Disney's Hollywood Studios

Happy Saturday everyone! Yesterday was my first day off and I decided to spend it at Hollywood Studios with some of my new friends. This seems like as good an opportunity as any to start my personal rankings of the parks leading up to an overall list of my favorite attractions! I'm going to break down my rankings into two sections; rides and shows. For each park I'll do a top 5-10 depending on the number and my passion for a specific attraction. Let's dive in:

Tales from the Crypt... or Mansion

Today was another day of training at the Haunted Mansion. I learned the remaining positions and had to read the redundancy ridden Operating Guidelines (OG). The OG is all about safety procedure and how to proceed during unusual or less than optimal situations. I'm not allowed to get into specifics of the guide, but the training is very thorough and you should feel very safe when under the watch of Disney cast members. Communication is the "buzzword" in everything we do. Who cares about that though! I've got a story of a prank that took place in the mansion some time ago that will certainly amuse you.

The master will see you now...

I feel that so much has happened since last we spoke... I don't even know where to begin. The best that I can do is to give it to you in chronological order so that I don't leave any of the good, or bad, out of my account. Remember when I said Traditions was the big day? I lied. For those of you who are future attractions cast members, on site orientation is the real day that matters. Unlike your food, merch, and hospitality friends who find out where they work at casting, you find out specifically during on site orientation. I know where I'm working now, but that's a little later in the story. I'll start from the beginning:

And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word: Traditions!

Today was the big day! All the CPs that moved in on Wednesday were spit into two groups for morning and afternoon Traditions class. I had mine in the afternoon which was nice because my roommate that had his in the morning had to get up at 5:30am, not something I'm looking forward to. Traditions in the class that every student on the program has to take before they become an official cast member. It's just another long day on the college program.

It's been a hard days night...

Holy cow the last two days have been CRAZY. I know that word is tossed around a lot these days but I promise you that I mean it in this case. If there's one thing I've learned so far it's that The Walt Disney Company has shuttling around hundreds of college students down to a science. I think they said that 600 of us checked in yesterday and they managed to get us all processed and in our apartments over the course of 7 hours. It's quite the feat in my opinion, but I'm getting ahead of myself! Let's go back to my packing and flight first before I get into the Disney ordeal.

Song of the Day: Opposite of Adults by Chiddy Bang

Pretend I got this up before midnight, it's the song of the day for Saturday. Chiddy Bang drops a nice beat over a remixed version of MGMT's "Kids." If you don't know the original I've got that video for you too. I bought a new suit for the program today, pinstripes on charcoal grey. Classy.





Cheers,
David

Another day and nothing packed

Packing may have been futile thus far but my winter exploits have been fruitful! Another day closer to my flight and, unless you count thinking about doing my laundry, I am no closer to being physically ready to leave than I was when I moved out of my dorm about a month ago. Positives: I went skiing today, I'm getting a new suit and helping my friend with his movie tomorrow, and the Patriots play on Sunday. Negatives: at this rate I'm not going to start packing until Monday...

Either way here are some pictures from today's mountain adventure!

Procrastination > Packing

Those already down at Disney and those living outside of the greater New England area may not have been aware of the weather we've been having up here. Fear not! I shall inform thee! There was a pretty awesome snow storm during the duration of the day on Wednesday. From the moment I woke up until I feel asleep I never saw it stop snowing. At max height when I went out to shovel with my dad I think we had around 2ft of the stuff. I went outside and took a picture early in the day. You're lucky I like to document things because it was windy and nasty out there.

Here's what my house looked like around noon (notice the droopy pine tree and the general lack of sunshine):

A little wisdom I learned from Winston Churchill

Having a plan is a good idea. With t-minus seven days until my college program begins now seems as good a time as any to kick start my blog. Let me begin by saying welcome!

My goals for this blog are simple: