Just so you know

Hi people. You may have noticed myblog is no longer open to everyone. This is because as Youknow I have a special role at disney world that we want to preserve the integrity and secrecy of. So from now on, this blog is invite only. i will still be telling you about my experience, it will just only be immediate friends and family as well as other disney cast members. I havent updated in a couple of days, new posts will be up shortly. For now, I passed my audition, started training on Friday, and Training days one and two were awesome. I also went to the magic kingdom twice, once for the Pirate and Princess party. And, tomorow I will be "on set" for the first time, doing 5 20 minute sets of minnie mouse in epcot. Very Exciting. More news and info coming soon. Love yous!

WELCOME TO WALT DISNEY ENTERTAINMENT

Eek! Today started off lazy, lounging around til about 3 then heading to the Clubhouse to be picked up by a white van. Since I was being picked up at 3:00, I was reluctant to do anything in the morning for fear of not getting back in time. So I stayed pretty close to home most of the day, and then headed over to the pavillion at about 5 minutes to 3. On the way down the stairs out of my apartment, I twisted my ankle, then got worried about the time so promptly forgot that my ankle hurt and ran the rest of the way. The pavillion was deserted, which worried me, so I pulled out the flyer about the audition and realizd I was supposed to be at the clubhouse (which is right next to my apartment...). So I ran again, and met up with Sabina, a girl from my traditions class who was also auditioning. At about 3, a white van pulled up in front of us, and Robert, an Entertainment cast member greeted us. We got into the van and met David from Mexico. On the way to the audition, we picked Roberts brain for info on entertainment, costumes, and of course, the particulars of the audition.
Finally we arrived at the Disney's Animal Kingdom Wardrobe building, which is where they store the 'costumes' (uniforms) formost jobs in that park.It is not walking distance from DAK like the wardrobes of the other parks are, and it also has a huge rehearsal facility in it used for auditions. Us three international students got a bit of special treatment from the very beginning of the audition process. Robert escorted us everywhere and pretty much did all our talking for us. While the hundred or so other people responding to the open call were given numbers, the three of us were given letters (I was A), affectionately called the alphabet kids, and wer the first to do each section of the audition.
We arrived to see people lined up in a huge room, being assigned numbers. The audition didnt start for almost half an hour, but we had some paperwork to pass the time. They did the audition in halves, with the alphabet kids and 50 others going first. The first half of the audition was an easy dance routine. It was only two counts of eight, and not complicated at all. We learnt it as a group then did it across the floor in groups of three (guess who the first group was???). Then we were ushered back into the holding area while the second group went through the same thing. While in the holding area, the entertainment people began calling names. About half our group was sent home without completing the audition. When the other group was finished, more names were called to go home, then the remainder of us were split into two groups- most of us, myself included went to an animation workshop... about 10 were sent to a dance intensive workshop.
The animation workshop wastough. We learnt a bit about how to make costumes alive and meaningful, and then they play 1 minute and 55 seconds of speedy cartoon music and told us we were late for something and to get ready quickly. we repeated this several times before doing it for the panel in groups of 6. It was exhausting, we were really moving and bouncingand being full of energy.It was fun though. So then A,B and C exited the audition hall and waited in a little breakroom. We all passed the audition!! They gave us the news and then told us our schedule for the coming 5 days of entertainment training. We then went home.

There was a pool party thursday night in my apartment complex and I went for a bit, but I was so physically and mentally exhausted from the audition that I didnt stay long. Early bed for me-- I thought. But as Iwas getting ready for bed, Kristal from the CRP called and then I called angie and we all chilled for a while, then I realized I had no dress pant for my training, so angie and I made a late night walmart run. Ifinally went to bed, not quite as early as I'd hoped :)

When you wish...

Wednesday:

Ok, so Wednesday morning we all woke up confused in Apt 2402's living room...I remember closing my laptop and asking who wanted to walk me half way home cuz i'm a chicken, and then I guess we all just fell asleep. We were exhausted, it's been a busy couple of days, and yesterday, Wednesday, got even busier.

After waking up, i went back to my apt and got ready for traditions, which has quite a strict dress code. I showered and talked to my mum on the phone, then headed back to apt 2402 for pancakes. I ended up having toast with nutella (don't know why) and then once all of us were dressed we had a little photo shoot.

We then walked to the bus stop and again waited forever-- The regualar, scheduled busses come really regularly,but the buses we have been taken are special, just for icp people and they are always late.

