This morning I woke up just at the right time to get ready for today, eat breakfast, pack up everything, and get down to the van that takes me back to the airport. When I got to the airport I got to the bus station and headed for Disney! The drive was pretty and only took about a half an hour. When we got to the welcome area they took our bags and stored them for us while we waited in lines. We were waiting to get our housing paperwork taken care of. We filled out contracts, and contact sheets, and were given room numbers, and keys, and housing ID passes. We finally got to the end of the line and were hoping for that time to run home and put our stuff away. Instead we sat for awhile and waited for the bus to take us to the casting building. It was beautiful. The Disney style goes into everything including the architecture of the business buildings on Disney property. The doors we went through at the front of this building had the Alice in Wonderland doorknobs (which are unique to only the Disney version of that movie). We spent three hours waiting in line after line after line. We were doing all the normal stuff you would do when you get a job; filling out W4s, signing paperwork, writing your social security number a hundred times. The only part of the three hours I spent waiting in that building that I can remember is the guy who took my paperwork at the end, being finger printed, having a background check run on me, and having my picture taken at the end. Altogether those things took a total of maybe ten minutes. What I did for the other 2 hours and 50 minutes I cannot remember.
When we finished at the Casting building we went and picked up our luggage. Come to find out my backpack, which I’d chosen to leave in the care of those storing the luggage, had been left sitting in a puddle of water inside the tent. Luckily this morning I’d listened to the promptings to move all my books to the bottom of my bag, move my camera equipment to the top, and to take my laptop with me. The only damage done was to my Book of Mormon which is now drying on my dresser. By the time I got home I was exhausted and thrilled to finally get to my apartment and unpack. Two young men helped me bring my heavy suitcases up the stairs. I opened my door and what a surprise! My apartment is HUGE! Mommy says that it’s just a regular size apartment and that if I were to be renting one in a normal situation (besides schooling) this is the size the apartment would be. Compared to the dorm room sized apartments I’ve been living in, these apartments are very big. There are four of us to the one apartment. The room is bigger than my room at home, the bathroom has a walk in closet and could probably fit a twin sized bed in it. I think it’s ginormous .
After unpacking I went with my new friend Cherika to dinner and stopped at Walgreens to get breakfast for tomorrow morning. Tomorrow we have a housing meeting and the rest of the day to grocery shop and settle in. After that we have the “Traditions” meeting which is where we begin training. Thursday will begin my actual training and from there I will be told to do.
It is very warm here! Every time you go outside you expect the chill and it never comes. It’s going to be fun to see what this experience brings.
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