So I realize I have been the worst at posting these past few months. And guess what the program is over with...thankfully
It was a great experience and I would definitely tell others to try it out for themselves. I was lucky mostly because of the great roommates that I was placed with and my job was one of the best on location. Near the end though I kinda got sick of people and dealing with simple problems and the feeling of uselessness and the constant indulgence with little work accomplishments that I really need...the useless hours...the bottom of the totem pole...the stickler managers....the unreliable bus system... the lack of spiritual highs... stupid people...late nights...early mornings... slave labor... under-appreciated...terrible costumes... hot humid weather... you get my point, I was done.
It is true I wont be able to go the parks anytime soon and the food I will definitely miss and my amazing friends, but I am ready for the next adventure in my life. Whatever that will be, I am thinking China.
Well, Have a magical life.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
June 5th
Don't worry, I haven't totally forsaken this blog. I've been distracted for some time now and can you blame me?
I guess the main thing I want to report on was that I finally got together with the designer that I have been trying to get a hold of for about six months. They took me around the department showing me what they do for their jobs and how much fun it is. It was amazing and it really got me pumped when each described a project. After the walk through I got to ask them a few questions and mainly what I got out of that is they each came from a different field except one designer. One majored in journalism while another studied some science stuff. It just means that you never know where life will lead you and I need to stop stressing over whether I will do well or do what is expected of me rather just accept where I need to be in life and what I need to be doing.
I'm getting deployed a ton too. I think I've only worked a total of five days at my normal location. They keep sending me over to another resort. Of course these resorts are Fort Wilderness and the All Star Resorts. I don't mind that much I am kinda getting use to the changing. I just miss my location.
I've only got a few months left here and I'm going to miss it naturally but at the same time this place is indulge yourself central. It is so difficult to actually save up your money here and there is so many things to distract you from actually getting real work done. That and I miss going to church, having a calling, and going to all the activities. I feel so lost here, I still read and pray and go to church but it is something so big in my life and I feel like it has been ripped out of me but I only have a few months like I said.
Well I got to go to work, and I will go to church in the evenings. Hope everyone is doing well.
I guess the main thing I want to report on was that I finally got together with the designer that I have been trying to get a hold of for about six months. They took me around the department showing me what they do for their jobs and how much fun it is. It was amazing and it really got me pumped when each described a project. After the walk through I got to ask them a few questions and mainly what I got out of that is they each came from a different field except one designer. One majored in journalism while another studied some science stuff. It just means that you never know where life will lead you and I need to stop stressing over whether I will do well or do what is expected of me rather just accept where I need to be in life and what I need to be doing.
I'm getting deployed a ton too. I think I've only worked a total of five days at my normal location. They keep sending me over to another resort. Of course these resorts are Fort Wilderness and the All Star Resorts. I don't mind that much I am kinda getting use to the changing. I just miss my location.
I've only got a few months left here and I'm going to miss it naturally but at the same time this place is indulge yourself central. It is so difficult to actually save up your money here and there is so many things to distract you from actually getting real work done. That and I miss going to church, having a calling, and going to all the activities. I feel so lost here, I still read and pray and go to church but it is something so big in my life and I feel like it has been ripped out of me but I only have a few months like I said.
Well I got to go to work, and I will go to church in the evenings. Hope everyone is doing well.
Monday, May 9, 2011
May 8
I got deployed to another resort which means the other resort is short handed so the big man who decides our fate within the business reassigned me to work in the All star Resort. Only for a week, but I have heard horror stories about this location. I will survive, and do it with a smile.
Anyways the main reason I am writing (breaking my streak of laziness) is that last night I was at this resort and a guest came up with a ton of merchandise. Which is fine but it cost around $345, that is a ton of money! And the lady handed me $400 in real cash money. As I was doing this transaction I realized that it was the most amount of money I have ever held in my hand. Crazy, I feel so poor right now and at the same time I realized that the four hundred is the same amount of money I make in a month. Some lady just dropped it on stupid figurines and pens. How can anyone justify spending that much money on useless junk?
Life is getting crazy and I don't know where I am going with it. All I know right now is that I at the moment have to go catch a bus. So bye.... I will write more later
Anyways the main reason I am writing (breaking my streak of laziness) is that last night I was at this resort and a guest came up with a ton of merchandise. Which is fine but it cost around $345, that is a ton of money! And the lady handed me $400 in real cash money. As I was doing this transaction I realized that it was the most amount of money I have ever held in my hand. Crazy, I feel so poor right now and at the same time I realized that the four hundred is the same amount of money I make in a month. Some lady just dropped it on stupid figurines and pens. How can anyone justify spending that much money on useless junk?