When we got on the bus, we sat at the very front and on the dashboard was a shoe. This made us laugh. Just one, girly shoe, obviously forgotten.

So we took the bus to Disney University, which is behind the Magic Kingdom and is Cast Members Only :) The building is so cool on the inside, with tons of pics and screeshots and disney memorabilia. My classroom was themed "you've got a friend in me" and was very cute.

For those who dont know, Traditions is the First Official Day of Work for new cast members. It is the passing down of the disney culture, traditions, and ways of doing things to the next generation of staff. we learnt the disney point and the disney scoop, Disney-ese, and tons of other stuff in this 4 hour session. It was really cute. Every time we participated we got a "criitter" whish is basically a little disney character figurine. I got Mickey, Pluto and Daisy :) Gemma, Giulianna, and I were in the same class, at the same table, along with Nicole from Newfoundland and Sabina from England-- Sabina is also a character performer, so that is exciting that I've finally met another one. So ya, traditions was cool, long, and emotional. When they played a couple of the movies about making dreams come true and such, half of us ended up bawling... But then it was over and we left Disney U, rushed back to Vista Way, changed ate, and headed to Magic Kingdom.

We decided to go in on the monorail to give sam, who has never been before, the full effect of walking down main street. It was awesome to go through the cast members only entrance on the side of the turnstiles. We got into MK late, about 7:30 ish, and guests were already sitting along the parade route, which we really wanted to see, but the parade wasnt til 9 so we decided to do a couple of attractions and then hope we found a spot to watch. we got lucky, walking right into Philharmagic, It's a small World, and Haunted Mansion. It was really cool to see the changes that have been done to Haunted Mansion! I was really impressed :)

We sat to watch the parade right in front of the haunted mansion, with a family from missouri who were very friendly. Spectro magic was terrific as always, and so was Wishes, the fireworks, which we watched from in front of the castle. We all cried a bit then too, and had a group hug. We just cant believe we're here. So then, we exited the park and went home, but not in the usual way-- we went into the cast member tunnels under the magic kingdom. All I can say is they were very cool. We took the bus from the end of the tunnel to the westclock, the main bus stop for cast members, then waited for ever for a bus back to vistaway.

By the time we got home we were exhausted, but very happy and impressed.

Summary:
Woke up at apt 2402 on couch
talked to mom on phone
pancakes/toast
got ready for traditions
late bus
lost shoe
traditions
critters
disney u
crying
rushed to mk
mk
philharmagic, small world, haunted mansion
chatting with ppl b4 parade
spectromagic
wishes
tunnels
west clock
long wait for bus (!!)
tired
bed now, fill in details tommorrow (I dont have my audition til 3:00, so i promise I'll put it up b4 then)




Plan for the next few days:
Thursday: Audition, Trip to the Studios (maybe), Pool party.
Friday: Dont know my work schedule yet, then seeing the Sex and the City movie at Downtown Disney, then going to a get together at Chatham.

Dictionary of Differences

Today was good :) Started out a little rocky with the bus to our orientation being super late, but after that it was pretty smooth. Orientation this morning was boring, they talked to us about banking with the Disney bank, Partners, and what we can and cant do with our work visa (to prevent deportataion). That presentation was pretty cool, themed to Toy Story with us as the Aliens... haha. And then we had lots of paperwork-- Interrupted by falling asleep on apt 2402's (angelica, sam, giuli, gemma's apt) couch.

It's now thursday, but I'm gunna try to expand this entry...

Tuesday:

The paper work at our morning orientation was mostly to do with homeland security and our status in the country. We then had a presentation by Partners! The bank exclusively for disney cast members and their families. After that, we got back on another late bus, and headed back to vista way for a little break. At 2 ish we had another session, this one was here at the Vista Way clubhouse, and was one of the walk around and go to certain stations. At this session, most people found out their placements-- Angelica is a custodian at The Studios, Giuli is Food and Beverage at the Grand Floridian Resort, Sam is a Lifegaurd at Pop Century resort, Gemma is Food and Bev on Main Street of the Magic Kingdom, Alex is Lifegaurding at The Beach Club resort, Fanny is F&B at All Stars Resort ... and thats all I can think of off the top of my head... Me though, i just found out, again, that I have an audition thursday afternoon. Most people start their training on thursday, but apparently i start at 6:15 am friday morning... or thats the rumor anyways.
So after we got our assignments, we got out main gate passes, the little card that lets us let up to three people into the park on 6 days. Then we walked from the clubhouse to building 26 to have a class on filling out the tax form and we signed our life away in the form of confidentiality agreements and release of idea forms, which basically means that any ideas, suggestions or thoughts we say at work belong to the disney company :P.

