I've reached the 2 month mark and am still surviving the Disney experience ... just! Unfortunately I have been ill this last week so not sleeping very well and feeling lousy at work but it finally seems to be passing thank god! Lots of people at work have had the same thing.
Right I will try and start from the beginningish of the month and explain things in a vaguelly chronological way seeing as its been nearly a month since my last post! Hmmm Well there was results day which was strange being here so far away from it all, looking back I really should have booked a eurostar back for that day and taken some time off, silly Naomi! Not sure how I would have paid for that though to be fair. My Belgium friend Niek took me out to Cafe Mickey in the Disney Vilage though that eve and we had a really nice time, not quite school disco at Stonehouse but we had lots of fun taking pictures with the characters and generally being big kids. He is training to be an actor so we get on really well and seem to have lots on common :)
I have been out to Paris twice in the night this month. First time was at Duplex with a czech girl and then 3 people from work, my English friend Ben, Mikk the Estonian and Elisa a Finnish girl. We went on a Sunday so it wasn't too busy and overall a good night if a little crazy! Then a couple of weeks ago I went to a bar called Cafe Oz with Elisa again and my German friend Laura. It was a reeally cool australian bar which at night turns into a club. They push all the tables aside and everyone dances on the table and the drinks were reasonably cheap! It did close at 4.30am which did mean we were waiting for the first metro for an hour or so, but it worked out ok and had a really god night.
I did my training at BTM and it was very tough there are so many procedures etc. I much prefer Steam Train I have to say, ti definitely made me realise how attatched I am to the team there and I really like the job so whenever I am at BTM I am not too happy. I also may have pressed the wrong button when dispatching a train a caused the attraction to break down! They were not pleased at all and since I have only been on outside positions and not controlling! I am working there all this week though so they may give me a refresh or somehting. I have my hours up to 16th now and I am thinking I will come back end of Sept instead of extending to Oct. I am enjoying it here but I have thought of lots of things to do at home before I go to Finland in January and one person can only take so much Disney! Tiffany said she can hopefully come see me this month too which would be loverly!
As the summer is over and the peak season has ended I have started 10 hours of work a day with 3 days off. I have only done one day that long so far and it really took up the whole day. I woke up for work at 9 and then didn't get home till after 9 in the eve. Another day off though will be nice, I will try and do some more touristy things in Paris. Almost all my friends have left because they were only staying the summer so I have had to say goodbye to so many people which is sad, especially the people I am closest to. I have already planned to go see my Hungairan friend in Budapest when I am back home and Niek wants to come to London which would be great. It was so strange at work as there is usually 20 of us working and there were only 10 instead!
This also means that I have had to move residence as I was staying in a hotel before that was being used only for the summer as the Disney residences were full. I have now moved into the Boisserie a fulltime Disney resdince and arrived today. I am with an Italien girl and 2 French girls so will be speaking French at home all the time too which will be a great intense French experience for the last month when I really want to keep getting better before I leave. I haven't actually met the two French girls yet but the apartment is really nice. It may not be the 4 star hotel but ti is a lot cosier and ther is lots of space. I am lucky because some people have apartments of 6 but we are only 4. There is a really big room with Kitchen, liunge and Dining room in it, then two doors lead of to two corridoors each with a bathroom and bedroom for 2. There are lots of bits and bobs everywhere and it seems really like I home so I think my roommate may have lived in the apartment for a long time as I know the other Italien arrived today like me and she says her roommate has only been here 2 months, I will ask her when I meet her. It really reminds me of my aunt Anne's flat in Finland, all open plan and lots of trinkets everywhere. I could see myself living happily here. Also my Spanish and Finnish work friends are at the same residence as they are 2 of the 3 short contract people who are staying on at work because they are doing 6 month contracts which finish end of Sept. That makes it nice and I went to the supermarket earlier with Elsa earlier.
