What Disney doesn't tell you

Hello humans. This is going to be a brief blog recapping all the things Disney didn't tell us.


What Disney doesn't tell you:

• You'll have some pretty amazing adventures, with equally amazing people.
• They will become your family, quickly.
• You will share a love/hate relationship with your fellow work CMs, You will always love them, but that doesn't mean you always like them. 
• You will be broke, not some of the time, all the of time. You wanna buy food? Good things there is a dollar store a short walk from vista. Save money before you go.
• The roaches (Yes, all the apartments in every complex have them) are twice the size of your head, on a good day. On a bad day, they can measure up to the size of a small dog/large cat. 
• The roaches also fly, and in the summer they swarm. (Have fun.) 
• If you live on the 3rd floor (I guess the 2nd floor is badish too) have fun breaking your back every time you need to bring laundry up or down, or even bring groceries in. 
• If you live at Patterson Court have fun walking to the bus stop at Chatham everyday. Especially with your groceries. 
• Don't take the Transtar buses...Remember when Disney said they were 'safe and reliable' ... they lied. 
• But most importantly, what they don't tell you is; you are going to make life long friendships, and you are going to make them really fast, bonding through the struggles you all face...and then one day, and one day soon, you are going to have to say goodbye....and it's going to break your heart.

The Disney College Program is amazing in a lot of way, and I wish I had known going into it what my life would be like after it. Some mornings I wake up more homesick for that place than I ever was for coming home to New York. Disney is still such a major part of my every day life, and my little Disney family is as well. I can't thank them enough for helping me through some of the hardest moments of my life while I was down there. I wasn't ready to say goodbye, and when it came to the end of my program it came up all to fast. I spent days crying, thinking about how my goodbyes to each person would be...would I say everything I wanted to say before the last time I would see them for a while ?

If you asked me in December if I would do the DCP again I would tell you a flat no. If you ask me now? I would, I am actually considering for applying for fall 2016 and going back down with my previous roommate Ashley. Nothings set in stone, and it's just a thought right now. But I have never felt like I belong in New York, and since returning home, I feel like I belong here less and less.