Why Disney? (21 Days)

 I am not big on cartoons, I haven't memorized every line to Beauty and the Beast, and I'm not dying to get autographs from every princess I meet.  So why Disney?  

1. Walt Disney only had $40 in his pocket when he moved to California to make his fortune.  He built an entire empire from nothing, and that inspires me.
2. Walt found what many people dream of and search for: Immortality. (In a positive way!)  
3. As a future business owner I look up to everything that he has accomplished, and continues to accomplish even after death.
4. I would love to work for Disney corporate when I graduate.  More specifically, with Touchstone or ABC.
5. I want to help make other people's days magical.
6. It will look good on my resume. (Damn good if I do say so myself!)
7. I am excited to take classes taught by Disney Leaders in areas such as marketing and leadership.
8. This is my chance to explore and try new things.  Where better to start than Orlando, Florida?
9. And of course, the perks!  Free park admission, meeting people from all over the world, cast-member only locations, etc.

I am honored to be a cast member, and I cannot wait to finally start in Walt Disney World!

My Surprise Party! (IUP Friends)

28 Days Until Departure

     I finished out my fall semester on Thursday and came how to the Poconos on Friday night.  Now I'm playing a waiting game.

     The end of my semester was bittersweet.  I was excited and scared and sad and sick as hell.  Not to mention a Prob & Stats final set to kill.  Up until this point I haven't allowed myself to actually believe Disney was going to happen.  I am not a fan of getting my hopes up.  I finally had to decide it was real when I arrived at my surprise party thrown by my IUP family!  Several of my best friends gathered to say goodbye.  I am so lucky to have people who care about me enough to do something like this.  They all wrote me little good bye letters and gave me cookies and ......punch.  I was all drugged up on cold medicine and had an 8am final the next day, but I was so thankful for the party anyhow.  The next two days were spent taking exams and sleeping off the sick.

     Now that I am home I am going stir crazy.  I haven't yet gotten my plane ticket because we are waiting for a check to come in first.  I don't have any luggage to pack in and I already miss my school friends.  Realizing that I wont be seeing them every weekend of the next semester hit hard.  My home life is boring and uneventful, so I want to go out with my high school friends and spend all of my time with them.  I'm hoping to spend a lot of time in Manhattan with one of my best friends over the next few weeks.

Disney is happening. My life is happening. 

It's finally time to step up and be on my own.  

I am ready.

Forty Eight Days

      In forty eight days I will be in Orlando, Florida, starting my internship with Walt Disney World.  I will be living with people I've never met in a state that I have only visited once, working full time and taking classes. And I thought going to college was scary!

      I decided that I wanted to be a part of the Disney College Program last fall, in my freshman year of college. I chose to apply for this spring, the only semester that wouldn't interfere with my required classes or marching band.  I applied the day applications opened and was one of the first to interview.  When I was congratulated on being accepted I was given three days to accept the position!  This all happened so fast, I have a hard time believing it is all real!

      Now here I am scrounging up the money for a plane ticket to the sunny Orlando!  I am participating in the Spring Advantage program - so I will be there from January 13th until August 1st, a whole 8 months!  My life is a storybook and I am the princess who wasn't even aware of her standing.  Now I must embark on my magical journey of hard work and surreal wonders.