I will try and get to bed now it is neary 11(I'm alone in the apartment atm), as I have a loong day at work tomorrow and want to feel better for that! Night night England not too long till I see you dear xxxx
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Thursday, 5 August 2010
Steam Train uniform
So many people have asked to see it so here it finally is. One is costuming at I Imagination building with the sexy hat and one on Mainstreet station in my 1st week.
1 month of Disney!
I am now in my 5th week at Disney and much has happened since I last posted!
The more I work here, the more I like the job that I am doing. I have been out with the team quite a few times now and they really are a lovely group of people. I understand the job quite well now and though I still make mistakes every now and again I definitely know what I am doing overall. Saying that, yesterday I opened the station at Discoveryland too early, I looked like some mad woman running to catch up with the long queue of guests to stop them getting into the station!
Next week I am being moved to Big Thunder Mountain to do 5 days of training there so that I can work on that attraction too. I'm not sure how I feel about this. Overall it is good to be moving onto others things especially as I am here for longer than almost all the other people my age who leave in August, but even so I don't want to work on the Steam Train less haha. I really have become attatched to those trains! Plus everytime I have told one of the older workers that I am going to BTM (Disneylingo for Big Thunder Mountain) they all say how hard it is and how the group isn't very good and its very stressful! I remember how hard the first times at Steam were and I dread to think what this will be like! BUT it is a good oportunity to practise my French even more and learn new vocab and I guess a challenge is always good so I will update on that when I have finished it. The cowboy costume is miles better anyways :)
I have been to karaoke 3 times now and I love it lol, it s atradition now and I'm a bit of a regular. First time I sang YMCA with a group of us. Then 2nd week we sang Spice Girls Wannabe and I sang A Whole New World with a Hungarian friend and Spanish friend, which was quite a treat I'm sure! Last monday it was the goodbye of my Spanish friend Pere who has finished his contract already so there were about 30 of us there in the end and I sang Its Raining Men as a duet with him haha, first up and everything! Its really sad he's gone he always cheered up Main Street station.
My roommate Sophie left last week too because of problems with a friend back home, which was soooo sad because she was my closest friend here. Its very quiet in the room without her and I miss having her around but its kind of got me to go out with more different people and I am especially good friend's with a Hungarian girl from Steam called GyGy :)
I went out a lot last week actually as it was also an English guiys birthday and then I also went to Paris 'clubbing' for the night with some girls. That was a complete disaster as we never actually got in the club. We went to some guys apartment which was like a millionaire's flat and really surreal with these really god looking guys and velvet carpets, chinese vases and paintings, with opera programmes just strewn around the floor. Then one of them turned out to be a professional musician and serenaded us. Turned out they didn't want to go clubbing with us in the end and my friend was feeling pretty rough so we lef tin the end but did go and try to find the club. The station entrance was closed though so we found another club but weren't allowed in! It was 2.30 by this point so I don't know if it was too late or if they'd thought we'd drunk too much or what but it was so bad. We had to get a taxi to the bus station (though the view of Paris as we drove in the night was BEAUTIFUL) then we got a night bus for 2 hours where my friend got off at the wrong stop for her hotel and had to wait 2 more hours alone for the first train! Then the other 3 of us finally got to Val D'Europe the near by town and had to walk from there to home. We finally stumbled in at 6am. I wasted sooo much money on travel but atleast it was a story to remember!
I am seeing my parents and Yasmin next week yaaaay :D I can't wait and best of all is I have one day off when they are here! I only found that out today as I was doing training on BTM so thought it would be impossible to swap but it's all worked out :) They arrive on 10th and will go to the park free with my tickets I get then I will meet them there after work. 11th I will meet them in Paris after work and stay the night there then I have the next day off to spend in Paris with them. I feel rather out of touch with everything back home so it will be so nice to see them. Plus I have a million and one things I want my mum to bring for the next 3 months and I need to give her some stuff back so that is always useful! I will be shattered that week though with doing the training aswell.
I also now have 19th August off as my Germnan friend wanted to swap a dfferent day with me. This kind of works for me with it being A level results day and all :/ Even though I am abroud I have thought about it quite a lot, but all I can do is wait I guess, my sister and mum will go get them at 10.