Life is getting crazy and I don't know where I am going with it. All I know right now is that I at the moment have to go catch a bus. So bye.... I will write more later
Saturday, April 23, 2011
April 24th
Happy Easter everyone,
Guess what I am going to do, that is right! Go to church then to work. that will be exciting!
Today was another crazy day in the store, because of easter we had a bunch of guests come in. Then we are also doing easter baskets which are super cute and fun to make. Too bad I have been stuck on stocking duty and will probably not get to make any of them. Tomorrow is the last day though. so we shall see if we are the top seller again for year seven.
Besides that I got another comic drawn out and am trying my hardest to improve though I am not sure how I'm going to do that.
That is all that I can think up of today.
ttfn
Guess what I am going to do, that is right! Go to church then to work. that will be exciting!
Today was another crazy day in the store, because of easter we had a bunch of guests come in. Then we are also doing easter baskets which are super cute and fun to make. Too bad I have been stuck on stocking duty and will probably not get to make any of them. Tomorrow is the last day though. so we shall see if we are the top seller again for year seven.
Besides that I got another comic drawn out and am trying my hardest to improve though I am not sure how I'm going to do that.
That is all that I can think up of today.
ttfn
Thursday, April 21, 2011
April 20ish
These past two day's I have had off, and I have tried to use them accordingly. First off I updated my website with a new template and finished early the illustration I needed to do for illustration Friday.
Today (21st) I went to the florida Mall, did you know that we have an M&M store, yeah it has characters and everything. It was super cool, I was about to get a picture with the M&M guy when I realized I was by myself and I really didn't want to get close to the scary creature.
I was able to find shorts that are long enough which allowed me to toss my other shorts which just so happened to have a hole in them right in the region of the buttocks. So sadly I was not able to use them in a way that would be recyclable.
Oh well.
I also bought myself an Ipod, finally. My current Ipod holds about 30gb of music and lasts a whopping hour and a half. With the new one I will be able to put all my music on it and it will last 36 hours. Can you imagine it, 36 hours and I don't have to listen to the psycho's on the bus. I can listen to all my Harry Potter books while I am working on art. Oh the amazing possibilities!
Anyways I work tomorrow which is a good thing cause I now don't have ANY money and will at some point need to buy food and stuff. But yeah I think that I am going to start saving more of my pay check for master's degree. not that I'm making that much but a little at a time wont hurt and hopefully help.
That is all for now. Hope everyone's lives are bright and beautiful. Ta ta for now
Today (21st) I went to the florida Mall, did you know that we have an M&M store, yeah it has characters and everything. It was super cool, I was about to get a picture with the M&M guy when I realized I was by myself and I really didn't want to get close to the scary creature.
I was able to find shorts that are long enough which allowed me to toss my other shorts which just so happened to have a hole in them right in the region of the buttocks. So sadly I was not able to use them in a way that would be recyclable.
Oh well.
I also bought myself an Ipod, finally. My current Ipod holds about 30gb of music and lasts a whopping hour and a half. With the new one I will be able to put all my music on it and it will last 36 hours. Can you imagine it, 36 hours and I don't have to listen to the psycho's on the bus. I can listen to all my Harry Potter books while I am working on art. Oh the amazing possibilities!
Anyways I work tomorrow which is a good thing cause I now don't have ANY money and will at some point need to buy food and stuff. But yeah I think that I am going to start saving more of my pay check for master's degree. not that I'm making that much but a little at a time wont hurt and hopefully help.
That is all for now. Hope everyone's lives are bright and beautiful. Ta ta for now
Monday, April 18, 2011
April 17th
The 17th was great at work, we are starting to make Easter Baskets for Easter this coming weekend. I got to make two of the presentation one and that was fun because I was allowed to use my creative side. I miss doing that.
Also we had a couple of people that were from Lyon, France visit the store so I was able to speak french with them and it felt wonderful. At first I could speak well, because I was so excited about speaking french and with real french people not these crazy Canadians who only pretend to really speak french. They knew the location where I used to live and I also got to talk about my mission. The whole thing was amazing.
Then at the end one of the other workers got sick and went home. So I had to pick up the slack and close down two registers at night. That was hectic but I felt alive with things to do.
Oh update on my life and the internet. We had a fight last night and one of us went to bed angry while the other decided to leave. So I don't have internet in my apartment anymore at the moment. But thankfully I have locations where I can visit with other internet providers. Its okay cause my internet at home is quite lazy and slightly retarded. I just don't know how I will ever be able to connect to skype so my home teaching will just have to wait. oh well. Okay I need to go and distract myself so all have a stupendous day :)
Also we had a couple of people that were from Lyon, France visit the store so I was able to speak french with them and it felt wonderful. At first I could speak well, because I was so excited about speaking french and with real french people not these crazy Canadians who only pretend to really speak french. They knew the location where I used to live and I also got to talk about my mission. The whole thing was amazing.
