Pin Trading Problems.

When I first learned what "pin trading" was I scoffed it off as stupid and childish. But honestly, it's a real collectors sport. 
And since I have to trade pins daily at work, I have grown to love it. I actually ordered 75 pins offline on Amazon.com for like $41.54, which I rationalized by telling myself that 4 pins from any Disney location on property would cost around $40.00 so I got myself quite the deal. Although, some of them are probably fake. 

But everyone here pretty much traders fake pins here lately anyways. 

So that's my latest Disney life, pin trading for beginners because I don't even want sets...I just want all the cute ones. Which granted some of the sets are really cute, like pascal from Tangled. It's so cute. 

Happy Mondays and Animal Kingdom fun.

"You don't always need a plan.

Sometimes you just need to 

breathe. Trust. Let go.

And see what happens."

So, just a heads up if you hadn't heard 'Happy Mondays' is like the place to be on Monday nights. It's a chain of 5 clubs, located all over Orlando. You pay to get in, if you are over 21 you can drink, under 21 you can still dance and have a lot of fun. I've only been to Glitz and Sun on the Beach. 

Glitz is $10 for general admission && $15 for unlimited bar. 

Sun on the Beach was a free admission the night I went, and my roommates drink cost around $9.00 a piece. So it's slightly more expensive. 

Today: I went to Animal Kingdom with a group of fellow All-Star cast members, and some of my roommates! We had a blast, for the short time we were actually there, and when the rides were all operational, due to weather. 

But! I saw the Festival of the Lion King for the first time EVER! and let me tell you I would wait in a hundred rain storms just to see it, it was absolutely amazing. I loved it. 

We took a lot of photos and had a lot of fun out at Happy Mondays!

And then today at Animal Kingdom I took a bunch of selfies with stuffed animals!

It's casual. 

We also met some really cute Animals! 

^^We also met this guy, who looks like

he crawled right out of my latest 

nightmare. No joke. 

I know this post is a photo over-load, but we also took more photos..trying to condense them as much as I can!

SO ... that was a massive amount of photos and I am sorry for that. But I like to show the goo side of the DCP as well as tell the truth about a lot of the emotions's that fill everyone head down here. 

Have a magical night! 

Kayla.

The death of me.

Let me just start off with this: Brazilian tour groups and Disney gift card will be the death of me. 

It's totally insane the amount of gift cards a single person will hand you. Last night I had one girl hand me 32 gift cards, all of the containing like $0.33 OR $0.67 OR $1.02 Nothing more than $2.00. And on the off chance it had more than $2.00 on it, it would probably only have up to $6.00. 

It just makes me so mad. Like why wouldn't you use the entirety of a gift card before starting another gift card, and so on and so forth. It's not only a huge pain in the ass but it's also super inconvenient. 
It takes like 2-3 minutes per gift card to check the balance (which is the most frequently asked question: ehhh...much?) and then crazy lines form and it by the end of the night your right shoulder has separated from your body due to over use. 

Now on to happier stories! 

"If you keep on believing, the dream that you

wish will come true." 

So, we took some photos recently, in the happiest place on earth. It reminds me of all the reasons I love this place, even on the days that I say I hate it.

"I wonder how many wishes a star can give..."

-Whinne the Pooh. 

The above two photos sum up my personality fairly well. 

I met some very wonderful princesses and a queen as well. 

Then of course, I met a very special mouse. 

Mickey! 

So even after a long stressful few days at work, I always have these wonderful memories of the days that are perfect and wonderful. 

What they don't tell you...

Disney tells you a lot of things before you head down here. Some of what they don't is: 

1.) You will rarely have time to sleep. 
       -This is truer than true. You could sleep on your days off if you really wanted too.

2.) After a while you will never want to go to the park on days that you also have to work.
       -That's a waste of valuable energy you are already lacking
. 
3.) You will rarely have any extra money to go and do anything with, especially if you call in.
       -Food becomes something you need the most, and when that happens you can say bye to all the fun things you could have done with that pay check. Also, don't call in unless you wanna be extra broke that week, UNLESS you are actually sick, then call in! But it really does effect your paycheck a lot! 