I'll end my update here as its 11 and I'm chatting it up in reception so night night England. Lots of love from Paris xxxx
The more I work here, the more I like the job that I am doing. I have been out with the team quite a few times now and they really are a lovely group of people. I understand the job quite well now and though I still make mistakes every now and again I definitely know what I am doing overall. Saying that, yesterday I opened the station at Discoveryland too early, I looked like some mad woman running to catch up with the long queue of guests to stop them getting into the station!
Next week I am being moved to Big Thunder Mountain to do 5 days of training there so that I can work on that attraction too. I'm not sure how I feel about this. Overall it is good to be moving onto others things especially as I am here for longer than almost all the other people my age who leave in August, but even so I don't want to work on the Steam Train less haha. I really have become attatched to those trains! Plus everytime I have told one of the older workers that I am going to BTM (Disneylingo for Big Thunder Mountain) they all say how hard it is and how the group isn't very good and its very stressful! I remember how hard the first times at Steam were and I dread to think what this will be like! BUT it is a good oportunity to practise my French even more and learn new vocab and I guess a challenge is always good so I will update on that when I have finished it. The cowboy costume is miles better anyways :)
I have been to karaoke 3 times now and I love it lol, it s atradition now and I'm a bit of a regular. First time I sang YMCA with a group of us. Then 2nd week we sang Spice Girls Wannabe and I sang A Whole New World with a Hungarian friend and Spanish friend, which was quite a treat I'm sure! Last monday it was the goodbye of my Spanish friend Pere who has finished his contract already so there were about 30 of us there in the end and I sang Its Raining Men as a duet with him haha, first up and everything! Its really sad he's gone he always cheered up Main Street station.
My roommate Sophie left last week too because of problems with a friend back home, which was soooo sad because she was my closest friend here. Its very quiet in the room without her and I miss having her around but its kind of got me to go out with more different people and I am especially good friend's with a Hungarian girl from Steam called GyGy :)
I went out a lot last week actually as it was also an English guiys birthday and then I also went to Paris 'clubbing' for the night with some girls. That was a complete disaster as we never actually got in the club. We went to some guys apartment which was like a millionaire's flat and really surreal with these really god looking guys and velvet carpets, chinese vases and paintings, with opera programmes just strewn around the floor. Then one of them turned out to be a professional musician and serenaded us. Turned out they didn't want to go clubbing with us in the end and my friend was feeling pretty rough so we lef tin the end but did go and try to find the club. The station entrance was closed though so we found another club but weren't allowed in! It was 2.30 by this point so I don't know if it was too late or if they'd thought we'd drunk too much or what but it was so bad. We had to get a taxi to the bus station (though the view of Paris as we drove in the night was BEAUTIFUL) then we got a night bus for 2 hours where my friend got off at the wrong stop for her hotel and had to wait 2 more hours alone for the first train! Then the other 3 of us finally got to Val D'Europe the near by town and had to walk from there to home. We finally stumbled in at 6am. I wasted sooo much money on travel but atleast it was a story to remember!
I am seeing my parents and Yasmin next week yaaaay :D I can't wait and best of all is I have one day off when they are here! I only found that out today as I was doing training on BTM so thought it would be impossible to swap but it's all worked out :) They arrive on 10th and will go to the park free with my tickets I get then I will meet them there after work. 11th I will meet them in Paris after work and stay the night there then I have the next day off to spend in Paris with them. I feel rather out of touch with everything back home so it will be so nice to see them. Plus I have a million and one things I want my mum to bring for the next 3 months and I need to give her some stuff back so that is always useful! I will be shattered that week though with doing the training aswell.
I also now have 19th August off as my Germnan friend wanted to swap a dfferent day with me. This kind of works for me with it being A level results day and all :/ Even though I am abroud I have thought about it quite a lot, but all I can do is wait I guess, my sister and mum will go get them at 10.
I'll end my update here as its 11 and I'm chatting it up in reception so night night England. Lots of love from Paris xxxx
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