So then we went back to the apartment, and waited for angelica to come home so we could go to Walmart. And waited. And started the Distionary of Differences, for all the words and phrases we say that are different from each other. And waited. And thought, this isnt like her, but we didnt have a way to contact her, so eventually we just left, leaving her a note to call us when she got in.

We took the bus to Walmart, chatting with this guy from Haiti, which was cool, and right after we got inside the supercentre, we got a call from angie- poor girl had gotten lost on the way back from visiting her parents and ended up on the turnpike to tampa bay, then the security people at our complex wouldnt let her park the car they had previous said she could park for the week. Needless to say she was upset. eventually she got through, but the 10 minute trip home had taken almost 2 hours. So she didnt come to walmart, and we bought cookie dough to make her feel better, and the blouse she needed for traditions.

We somehow managed to spend 3 hours in walmart, i got shoes for my audition, a mattress cover, some food, an alarm clock... and we decided to make a big dinner, the girls from the uk wanted us to try curry so we had curry chicken and rice. They were shocked that we had never had indian food before, and even more surprised at how small the oriental foods section of walmart was. They were so cute when they got to the english food section, i thought they would buy everything they liked the taste of home.

By the time we got home (in a taxi, we just missed the bus which is probably a good thing, getting all our junk onto the bus would have been hard...) it was 9 o clock, by the time we had dinner and made cookies it was even later. So we went for a swim and chatted a lot, and then I started this blog entry and apparently, at about 3 in the morning, we all fell asleep in the living room-- cuz we all woke up there the next morning. Me on the couch, cam on the floor, giuli on the armchair-- Ang and Gemma were smart enough to actually go to their beds...



Summary:
Orientation: Visa Info, Forms, Banking, work locations, tax forms, main gate passes, class thing in building 26

angelica gets lost, trip to walmart for three hours (!!) Chatting with ppl on the bus, missed bus, taxi, curry dinner, burnt cookies, chatting, swim, chatting, attempt at blogging, sleep.

Cockroaches and Elevators

Ok, so i've missed some stuff out of my last couple of entries, so this is an add in:

Elevators: On the way out of my nana's apt on sunday, we got stuck between floors because they shut down the elevators when an alarm went off. Needless to say, I kinda freaked and was sure I was gunna miss my flight :)

Cockroaches: So I saw a cockroach for the first time last night, not in my apartment thank goodness but we all kinda freaked and stood on chairs spraying it with lysol... were real girly girls apparently...

Vista Way: I never gave a real description of where I am living. Vista Way is an apartment complex that houses approx 2500 student workers- international and american. It's one of 4 similar complexes that altogether house some 9000 students. There are little buildings in a village sort of thing, with 6 apts in each building. I live on the third floor of my building, which is nice because our cieling goes up into a point, much higher than the other floors, and we have an extra semi-circle window on top of our picture window in the living room. I still haven't posted the video i made of our apt, but it'll be up here soon. We have three bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a big kitchen, living room, and it is all really spacious. My apt is right beside the pool and volleyball court, beside the clubhouse and not far from the bus stop. The busses run constantly and are coach busses exclusively for the use of cast members living in the complexes. The pool and hot tub are really nice, and weve already gone swimming 3 or 4 times.

Disney Delirium

First full day and it was great. I'm exhausted, but i don't wanna forget anything so this'll be a bit of a quick and dirty post with just the facts-- unless i get distracted and start putting more detail in it, which i probably will...