4.) You may not get along with your roommate or all your roommates. 
       -Especially considering you've probably never met these people until being forced into a small apartment with up to 8 strangers. You might be one of the lucky few that gets along with every single one of your roommates and the neighbors across the hall. If so: you go Glenn Coco. 

5.) Brazilian Tour Groups will ruin your life.
       -Accept it now! Because if you are here throughout the summer it is going to become a daily struggle. 

6.) You are going to miss your family & friends more than you could ever imagine. 
        -Seriously though, there are some days that I just wanna come home from work and hug my mom or best friend and sob...But sadly that can't happen. 

7.) That you will have to fight to do your laundry. They give you three washers & three dryers. per building. My building has four apartments per floor, and three floors. Each apartment has 6 people in it. 
        -I have to do my laundry between the hours of 1am and 3am because that's the only time I can ever find a free washer or dryer. Also, the card reader on these washers and dryers is the WORST. You will swipe your cards OVER and OVER again just to get it too read. It also takes Quarters. 

8.) If anything in your apartment stops working or breaks you need to tell the service center as soon as possible. If you don't it could be something you end up paying for in the end. 
         -Our air conditioner, broke twice. One of our pots, had the handle snap off. The closet door in my room no longer shuts (someone is coming to fix that). Our kitchen light blew out. The list of problems we have had just gets longer. Report it. 

9.) It's also not going to be all rainbows and sunshine at your assigned job. You may love it or you may hate it. There will be magical moments, and moments right out of horror stories. 
         -Someday's you will create so much magic for so many people. And others they will ruin any chance of a good day/night that you thought you had. 

10.) If you get in a fight with your roommates you have no where to go to get space. So try and work it out as soon as possible because it becomes really hard to live in tiny apartments with a cold war going on. 


So those are the ten things so far that I kind of wished I had known going into this program, and if you aren't here some of them seem really minor. But when you are here...it's not. 

We said goodbye to two of our ICPs that have been working with my at All-Star. It was a sad night! Although, they are both on to bigger and better things! 
I was supposed to have some family coming down next month, but that fell through, which is okay. I can't blame them. Coming here is expensive especially with children.

I guess that's all I have for today! 
Have a Magical Day! 

A day in the life.

"You know that place between sleep and awake

that place where you can still remember dreaming? 

That's where I will always love you,

that's where I will be waiting."

-Peter Pan

I literally feel like I am dying. Who moves to Florida and catches the worst cold/flu of their lives? This girl. On top of that, who also gets a two-degree sun burn...Also this girl. 

Like seriously. 

I cannot. 

But I am just really feeling crappy today. But my roommates are being here for me, which makes it a little bit easier, because I am so fat away from home. I just wanted my mom to make me soup and take care of me today...well she can't because she's home...in New York.

But I am doing okay. 

and that's all the matters. 

Have a magical day. 

Update, more videos, and life.

Living here in Florida, and working for Disney is nothing like I actually expected. I had soooo many expectations for this program, and honestly none of them have actually been lived up too.
Don't get me wrong, I am still having the time of my life....but it's not anywhere near what I expected.

"Growing old is mandatory,

 but growing up is optional." 

-Walt Disney

So, my previous blog was really short, and did include a youtube video of all my photos taken so far. Well, not all of them. Because also in this blog I will be including the link to my; 

Disney's Festival of Fantasy

Disney's Electrical Parade!

Hollywood Studios Fantasmic!

So there you have it, obviously I have been having my fair share of fun since I got here. But it's not like I also haven't been working my ass off. 

Because I have. 

I literally work all the time. All the time. 

My journey so far.

So I upload a lot of photos to my personal Facebook Account, and to my personal instagram, but I rarely ever include any of them in my blog. Well...I decided to make an I-movie of all of my collective photos since day one. It's kind of a longer video, with no narration, and it's all still photos of my and my roommates and my friends. 

I plan to also do two more videos of a couple of the parades we have seen, and possibly my Fantasmic photos as well. I think it works out for me better than trying to film myself. 

Let me know if you like this first one and I will keep them coming. 

My first few weeks at DISNEY