getting sick sucks.

I ended up going home sick two days ago during work and calling in sick yesterday, but today i feel much better. My fridays have now changed to monday since im going to have tuesday and wednesday off every week. So far im getting along with most of my roommates, but some of them are a little more lazy when it comes to cleaning so that can be frustrating at times. Overall, I'm have a great time!

the florida mall, etc.

Yesterday and today were my first days off after working 7 days straight. Yesterday I went to the Florida mall, and today I managed to go to all 4 theme parks for a little while at least. I'm starting to like my job more and more, I just dont like the location as much. For Custodial they split the magic kingdom into the west, east, and south. The west is Frontierland, adventureland. The south is just main street, and the east is tomorrowland and fantasyland. I work in the south right now, but i would really like to move to the east, I know a few people over there and it just seems like a more fun place to work. We'll see what happens!

im all alone. kind of.

Today is my first day by myself at the Magic Kingdom. So far im not too nervous about it because there are so many people i can go to to ask questions. I didnt really like the guy that actually trained me, but after the two "official training" days, other people really helped me out. Like you said, the slightly overworked feeling is starting to kick in...kind of. Its not that the work is hard, just that during the training days they give you way more time to do stuff than is actually needed so it makes the days seem much longer. Tuesdays and Wednesdays are my days off, and I cant wait! I'm not sure exactly what ill be doing today ( we find out when we get there), but im sure it will be fun. There really isn't that much cleaning involved since there are so many of us.

more training.

  Today marked my third day of training for Custodial. My first class was called Custodial Core, held at Disney University. The first half of this class was an intro to all the chemicals and what to do if we find blood. After going to lunch at Magic Kingdom, we went back to the university and did elearning. That is probably the most tedious thing i have done since we have been here. The next day, yesterday, my class was called "once upon a time...is now". Basically just an orientation class, all the CPs working in MK were in one big group. They shared trivia and little things with us like the design of the buildings on main street. About half way through the day we split off into our respective roles.‎ Our trainer (his name was Ryan) was really cool and he showed us the show and courtesy aspects of custodial. We got to ride the people mover in tomorrowland as well as Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion throughout the day. Today the class was called "Be our Guest", and it was my first class that wasnt at the university. Our trainers name was Preston, and i personally liked yesterdays class better. It wasnt because of the trainer, just that this class was a lot of standing. All of us Custodial CP's are in different Zones of the park (East, West, and South) Im in the south. Anyway, we pretty much spent the day looking at the AVAC, break rooms, supply closets and meeting locations for each zone. That in itself took forever. The last part was spent elearning again, and i think i might have fallen asleep. Tomorrow I begin my first On the job training.

training and exploring.

Yesterday was my first training class, custodial core. The beginning seemed like stuff that anybody would know, like how to mop. We learned different code words etc. We went to lunch at Magic Kingdom, which was fun and we got paid for the hour lunch. After lunch we had to do some online training and got to leave afterwards. So far since living here ive been to magic kingdom and epcot (ive been to all of the parks before, multiple times). Today i think im going to Animal Kingdom with Melissa Grimm. Im adjusting to living on my own pretty well, so far so good.

First getting here.

 Check-in was yesterday and it went a lot better than i had read about. We arrived at Vista Way around 7:00am because i read somewhere to do that. We were probably the 10th people in line so the entire process went really fast. We had the housing meeting the same day so that was nice to get it all done in one day. Were staying in a chatham 3 bedroom. Today i got all of my stuff in the apartment. We have 3 roomates from puerto rico, one from Illinois and Joe Decious and I. So far I really like it here!

Welcome

I decided to create a blog becasue I'm living in Orlando working at Disney World! I want to remember everything that is happening these next few months so im going to try to document as much as I can. Todays is my check in day and basically they herd you around like cows throwing paper at you. Except its much more glamorous haha. It really wasnt all that bad. Im working in the Magic Kingdom park on Main Street! That is so cool! Right now my friend Tanya is here but shes leaving in the next few days and im really going to miss her because I have this gut feeling that things arent going to be the same when I get back. (They already arent...everything on the blog before 2/16/11 actually happened, Im just writing about it from memory on 2/16 (the day I created the blog) and pre-dating everything) Anyway I guess were both just busy...