Update!

Hey Howdy Hey everyone!

I haven't done an update in forever so why not now!  I thought I would get to update this a lot more than I do but I'm always pretty busy with my roommates and work etc.  that I seem to never get anytime/remember to update this.  I'm pretty sure since I last update this we finally got our two last roommates, Maggie from Columbia and Sara who is from Illinois.

ToT Princesses

So first off loving my roommates.  They are some of the greatest people ever and we get along very well.  We all have the same sense of humor and aspirations in life so its easy to get along and live with them.  The other week after one of our housing events (which I'll talk about later) we were talking about riding Tower of Terror and how much we love it.  So while talking about this we all decide, "hey why don't we just go to Hollywood Studios and just ride Tower of Terror before the park shuts!?"  And that's what we did.  We went with a hour and a half till the park shut and headed "directly to the Twilight Zone"  (haha ToT humor right there).  We rode ToT 4 times and each time we went on it, it got better and better!  The last time we rode for the night will be one to remember because one of the workers right before we dropped had us sitting there in complete darkness and silence.  We were freaking out cause we know what happens on this ride and that wasn't supposed to happen for that long.  All of a sudden though the Cast member over an intercom said, "hope you have a nice fall muwhaha!"  It was amazing!

I'm starting to count how many times I've been on ToT and I've been on it 16 times already and it is still magical and amazing each time I ride it!

And my Mum actually gave me this idea to count how many times I go to the parks as a guest, so here is the counter for that:

Magic Kingdom: 6

Hollywood Studios: 8

Epcot: 1

Typhoon Lagoon: 2

Animal Kingdom: 1

Blizzard Beach: 1

Work
Blizzard Beach!  I LOVE IT!  I'd have to say its a lot less stressful than I thought it would be.  I like my coordinators and other coworkers because they are all so helpful and if I have any questions they can answer them right away for me!  Right now its pretty slow at the water parks because of it being off season but there is still a decent amount of guests coming to the park.  I'm a deep water guard at Blizzard but so far have only been on one deep rotation. 

View of Summit Plummit from T-Bar

This past week at work we had Tier 3 audits, which means we had some people come into BB to look at what the slide ops and lifeguards were doing when they worked:  making sure they're enforcing the rules, safety etc.  I myself didn't see the auditors auditing me but I saw them walking around a lot.  On Thursday I did my first deep water rotation when the auditors came and it went amazing!  I did so well on my deep rotation and at T-bar (which is a zip line into 8 feet of water and a water slide all for one guard) that I was LIFEGUARD OF THE DAY!!!  But overall our coordinators said we did amazing with the audits and they even gave us Mickey ice cream bars...yum!

Oh here some other news about work...Typhoon Lagoon which is the other water park at Disney is closing in November for matience etc.  so all College Program guards at Typhoon and BB are getting relocated to other resorts as lifeguards or other role all together.  I'm still debating that if they give me a choice to switch roles whether I'll do it because I like lifeguarding but I also want to try other roles out.

Today I had my first 2 hour in-service.  In-service  is basically lifeguards practice.  We had to do six in-services a month and the 2 hour one counts as three of them.  I did one in-service prior to the 2 hour today so I had 4 and then it was my letter group to do regular in-service so I did that also.  So I only have to do one more in-service for the month!!!  wooo hooo

Housing Events

 The housing events at Disney are wicked fun lets say that.  The first one I went to, I went with my roommates LaNae, Katie, and Sara.  The theme of the event was change your fate, which if your Disney obsessed means-Brave themed.   They had music, obstacle course, food and drinks there so it was a great afternoon.  Also as a treat they had some of the characters there to take pictures with us.  Merida from Brave was there and also Goofy dressed in a kilt.  Sadly I wasn't able to get a picture with Merida but I did get one with Goofy!  As the housing event came to a close, we got in line for more free food to bring back to the apartment and we sure did get a lot.  Between the 4 of us we were able to grab 12 full pizzas! 

The next housing event at Chatham that was only a couple of days ago was Oktoberfest.  I know a little weird that it wasn't in October but thats okay.  This had almost the same things at this housing event expect no obstacle courses but there were more characters.  Mickey in a German get up was there, Snow White and her Prince, Dopey, Daisey, and Goofy.  The best part of the night was the German food!  It was so good and I just so happen was given a lot.  I don't know why but I guess they looked at me and said this girl can eat!  I also got to try a German soda which is Coke and Orange Fanta together and it was pretty good.

Coming up this next week is the next housing event and its going to be casino themed!