place her since I see a lot of people a day but she was someone who bought some bracelets before that were a pain to engrave and she was trying it again, this time it actually worked or so I thought. So I got my bump out and was walking to the cast exit when they ran up to me and explained that they gave me the wrong spelling so I told them to just go back to the cart and it will be fixed, she asked me if I was going on brake and if she could come back after my brake but I told her I was actually going home and that if she goes back to the cart they will happily fix it for her, but she didn’t want to get me into trouble so it took me a while to get to understand that no trouble will come to me if she goes back. That night was also a good bye party for a fellow merchie this one was personal for she was my trainer and my go to for problems, I also went to the throw out and got the award of being the only Oilers fan (the guy who was handing it down was also the only Oilers fan) so now I am the official Oilers fan until I leave and then I hand it down.

April 28th (Thursday): Today I was suppose to work 10:30 am to 9 pm but I looked and felt horrible so I found out from Andrew how to call in sick and so that means I now have one point on my recorded but I can call in for 3 days in a row and all that is on one point but I am feeling great now ( all besides a dang cough and the stupid plugged ear that I had since Friday) but I am going to see how I am tomorrow and if I am fine then I will be working a 13 hour day so that will be fun, drugs may end up being my best friend tomorrow.

Will that is it,

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Wow 1000 Views!!!

Ok first of all thank everyone you got my blog up to 1000 Views so that is cool.

Now lets see what have you missed; well….on:

April 15th (Friday): I worked magic hours which means I worked from 1pm to 12:30am, it was actually a little more busier then normal, more and more people are actually starting to come to EPCOT and go into the World showcase during magic hours instead of just staying at Future world.

April 16th (Saturday): I worked from 3:30 to 9:30, it was insane at the engraver for everyone wanted to buy a bracelet. Cool thing is when I got home it turned out that my roommate made us supper with enough left over for lunch. 

April 17th (Sunday):   I worked from 11:00am to 9:30pm which meant that I was opening and closing, that was not cool. we had another position up that never was on before and it was called “Cart Register 2” It pretty much meant that you helped out at cart doing what ever they needed down, now normally when we get a rotation (also called a bump) the order is Cart register to Trading post 1, Trading post 1 to Engraver, Engraver to Trading Post 2, that way everyone has a chance to be inside and out, will with Cart register 2 up, the Trading post 2 will move to Cart register 2…. or at least that is what is suppose to happen but no of course it all goes wrong fro me and I get stuck at trading post 2 for the whole day.

April 18th (Monday) : now normally this is one of my days off but because of Easter and the fact one of our cast members took the week off we all have to work 6 days. So I worked 3:45pm to 10pm, we had Cart register 2 up again so that should tell you the start of my day, I got one bump where I was told to take over Cart register 1 so they could take over Cart register 2 just so that the person on Cart register 2 could go for a break, one of my leaders was there and intersect it and told the person on Cart Register 1 to stay there and that I was going to be Cart Register 2 and I found out that it was the engraver incident all over again where no one changed my skills in the computer, so he did and the computer started to give me the cart register 2 shifts ALL DAY so that was counter productive. but that night I learned another duty of merch and that is that every now and then you will be scheduled to do the money drop for UK and Canada along with some one from the UK pavilion. I was suppose to do that but we were over crowded and they wanted to know if some one wanted a ER (Early Release) and I volunteered, I was so tired that I just wanted to go home.

April 19th (Tuesday): also known as today. I had a day off so I spent it at walmart, but first I went to vista was and picked up my SSN number and new work ID, for all of you going to be coming out, you will go for your SSN appointment about 2 weeks in (at 5am in the morning) and then it will be sent to the Vista way serves center which you will then have to make your way to vista and pick it up but they are really friendly there and they always have freshly made cookies. after picking up my ID I went to walmart where I got a air mattress and a DVD player, I needed the Air mattress because the beds are rock hard and I like to save my back from some pain, and I was getting tired watching movies on my computer when we have a TV so I got a CHEAP DVD player but it works well. I also got the new Harry Potter movie and watched that for the rest of they day until my roommate came home and loved the fact we have a DVD player she borrowed Tangled from her friend and we watched it, it is not that bad of a movie.

Couple of things that don’t fit any where else:

- My very cool camcorder works again, it was refusing to work at my old place but when I moved into here I discovered this week that it actually works 100% again so that made me very very happy.

- I’m trying to get involved with S.T.A.G.E which is a theatre club at Disney that puts on shows every few months.

- Tomorrow I will be working 11am to 10pm so a open to close along with a money drop, sounds fun.

Will that’s it;

Feel free to leave comment and questions and I will answer them the best I can.

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Weee No Blog Title Coming To Mind.

Hey, so today (Thursday) is a throw in but I decided not to go to it for security has Canadian’s red flagged. On Tuesday some Canadian’s and French decided to have a BBQ but some people brought out some beer and what not and you are not allowed to have alcohol outside of your house, well Security came and broke up the BBQ and saw the beer so they started confiscating housing ID’s until someone admitted to the beer, we lost one Canadian and 6 French got sent home, there was a Throw out yesterday and apparently it got shut down and so I just know that is what is going to happen to the Throw-in.

April 11: (Monday) I had the day off so I went and got grocreys and went to games night, which turned into a pool party for no one showed up and there were just 3 off us so we decided to just hit the pool.

April 12: (Tuesday) I hung around the house until I got bored and then went to Wal-mart for they had a brita water filter pitcher for $9, I didn’t really do much in the afternoon. I am however trying to get a bunch of people to come with me and try the Kitchen Sink.