Then at the end one of the other workers got sick and went home. So I had to pick up the slack and close down two registers at night. That was hectic but I felt alive with things to do.
Oh update on my life and the internet. We had a fight last night and one of us went to bed angry while the other decided to leave. So I don't have internet in my apartment anymore at the moment. But thankfully I have locations where I can visit with other internet providers. Its okay cause my internet at home is quite lazy and slightly retarded. I just don't know how I will ever be able to connect to skype so my home teaching will just have to wait. oh well. Okay I need to go and distract myself so all have a stupendous day :)
Friday, April 15, 2011
April 15th or whatever
Hello... yeah sorry....
well, my friends from BYUI are going home today and I have to say I am missing everyone already. One of my good friends Kayli was one of them. We tried to go out to do miniature golf for a last fling but yeah that is a fun story.
So here it is: We set out to get to the Blizzard Beach winter wonderland golf course. We started in Magic kingdom, the day was beautiful, I had a blue bird on my shoulder. Well as soon as kayli got off work for the last time we headed to the transportation information guy to ask which bus we should take to get to the golf course. He told us we had to get to a resort and from there catch another bus. When we got to the resort, we stopped the downtown Disney bus and the driver told us to catch a bus to animal kingdom to catch another bus to get to the golf course. I didn't want to commute the whole way and there was a service phone at the stop. So we called the front desk and they said that we should take a downtown Disney bus. I told her we just talked to a downtown Disney bus and they told us to catch an animal kingdom bus, she said that the animal kingdom buses were not going cause the park is closed and we should take a Hollywood studios bus because it is closer. We took her advice and waited for a Hollywood studios bus and when that bus arrived the driver stopped us and asked where we were going. When we told him he said not to take his bus because Hollywood studios is closed. At that point we gave up, we waited for the next bus to stop and we would just go to the park it was headed to just so we could do something before the fireworks. Well the next bus was for Epcot and as we sat down the speaker on the bus informed us that we would first be stopping at Blizzard Beach and then we would go to Epcot. We just laughed about it and said forget it, we were hungry and just wanted to eat in Germany and CHina and so we did. It is safe to say I have lost all confidence in the transportation system over here and can't wait to get back into a town where I know it well enough that I can walk there if I really wanted to.
Anyways besides that amazing story I don't have much to talk about, I am going to buy a new Ipod next week after my next paycheck and I am super excited about it, we get free engravings but I really don't know what I should engrave on it, I was thinking of a scripture or some inspirational quote or something so random all it can do is leave you wondering about my sanity. hehe this aught to be fun.
Well hopefully I will have some musings tomorrow, till then :_)
well, my friends from BYUI are going home today and I have to say I am missing everyone already. One of my good friends Kayli was one of them. We tried to go out to do miniature golf for a last fling but yeah that is a fun story.
So here it is: We set out to get to the Blizzard Beach winter wonderland golf course. We started in Magic kingdom, the day was beautiful, I had a blue bird on my shoulder. Well as soon as kayli got off work for the last time we headed to the transportation information guy to ask which bus we should take to get to the golf course. He told us we had to get to a resort and from there catch another bus. When we got to the resort, we stopped the downtown Disney bus and the driver told us to catch a bus to animal kingdom to catch another bus to get to the golf course. I didn't want to commute the whole way and there was a service phone at the stop. So we called the front desk and they said that we should take a downtown Disney bus. I told her we just talked to a downtown Disney bus and they told us to catch an animal kingdom bus, she said that the animal kingdom buses were not going cause the park is closed and we should take a Hollywood studios bus because it is closer. We took her advice and waited for a Hollywood studios bus and when that bus arrived the driver stopped us and asked where we were going. When we told him he said not to take his bus because Hollywood studios is closed. At that point we gave up, we waited for the next bus to stop and we would just go to the park it was headed to just so we could do something before the fireworks. Well the next bus was for Epcot and as we sat down the speaker on the bus informed us that we would first be stopping at Blizzard Beach and then we would go to Epcot. We just laughed about it and said forget it, we were hungry and just wanted to eat in Germany and CHina and so we did. It is safe to say I have lost all confidence in the transportation system over here and can't wait to get back into a town where I know it well enough that I can walk there if I really wanted to.
Anyways besides that amazing story I don't have much to talk about, I am going to buy a new Ipod next week after my next paycheck and I am super excited about it, we get free engravings but I really don't know what I should engrave on it, I was thinking of a scripture or some inspirational quote or something so random all it can do is leave you wondering about my sanity. hehe this aught to be fun.
Well hopefully I will have some musings tomorrow, till then :_)
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