Thursday 11 September 2008

GOOOOOOD MORNIN' GOOD MORNIN'!!!

Today I was at the commons clubhouse. Here I went with a woman who worked out how much disney would pay for me to get home. I gave her my reciepts for my train and flight, and it worked out at around $690 which is REALLY good! We then had a talk with a special agents guy who told us about drinking and got all the under 21s to stand up... I stood up pretty fast as others kinda crawled out of their seats... I'm really not that bothered about it lol. We got told about us not drinking and we would be termed for it and all that stuff I already knew... They were just reminding us though.
Then the good people from "Partners," which is the disney bank for Cast Members, came in and gave us a little pressentation about banking with them. I decided to go with them as they seemed my best option. I made plans with the mexicans to go for wings tonight with Tracey and some other UKers. I have tomorrow off so I'm hoping to go to MGM and meet grandma there.
I will leave you with some photos from the past week or so... Have a magical day! :D


Welcome to our happy to be time!!!

So I had my first sit down kinda class today. We had a few talks about sercurity and stuff. The company that owns the cast member housing complexs are called Price Management. They seem really cool and I feel safe that no-one can really get into the housing without being signed in or having a CM ID... But they still told us to lock our stuff in our lockers just incase lol.
We then got the bus over to Vista Way, to get our ID cards... With a big f off "UNDER 21" on it! Nice :op lol. Everyone said my photo was a really good one... And I have to agree ha ha! I do look sexy on it! :op lol.
We then went to walmart with tino to get some food and shopping. I got cerial, milk, fruit, soup, fries, and a pizza... WOOO :op lol I had other stuff but I forget now ha ha. Oh I also got some ice pops and eggs and bacon that Casey asked me to get for her.
We got back... AND HAD TO CHUG ALL MY BAGS BACK TO MY APP! Damn! Jullian helped with mine so it wasn't that bad. I put all my stuff in my cupboards and fridge and then went to see Ashley (who lives at Traceys). I walked in and they had RENT all ready set up for me... Just lucky I guess ha ha! Then Casey called me and we all trecked up to mine to get her food, only to bring it all back to hers lol. Today was really fun. It's starting to feel more real now.

Tuesdays goooooone with the wind... bam bam bam bam dun dun dun dun duuuuun (that's the song from happy gilmour :op lol)

Well I moved in today. It was pretty cool. I am in appartment 2828 which is right over in the side they call the getto... I wanna move... lol but I wont be able to until 90 days or something. It's not THAT bad... The I4 goes right past my bedroom window... Ok maybes it is a little bad. I went to the premium outlets (Scuzz Mall) with Casey to get some food. And I met a very nice young lady I like to call... Well... Grandma I guess lol! Then we ate and went round the shops. I came back to the commons and went in the pool. I met tino, a friend who I've spoken to online for a while, he's cool, and Nathan who I havn't met before but he is class. We went to find Tracey but she told us the wrong app. number. I later found out that she is sharing with Ashley who I've spoken to from WDWIP and msn and that shiz. Then we went to Bennies. I had a humongous BBQ bacon burger with chips! It was nice.
I came home and we spotted Colin... Colin is a guy who I had my interview with. I said to Casey all Saturday and all today, "As soon as I see Colin... That's when it will start feeling real!" And now... It feels real! He dragged me to the UK Throw out and I got given a big snugly blanket thing... Which I am glad I did as it was cold that night :op and a welcome gift bag with a little teddy n stuff inside. I could clearly see that it was going to be REALLY hard for me to leave at the end of my programme! Then I said I would stop by at Caseys on my way back to my apartment so I did. I went back to my app. at 1... I got to sleep at half 3! FUCKIN' ROAD!!!


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Tell me why I really really really LOVE Mondays!!!

Because it means I have one day left until I move in with Disney :D yey lol. Today we got the I-ride trolley all the way down to publix which is just next door to the premium outlets... and that's next door to the commons. I got some cheesy sticks, and grandma got some hair condish. and some rice pudding type things. We then went to mc donalds. Next we came back to the hotel and went to the pool... Then some dobbers came along and jumped in... I turned to grandma and said, "You know how you wanted to see shamu? Well she's in the pool!" How rude of me... But it was funny. :op We came in and I watched friends. Grandma is asleep now. I'm not sure what we are doing tonight, but I might go crazy golfing! Oh which reminds me... Earlier on we went to check out how much it was to play crazy golf and we saw about 15 gators in the pond. They were only small but I wouldn't climb over the edge and swim with them :op lol. Talk to you when I've moved in tomorrow. Chow for now ;o)

That's walmart price!

