My holiday dinner

Well its been forever but im back. I realuzed that there just isnt much time to post about the college program while your on it so probably the next time you'll hear about it, i will be on a plane back to california.

On another note, just in case you dont kniw already, i will be starting culianry school at johnson wales in the spring!!! Woo!! Haha very fun :)

But now to the actual subject of this blog :). My Holiday dinner :). I didnt have time to cook at thanksgiving dinner so i have decided to make a holiday dinner two week later. I have fully planned the meal complete with a schedule of what needs to be cooked the day of.  The menu? Cream and Cranberry Spread with crackers, homemade house rolls, roast turkey with citrus-rosemary glaze, citrus sweet potato rounds, and chic macaroni and cheese. I am super excited to grocery shop for it and cook it!! Im just having a couple of friends over and i only bought a small 10lb turkey but i plan on having lots of fun!! Stay tuned for a recap :)

Apartment Tour

Sorry it took so long!!! and the editing is pretty bad cuz i just threw it together real quick but after 3 months i finally have an apartment tour!! haha thanks for watching guys :)

Art Of Animation

Lers start at the begining of this awesome day. Slept in late at my friends and woke up to him calling our other friend telling him to get up. Got up, gathered me stuff and went back to my place to put on a bathing suit and eat some lunch. We drove back to his place to get our friend and after we did we made our way to the bus stop where we got on the B bus at precisely 2:34pm. We rode that to the Polynesian Resort where we got off and walked to the beach there. That resort is truly amazing but also very expensive. Its supposed to be like your in Hawaii :) we spent the next like 4 hours drinking and swiming and laying out in the pool. Which was awesome :) we even got layed!!! then we decided, hey, we havent seen fantasmic yet, why not catch a bus to hollywood studios and stand in line to see it? So around 8 we got on the monorail and went to the Grand Floridian where we sat in the spa and pool for like twenty minutes. From there we got on a resort bus. Once at Hollywood Studios we decides we had enough time to ride Tower of Terror, which is always amazing. Then we stood in line for fantasmic and had brownie sundaes from my work. They opened the doors to the Hollywood Hills at ten and we started walking in. We were lucky enough to get not only the front row but the middle of the stadium!! The show exceeded my expectations. One thing however is if you sit in the front row you will get soaked. We left the ampitheatre after it was over and went towards the buses where we decided it would be fun to board the first resort bus we saw and grab a cp bus from there. We got on the art of animation bus.  That is disneys newest resort. It has four sections, two of which arent open yet. They have little mermaid, lion king, finding nemo, and cars. We walked around finding nemo and cars. The cars area is truly amazing. I felt like i was p through the movie. Everything was lifesized!! The pool in that section is based off the cozy cone motel so they have huge traffic cones that act as cabanas!!!! Anyways it was amazing and i want my family to stay there:) i ended the day talking to my mom and my brother who sounded so happy to talk to me. I work tomorrow at 3:30 so i should probably go to sleep!! Night!!!

Wow!!! What a ride!!!