I woke up pretty early this morning, especially considering the time I went to bed at last night. When I opened my eyes I was instantly fully awake, which is so wierd for me. Anyways, I got up just about right away and chatted with people on facebook and msn for a bit, and ate breakfast with my roomies and finally really met and got to know them all a little better. There is Fanny, my roomie from Hong Kong who will be a quick service food and beverage server, Alexandra the lifeguard from Quebec City, Patricia from Mexico, who I think is doing housekeeping, and Sara from England and i cant think what her role is... I've met so many people it is hard to keep it straight. So after breakfast and a shower I went over to Angelica's apartment, which right now I'm still way more bonded with than my own, which I think is fine. My apartment is really organized with our cleaning schedule and good talks about what we need for the common areas in terms of shared stuff and responsibilities, and we all chat with each other, but all of us kinda split up during the day because we all have other people we know and are hanging out with. It actually is a good dynamic because you are way likely to fight with someone that you are not best friends with. Apt 2402, on the other hand, I've clicked with most of them completely and pretty instantly. There is Angelica from Canada who will be a custodian, Giuliana from Canada who is a quick service food and beverage server, Gemma from Wales who is merchandise (i think... I might be wrong there...) Samantha from Liverpool, England who is a Lifeguard, and then two Jennifers from hong kong who haven't really spoken much to the rest of us, but seem nice. It is mostly the five of us-- Gemma, Angie, Sam, Giuli and myself-- who have really spent a lot of time chatting and joking, I feel like I've known all of them for ages.
I think one of the things happening is language barrier divisions. Though everyone speaks a little english, it is way easier to find similar humour when the language is the same-- although with the accents and slang sam and gemma use, sometimes we might as well be speaking different languages. I've learnt lots of new words, some fun curse words and helped clear confusion about crisps and chips and how they are different :)
The way the five of us get along hasnt taken anything away from the dynamic atmosphere of living with people from all over. It really struck me in the shower this morning as i looked at everyones toiletries on their little shelves-- spanish, chinese, french and english were all there. It was really neat. Right now, Fanny is showing Patty places in Asia on google and patty just finished showing mexico. English is neither of their first languages, but both are speaking it. I admire people who emmerse themselves completely into a different culture the way people on these international programs have. Even the europeans like gemma and sam are faced with big differences, it would be crazy to be in a foreign country with only a basic knowledge of the language.
Anyways, tangent over, back to this morning. for orientation we have been divided into groups and we have different timeslots for different things. It's really well organized, with 300 people getting loads of paper work done really quickly and without ever really standing in line. So Angelica's was early, like 8:45 am, so around 9:30 i headed over to her place, she was done the first part of her orientation, which was just a bunch of forms and such, but the people at the border hadnt given back one form that she had to have, so that was a bit of an issue but its all solved now. So then gemma and I headed over to the welcome pavillion for our allotted time of 10:15. There was music playing outside, and a guy asking trivia questions periodically (really easy movie trivia, I got a photo album with the international programs logo on it for answering the question "where does Mufasa's family live in the Lion King" (Pride Rock). ) we gradually snaked around the room filling out various forms and getting our id photo taken for access to the apt complexes and going through the disney look book procedures and having our medical insurance checked and our visa status confirmed by immigration people. There were enough people helping at each station that once you finished one station you could go directly to the next with no wait. All the Cast Members helping us with the costume read addressed us by name (we were wearing nametags, but still) and asked us how we were doing and everything right away, it was nice.

So all that took a little under an hour, but I think if it was any other company attempting to get that much stuff accomplished for that many people we would have been there for hours and hours standing in long lines. So then I went back to my apartment and ate lunch and visited again with myapartment mates, then went against my schedule (gasp!) and went to an earlier housing welcome session at the commons than I was supposed to. Since we wanted time for a swim and to go to Downtown Disney, it didnt make sense to wait around doing nothing while waiting for our session to start-- the 5 of us were all scheduled to take a 1:15 bus to the commons for a 3:00 presentation, but instead we took a 12:15 bus for a 12:30 presentation and were out of there by 3 with way less waiting around. The housing welcome session was a presentation from Price Management, the people that oversee our housing, and disney about rules and protocols and special events and such. It was long but sometimes slightly amusing.unfortunately, they had it set up that we needed to pick up some documents organized by name after the presentation, and since we werent technically in the group, ours werent ready yet, so we went home for a swim for an hour or so then caught a 4 oclock bus back to the commons, and picked up those papers. Part of my paperwork was the notice that my audition will be thursday afternoon at 3:00 :) I'm excited! Most people will be finding out their work locations tomorrow and meeting with their trainers-- not sure how that works for me but i'm sure they have something planned, since it is on my itinerary to do that as well. After getting that stuff, we went straight from there to downtown disney.

Sam has never been to america before, or to disney anything before (she was a disney virgin!) so she was entranced by downtown disney (cant wait for her to see magic kingdom or any of the parks, she was so impressed!).

I definately finally felt like I was in Disney World when I got off the bus and saw all the kids with ears on :) In one of the stores we all put on ears and took a pic of ourselves (its not on my camera or it would be on here) we figure when we "graduate" at the end of our program, and they give us the graduation ears well take the same picture, which will be cute.