 

This is the kitchen sink it has  8 scoops of ice cream, with all sorts of toppings ranging from candy bars, brownies, angel cake, sprinkles, cherries, bananas, strawberries, etc...AND A WHOLE CAN OF WHIPPED CREAM!

So far I have 4 Canadian’s and a few maybes from others, so this will be my goal to finally try this.

April 13: (Wed.) I worked 3:30 to 9:30 It was a pretty dead day there really wasn’t much people in the World Showcase, we also lost one of our Merch family it was her last day of the program, I will miss her.

April 14: (Thursday) I worked 3:30 to 9:30 and again it was dead we only did one page of engraving when we normally do 3 or 4. We also lost another member of our Merch family but this one decided to self term.

Today (Friday) I will be working 1 pm to 12:30 am which is the magic hours, I really hope attendance will pick up or the shift will be very very boring.

We are going into 55 hour work weeks as of next week so that will be good money, and I changed my direct deposit finally over to my bank.

On Sunday we meet the new Merch cast member so that will be cool.

Will that’s it,

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wow I have been here for a Month!

Sorry I haven’t updated in a while I have been working a lot, but lets see if I can fill in the blanks.

April 6th: I had “Safety in Motion” class so in other words it was a class on how to pick up a box for 2 hours, it was really boring. after class I went to work until 9:30.

April 7th: I had a meeting with France, and the UK at 8 am, they gave us free food and we even had a small pot of Tim Hortans for Canadians. at the end of the meeting there were still bags of bagels left that they were giving away so I took a bag, so now I have bagels. I killed 5 hours in EPCOT before I had to work at 3:30 and it was the most fun I had killing time before work usually I would kill time at malls or just looking around the store, it was so cool knowing that to kill time I could look around a Disney park. I am finally on the Engraver so I finally get to do things besides tills.

April 8th: my one month anniversary also was extra magic hours, I worked from 12:45pm to 12:30am, I also got asked by a fellow Canadian if I wanted to move in with her since she needed a new roommate and I was getting annoyed by mine. Magic hours was really boring there wasn’t really anyone in the park after 9 pm.

April 9th: I went into housing a few hours before work to see if I could move into my  fellow Canadians place and they said that because of the new arrive group on Tuesday if I wanted to move I would have to get everything moved on the 9th so I had 4 hours before work to get everything packed and moved my old place and the new place was on completely different sides of the complex, but I did get everything moved over so now I do not have to play “where’s the dishes” every night. I even got to work on time so it was a great day all around.

April 10th: (today) I finished unpacking and am going to work from 3pm to 9pm.

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Finally seen IllumiNations!!!

lets see:

April 3rd: I worked from 3:30 to 9:30, still didn’t get onto the engraver but I talked to my leader and they looked into why I haven’t been put on it so that by Wed. I will be on it. Other then that it was the same thing as normal.

April 4th: I was going to go to Animal Kingdom but my friend I was going to go with got ill so I instead I went to Walmart and bought some groceries and then baked some cupcakes. That night I went to games night with some Canadians and played some monopoly.

April 5th: I had the day off and went to Magic Kingdom with Joe, it rained when we first got there so we went on all the inside rides and then we went to boardwalk and ate at Kouzzina by Cat Cora, which was really good , we then went to EPCOT  and watched IllumiNations which I haven’t seen and I have been here for a month so I decided it was time to finally see it.

That is all, tomorrow I have a class called “Safety in Motion” which will teach me to open a box and to lift it. and then I have work until 9:30 and I really hope they get it worked out so that I finally get onto the engraver.

Cheers,

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3 days for update

Ok lets see:

March the 31st: I worked from 1pm to 9:30 will actually I was suppose to work until 9:30 but I got a Early Release (ER) instead so that meant that I only worked until 7:30. It rained all day Thursday and so we had the Canadian Merch Cart closed down so that meant that we had 5 people in the shop plus one who was a trainee and her trainer so we had 7 cast members in the shop and maybe 5 people in the shop at any given time, the trainee (Shelby) was doing all the transactions so that she was getting the hang of things so that left the rest of us with lots of time to kill, you can’t really stock if there’s no merch leaving the store. So we ended up playing the alphabet game, and moose toss and other random games like that. About 2 hours into the shift the phone rang and it was one of my managers asking if me and someone else wanted to go home, I said no but one of my other cast mates wanted to so her and one other went home and then at 6:30 they asked me again, I again said no but 2 others then went home, so that left me as the only one on rotation and then Shelby and Brendon (the trainer), my managers came up to me at 7:30 and this time said to just clock out Shelby and Brendon will close up, so I went home and had a good talk with my mom.

April 1st:  I worked 1 pm to 12:30 am, I worked magic hours with Brendon, there’s not really much to say about April 1st, I worked 11 hours and therefore got overtime. It was a nice day so we had a lot more people in the park.

April 2nd: I worked 1pm to 9:30 today, I was suppose to work 3:30 to 9:30 but someone asked me to switch shifts with her and I said sure why not. It was a busy day today and during one of my tasking times I was covering the cart register and Andrew who was at Engraver was helping out a lady and some one wanted a bracelet engraved so I jumped on the engraver and helped them out, it was the first time I used the engraver since the magic hours 2 weeks ago but I was really confident on it and Andrew saw that and said that he was going to put in a word with the managers tomorrow before I get in so that I can finally start picking up the engraver for a position instead of picking up cart register and whoever had cart register moves to engraver, picking up register doesn’t mean any more money or anything but it does mean doing something besides cash for a change.

will that’s it for now,

feel free to ask questions and make comments.

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