"It's a small world"

Yes,

we all know the song, the ride and the repetitiveness of this.... unique.... creation of music, but I happen to use the word a lot, why? because it's SO true.In this tiny world, we can find ourselves all connected through the grapevine in sometimes crazy cool situations, and sometimes really crazy "did this really just happen" situations.

here let me explain:

after receiving our awesome-super cool-fantastic-amazing-o.m.g. blue main gate cards to get into the parks, what do we do? we go to sleep, (YEA RIGHT) nooooo, we fly to the parks to hangout and celebrate our official cast member step to the Disney College Program in the parks! 

after making our way to Epcot, and Magic Kingdom for the night we found our selves getting extremely tired, sweaty, hungry, and did I mention sweaty? we NOW wait for the next and final destination bus towards home from downtown Disney...

while waiting, we saw birthday children walking by, guests, and cast members leaving for home.... and that's when it happened.... a tall manager walking by with a blue dress shirt, very professional and a football build walked up to our bus stop and I just about cried

Me- "NO WAY"

Manager- "Ethan!?" 

Me- *running towards him and jumping on him with the biggest bear hug ever*

Me- "NICK I CAN'T BELIVE THIS"

Nick-"*very professional* I missed you too Ethan!!"

Long story short, I found my old roommate from first program, Nick Downey. It's been 2 YEARS since I last saw him and what's he up to now? running a section of Downtown Disney since he graduated from school on a professional internship! 

not only do I have to congratulate this awesome guy, but what were the chances of me stumbling on my old roommate who was the "dad" of our apartment my first time around?? 

But it doesn't end there, within the first couple days of photo/park adventures, I found my self being followed by a green army man who knew me and Flynn Ryder personally and lastly I was able to give Marry Poppins a hug after not seeing her for a whole year! 

weirdest part about all of this? NONE of it was planned... I just stumbled upon all of them, and you know something? 

"It's a small world" & I'm definitely okay with this! ;)

Here's a few from the shenanigans of my Disney College Program thus far!! 

The Name Tag

After the Shenanigans of the first few days in our new apartment, we attempted to recover from all the dancing, lack of sleep and "comfy" beds (the beds are NOT COMFORTABLE) but it made me sit and realize that:

"we have to go out, hangout, eat, drive, swim, go on adventures, go grocery shopping, and enjoy each others company as much as we can before it all starts.....because when we all start working, some of us will have polar opposite schedules and from that point on it will be almost impossible for ALL of us to have the same time off together"

.......okay, okay, okay maybe I didn't memorize those lines, BUT I did repeat something similar to that all the time to everyone because it's true. All of us will have different schedules and with working at different parks, it's extremely hard to get everyone together again.

and with that being said, the day had arrived. 

The day EVERYONE waits for and the anticipation is finally met. 

Traditions

What is Traditions? Traditions is essentially the "Welcome to the Walt Disney Company" where you learn about the history, present day and future of the Company. Magic, pixie dust and eye opening realities are placed upon everyone to REALLY get everyone pumped for the next 5 months of "show".... or in the real world: work and lots of it.

But with all presentations and open armed welcomes, we are also given very special things that are essentially our "it's official" key to the next five months. 

our name tag 

Something so simple, can make a huge impact on someone because its that name tag that separates majority of us from the rest of the world, because not everyone has this name tag. It's a symbol of being "official" at creating magic for a company, but with great power always comes great responsibility. 

and its NOW time for all of us to take responsibility in having FUN for the next five months...... 

Disney Style

100th post and a new start

I REALLY need to get this daily blogging thing rolling. I have approximately 3 weeks now till I head out on the open road to florida and I have done zero preparation for this journey..... except download music and work..... my excuse is that I have summer school, but this is the last week of that so its now crunch time.

Caught up in the moment I finally got to hang out with michelle, not just once but TWICE AND got to hang out with Mr. Brian walsh and (as michelle calls him) "Nicky" for the first time outside of auditions for entertainment!

With all that being said, I was able to have two photo adventures with my camera. from the beach, navy pier and fireworks, to weird "small world" situations, and frozen yogurt we had a blast, but it was sadly the end of a journey with my best friend (before anyone freaks out, its my camera) my Nikon D7000.

Caught up in time, and tough decisions, and ideas that would pertain to my future career, I made a HUGE decision in my path, my journey and with that being said I had two final photo adventures with a friend who showed me a "whole new world" through a piece of glass and a little creativity.

But when one door closes, another one opens and I've been looking for this opened door for a long time now, and I finally feel as though I made the choice I've been wanting to for a long time, but until tomorrow, here's a few from the last adventure with an old friend.