So ya, we did the marketplace section of downton disney and decided that we're gunna go to Planet Hollywood and to see cirque de soliel on my birthday, which is a month today (well, now we're past midnight so I gues yesterday), because a special discount for cast members to see cirque for $40 which is 50% off, ends two days later, plus its my birthday and I want it to be a fun night.

Then we were hungry, and since we were all a little dressed up we didnt want fast food, so we decided to check out the Rainforest Cafe. The wait was over an hour, but as were discussing whether wed wait or not a guy came out and asked rather quietly to the back of the line if any of us were parties of 6. We said, no were a party of 5 and he said wanna sit now in the bar area or wait an hour, and then he seated us right away! (now thats disney magic) so we waited literally less than 30 seconds!

I'd never been to a rainforest cafe before, and it is def my new fave restaurant! It's all setup with animals and toadstools and such-- I have a video of it that i'll put here in the next couple of days, i just havent had time to put them on here yet. The bar is under a mushroom thing with water dripping off the edges-- it's hard to describe but really cool, and periodically the sky gets darks and it storms a bit, then there is a rainbow... too cool! The food was good too.

So we shopped a bit more, bought mystery bags at the mickey mart and were way to excited about opening them (we got binoculars, playingcards, a ratatouille watch, and some other stuff) and pressed some souvenir pennies, which i've kinda decided to collect while i'm here. An then we headed home, (we were directed to the bus stop by a security guard named mickey. We decided that maybe people named after characters should get paid more, because it is entertaining to guests) and had another swim in the pool and the hot tub. Then we chatted a bit and seperated for the night.

So that was pretty detailed, it's taken me an hour and a half to write, and I am going to sleep like a rock tonight, i'm falling asleep in this very uncomfy chair. g'nite!

p.s

p.s-- have photos and video, will post tommorrow

Here at last!

Wow, today was awesome. I love it here, so far. Obviously nothing has really started, but it was a really good day.

I spent last night at my nana's house, en route to Buffalo where I caught my flight. We left at around 11:00 am on our way to the border (this is wierd-- it is 3 am-ish the next morning but it kinda feels like its been weeks since then!) and then crossed the border at about noon. It was a long hot drive and I felt a bit nauseous the whole way through, though whether it was car sickness or nerves I don't know. The border wait was long, though we chatted between the cars with a family originally from St. Lucia, which was kinda cool, and then I had to go inside the customs office to get my paperwork done up and that was a bit time consuming as well. Once that was all done, we weren't far at all from the Buffalo Niagara International Airport. I checked in there at about 1:20, (and as I left the check in counter ran into ellen, a girl who was at my interview in toronto months ago. I recognized her and also noticed she was carrying the disney congratulations package, which I had just finished putting back into my packsack) and went though security really quickly, no lines at all. I said good bye to my momma and Jordie and went to wait in gate 14. There was a plug in for my lap top, so I watched some episodes of the Office and Heroes and ate a salad. My plane was about 15 minutes delayed, which wasn't really a big deal, but it made the wait that little bit longer. The plane was smallish, or smaller than I remember my last planeride to be, but that was four years ago so maybe the plane was normal sized, i dunno. I was seated in row 28, which was just behind the wing and just in front of the engine/propeller/big round thing that makes a lot of noise. It wasn't too bad, but it bugged me a bit. Nobody sat beside me, which was nice because the armrests can go up so I put my feet on that seat. The take off was kinda funny-- a little girl in front of me screamed as the plane went up and her mother quickly shushed her and the girl, who was only about three said "that was fun. Was that a rollercoaster?" it was too cute. No movie on this plane, but the trip went quickly, mostly because I was a bit of a nervous flyer so I just stared blankly out the window making sure we weren't dropping out of the sky-- as if my peering out the window could stop us if we were... There was radio in our armrests, so I listened to Radio Disney the whole way there to get me in the spirit of things. We spant a good portion of the flight along the coast, and being on the left side of the plane that meant I could see no land at all. It was a pretty sunny and clear day, with almost no clouds at all the whole trip. Finally we landed in Orlando.

I got off the plane and walked through the gate to a monorail/train type thing to the main terminal (very cool) and then made my way down to shuttle to my apartment. My shuttle also had a lady on it from Georgia and her two sons who were going to stay at a hotel closeby, and we got chatting, they were very excited that I was a Disney Cast Member. Also in my bus was a guy from Glasgow, Scotland who was also on ICP, which was kinda neat.