Today I went to walmart to get a cell phone. I got a $15 one and a $15 phone card... Yes thats right... We buy phone cards still here... Well they probs have personal top up cards but I havn't heard of that yet. I have to ring customer services to activate my phone too. The good thing about the phone is that I can get on a plan where I can ring all other people with the same one, and it calls internationally. I plan to go to the hotel pool later on today and just chillax to the max!

Don't tell me ma, she'll only tell me pa, and then they'll take me telley out me room!

Ha ha a very good day today. So I got on the shuttle bus to universal studios today at 9:05am. I planned to meet Casey at 10:30... So as I got into city walk at around 9:30 I thought I'd pass some time by looking around the shops. After this I went to meet her only to find out that she had also been there since 9:30ish 8-) As if!!! :op
We got our anual passes from the islands of adventure kiosk, and then headed over to universal studios. We went on all the rides including the updated version of Earthquake which is now very funny :op and the simpsons ride which is also great. While we were at men in black Casey had put her bag... erm... I mean puuurse 8-) in a locker, we came back after the ride and the system was down so we had to wait 10 minutes or so. One of the guys working there gave us two express passes each to use on any of the rides at the two parks, so we used them for the simpsons and the hulk later on.
After doing most of the attractions at universal studios, we headed over to islands of adventure to do the hulk and spiderman. We then went to dueling dragons but saw that the queue was an hour so we decided against it. We went for some chow and then got a taxi to the i-trolley bus stop, and then headed tooooo... The commons baby!!! Well exciting that I was there. I really hope I get put in this complex because most of the people I've spoken to are there. I went to Caseys appartment and met her room mates, and I also used her laptop to check my facebook and send messages home.
Then some of her friends came and we went to get the minibus to cowboys. On the way to the minibus though Casey took me to a random appartment and said I'm taking you to see someone... I was like... Ok who? Lol and she wouldn't tell me. A girl answered the door. Casey asked for COLIN!!!!!!! I was well excited. This was the guy who I had my interview with. But alas, he had gone to Walmart or somewhere. I was well disapointed but I will still no doubt see him and everyone else on Tuesday. We headed to the minibus and went off to cowboys. Cowboys was Englands vision of a real american bar. It was a one price for unlimited beers thing. I didn't drink though... Obv! They had line dancing and a miss rocky mountains contest (I think they called it) I think you can all guess what that was about :o) Hello America!!!
Well tonight was fun. It was WELL different from going out back home. I guess I will get used to it but it's nice to go... Where everybody knows your naaaaa aa aaaame! lol.
I got dropped off at my hotel and went straight to bed.

AMEEEERICA!!! AMEEERICAAAAAAA...! AMERICA **** YEAAAAAH! HERE TO SAVE THE MOTHER ******* DAY YEAH! lol

I got here ok. It took us some time to find our hotel from the airport. We got two busses, but could have got one, but the transfer was free so it wasn't really a problem :op
I'm just about to go to subway!


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All my bags are packed and I'm ready to go

I am now at the airport in departures. We got through all the sercurity checks ok. Our gate hasn't been displayed yet so we are just watching the screens. The staff at Virgin were lovely... After watching airline and airport I had bad expectations. Both me and grandma have got ourselves free refils. Grandma has got a coffee and I've got a coke. I went to ask at the customer help desk about the T-Mobile Wifi hot spot here, but the young lady a the desk said she didn't have a clue... YOU ONLY WORK HERE!!! Ha ha. This has taught me a lesson which I am going to do at disney, to know everything that I can about everything. I heard that we get a little book saying what time shows, parades, and character greeting are for all the parks. I hope this is true because it would really help. And if I still don't know an answer to a question I can say to the guest, "I'm really sorry I don't know the answer to that question... But I can find someone who does. :D" Complete with The Disney GRIN! lol.
Anyways I'm going to get going and get some more coke. Grandma has just got back with a big bar of chocolate for us to share... YEY! :P
Catch ya before I go to sleep hopefully :D

I walk the line

As I can't get online on the train I'm going to write this up on word and then publish it when I can. So sorry if it's late.
Well I'm on the train to manchester airport. It's 6:17am. I've just said goodbye to mum, dad, Peter, and Nicholas. Grandma got the train wrong ticket, but found it in the end.
I think I'm too tired to feel sad about leaving home. I am going to miss it, but here begins a MAGICAL year :)