1. If this is the first time you have lived away from home, you will learn your true living habits. I had always thought, "When I get my own apartment, I will..." I thought that I would spend time on making food, HA. nope. I thought I would decorate my billboard...I had one picture. I didn't care, haha! I still struggled with dishes and making my bed. You actually are hardly ever home, and when you are you hope to relax.
2. I learned many differences between Disneyland and Disney World!
3. I basically memorized the different music loops that play in each land I worked in. My favorite will of course be the Veranda restroom music in Adventureland.
here is a link to it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqoibEsn1L0
4. I got over my laziness. I worked 60 hours a week sometimes, had a 15 hour day in Veranda restroom and survived 8 days straight in Veranda. Of course I did start talking to myself by day five, but that's a different matter.
5. I learned that guests get dirtier as the day goes on. A morning shift or mid shift is always easier than a night shift because guests just don't care at the end of the day and will leave you with whatever they didn't want to deal with.
6. I learned what stalls get the dirtiest. This is a lesson, folks: Don't choose stalls that are busy, such as the first few stalls. If these stalls always have people in them, I obviously can't check on them or clean them so often times I find this stall trashed because women have not cleaned up after themselves but still feel the need to use the restroom.
7. There is a machine in the restroom that has 3 options: Tampon, shield, and napkin. It took me a while to figure out what each of these meant but I quickly had to learn because the guests also had no idea. I got so embarrassed of trying to explain what a tampon was to guests that did not speak english that I carried extras around with me. So, obviously a tampon is self-explanatory, but a napkin is a pad (I believe it is regular sized) and a shield is a panty-liner or mini pad. There are no diaper machines in the restrooms, Sorry.
8. Not many people respect the ADA stall, which is apparently known as the "Big stall" to some. So many women take their children in there with them, and of course their strollers (which should not be in the restroom in the first place!). Women, please respect the stall and leave it for those who need it!
9. Disney is so magical that it makes your local theme park look so rinky-dink and has basically ruined all other theme parks (except perhaps universal which I have never been). I recently went to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom and realized that they really don't care about show, efficiency, or courtesy. There was one tram running that held only 45 people so we waited a long time to get to the park. The played really ghetto music. I think I saw one employee smile the entire day. They we EXTREMELY understaffed, (which I can understand, because who would want to work there!?) and it left our family in line for lunch for almost 45 minutes because there was only ONE register open! There lime green shirts are so bright that you don't even want to look at them or approach them (which might be why they wear them). We saw the new show and we left in the middle because it was so bad.
10. Because Disney is so magical people's minds "go on vacation" but this is just a compliment in disguise. When I visited six flags I had to keep my head on straight because I had to make sure that my family was safe. At Disney, the cast members do that for you, so it's a compliment when I am asked by a guest how to exit the restroom and silly little questions like that. I get it now-even if I was annoyed at the time but of course I always wore a smile on my face.
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| The gang. |
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| Party at Typhoon Lagoon! |
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| End of the year party! |
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| Love:) |
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| Saying goodbye to my roommates and Magic Kingdom |
Post-disney depression is of course my life right now. I need to do something to keep me busy. I am already thinking about applying to work at Disneyland, as well as looking into traveling abroad. I am also looking in to doing another term of AmeriCorps, possibly with the California Conservation Corps, but for now I will be going to DVC once again and continuing my education.
Here is a link to a Youtube video that one of my roommates from Disney put together:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz4BRlR2H54
See ya real soon!