We arrived a Vista Way, one of the disney apartment complexes and the central welcoming spot for the 300 arriving international college program participants. I had thought it was amuch smaller program than it is-- I was thinking like 40 people would be arriving today... I was WAY off. The door of our shuttle was opened by a cast member who welcomed us and told us, "you're home now". I was very excited. They had quite the system for dealing with arrivals, they were well prepared for the influx of people, with places to put our luggage before we headed into what was essentially a three stage presentation which kept us rotating and kept the amount of standing around to a minimum. We picked the name to appear on our nametags, then moved into the pavillion to see a short 3 minute video talking about the security in the complex, then recieved welcome packages and some freebie things, and a book with all the merchants in the orlando area that give discounts to CMs. We also recieved our housing location and key. The ICPs are spread through the 4 apt complexes, but I'm in the Vista Way complex (i was so happy I didn't have to travel to another spot, the welcome center is at Vista.) I met up with Angelica, whi had already checked in hours earlier, and she helped my walk my stuff to my complex. I liveon the third (top) floor of my building, and it is very cute. I haven't really gotten to know my roommates yet, and don't actually remember all there names. I dumped my suitcases on my bed and asked my room mates (there are 5 plus me in my apartment, I share a room with a girl named Fanny (i'm not sure if that is spelt right) from Hong Kong. if they had already been to Walmart. They head, so I immediatly went with Angelica, who, lucky girl, has a car this week whil her parents are in town. Lucky me, too, cuz I didn't have to take a bus with all the stuff I needed. (including tinkerbell sheets :) )

We didn't get back from walmart til almost 10:30, and because of the time changes most of my apartment mates were asleep or headed to bed. I unpacked and set up all my stuff, ate some KD and then, since my apartment was asleep, headed to angelica's, which is a 2 second walk from mine (just across a volleyball court). Turns out Giuliana, who I danced with in Ottawa, is also in Angelica's apt, and we hung out and chatted along with Sam from Nottingham, England and Gemma from Wales for a couple of hours-- as in til about 3 am. It was awesome, I feel like we really clicked-- which is good and bad- I know I'll click with my apartment mates too, but I haven't even met them all and I've really bonded with this other apt. Maybe our 2 apts can just kinda totally connect, I guess we'll see.

So now I am sitting in my very quiet apartment's living room typing this up. I'm exhausted, but not sleepy...

Tommorow I have to attend an orientation at 10:15 am, which will be a housing check in, then I have a break at 11, then at 1:15 I have a welcome session at Chatham Square.

Tuesday we have a presentation from the Disney bank and some other stuff in the morning, then it looks like, from the schedule, we'll recieve the info on our actual job training.

Wednesday is our traditions class!!!! which will be cool.


Anyways, I'm gunna go try to sleep. I still can't believe I'm here :)

Next Stop: Orlando, Florida!

Only 1 day, 16 hours and 12 minutes til my plane hits the runway... and this is officially my last post before I leave.

I've been a little lacking in the whole blogging thing-- I haven't been putting up all of the very cute little emails I've been getting from the Disney team, nor did I make an entry when I received a very cute congratulations package with my work visa form and the disney look book. If you're my family or friends, you probably don't care about the ommission, if you are applying for this job and looking for info on this stage, other blogs go in depth into it-- there really not much to it, some paperwork, some fees and some photocopies and you're set to go.

I've spent this last month at home, for the most part, and visiting with various family and friends. A trip to Toronto, another to Rochester, and a surprise Birthday/Going Away party complete with a tinkerbell balloon and a Minnie Mouse-esque purse topped off the month. It was good to see people, but honestly, this last 20 days has been impossibly slow! I'm so excited to get there, I have this strange feeling that the last 5 months have been spent in anticipation, like I kinda glossed through them to get to this point where I'm off to Orlando.

These next weeks I plan to update this blog a lot, keeping track of everything. There arent really any character blogs out there, so there are a lot of exciting unknowns for me going into this. All of it will be made clear to me in the next weeks, and to you through this blog.

I have to be up in less than 5 hours to do my little sisters hair and make-up for dance competition, so i'm gunna wrap it up here-- tomorrow I'll be leaving Ottawa at 2 oclock ish and heading for Stoney Creek, Ontario, to spent the night at my Nana's apartment. Sunday morning I'll cross the border into Buffalo, NY and Sunday afternoon I'll get on a plane. Sunday by 6 oclock I should be in Orlando. I can't wait!

Talk to you then!

Disney Steffie :)