Well im on the bus home right now and got inspiration to finally write about my time here!! Haha my inspiration came from the fact that here i am about to get on the bus at Hollywood Studios, and off the bus comes my roommate. I was on my way home from work and she was on her way in. Thats the silly stuff that happens here in the Disney College Program. Another thing like that happened just this morning. I got on the bus at Chatham Square (another apartment complex) because i slept over at a friends, when the bus got to Vista Way one of my roommates got on!! Now this doesnt happen often for most cps, im just lucky to have two other roommates who work in the same park as me :) but let me pause to start from the begining:
I arrived in Florida may 14. It was extremely humid and it rained. The next day me and my dad went to magic kingdom and i was pleased to see that my dad could enjoy disney. He loved magic kingdom and said he couldnt wait to take his family there. My greatest memory of that day was when we walked out of Mickeys Philharmonic show and my dad was just like that was amazing!!! I dont know how they did that!! Disney can even amaze adults :)
On wednesday i woke up early and went to checkin where i met my roommates. We got the best apartment. Its not in the front but its super close to the front, the bus stop, both pools, clubhouse, mailroom, and its on the third floor so our living room has vaulted ceilings and a beautiful bay window. Already two of my roommates are gone. The first one left because she went to security to try and get me and another roommate termed. They sent us to a housing meeting and there they decided she would be better off in a different apartment.  Two days later we got a roommate from england, Carolyn. Shes great and is my actual roommate. Not long ago, another roommate of mine got termed for work-related issues. The next day we got another roommate who was already on the program she was just moving apartments. Somehow none of this bothers me that much. I still feel settled in and at home.
Five days a week i don a sunflower apron and straw hat and jump on the E bus to Hollywood Studios where i work on Sunset Blvd. I work in six different locations and could be doing anything from scooping ice cream to selling frankfurters and sausages from inside a boat.  Sunset blvd is supposed to be a Farmers Market that thrived in L.A. during the fortys. It has some wartime touches since its hayday was during the world war.  We are the biggest quickservice area in all of Walt Disney World. Sometimes my job can be trying, but i have made great friends there and the days i get to wear the mickey hand and stand outside to greet the guests are the best. Ive even had people take my picture waving to them!!!!
My name has been a constamt topic of conversation. When your always meeting new people it tends to be. The first couple weeks here i kept hearing from people at work "oh so yoooouuuurrrr Canada." Haha makes you wonder.....sometimes, however i wear a nametag i picked up from costuming that says my name is "Sam". Its fun to wear that one :)
Playing in the parks is definetly the best part about this program. I love going into the parks and feeling like i have all the time in the world.  Hollywood Studios is definetly my favorite.
Well i cant think of anything else but if you want to know anything about my time here just comment below!!!!!

Packing Vlog

Just a silly (can be boring) blog about my packing process.  Sorry it took me so long to post.

Well I arrived in Orlando yesterday and after getting the rental car and heading to the hotel, my dad and I ate dinner at Sizzler's, went to Walmart to go shopping for household items (towels, laundry detergent, etc.), and drove by Vista Way (my new home :)).  I then crashed when we got to the hotel room haha.  Woke up this morning around 8:30am, got ready, ate breakfast at the Ponderosa buffet, and made our way to Magic Kingdom.  Amazing!!!  You have to drive through what I call the "Disney Freeway" to get to the big huge sign that says "Magic Kingdom".  Then there are tons of Transportation cast members that tell you exactly where to park.  Then you board a tram (you don't want to walk, its a mile and a half) that takes you to the ticket and transportation center.  There we picked up our tickets at will call and boarded a ferry boat that took us across a huge lake to the park (yes it's on the other side of a lake and yes that is uber cool.  there is a lot of water in florida....) The day was amazing.  No long lines and we did everything we wanted to.  Even rode space mountain 3 times!!!  It was weird though.  The only way I can explain this park was that it was a mixture of being completely different from disneyland and being exactly the same to a fine detail.  Like pirates was exactly the same just the scenes in the beginning were kinda mixed up. Same with Jungle Cruise.  Tiki Room was shortened somehow.  Splash Mountain had more mini drops.  However, I felt like Peter Pan's Flight was an EXACT replica of that in Disneyland.  It's a Small World was like a mini it's a small world haha.  I went on the Peoplemover and the Carousel of Progress was pretty cool.  It was funny when I went on Space Mountain because since I've been on the one in Disneyland so many times its like my body knows exactly where all the turns and stuff are so when I went on this one, I could feel my body bracing for it to go one way and then it would do something completely different.  There are also a lot more drops on that one.  I also noticed that like EVERY ride has a fast pass.  weird.....

Anyways, great day and I'm really tired and I'm gonna get like no sleep.  It's 1:15am and I have to wake up at 5am to be at Vista at 6am, sucks..... oh well.  Ill post another blog when I have my next vlog about my first few days here!!! (by the way, the whether here is weird.....)

2 weeks to go!!!

well as some of you may know, I leave for florida in 2 weeks!!! I have a feeling this time will go by super fast!!!  I am starting a bucket list for the disney college program so when I finish it I will post it :)

for now, here is a trailer I made while messing around with the mac on my computer :)

I have also started packing and plan on going through my clothes tomorrow :) I'll keep you guys posted.

The formative college years

Well as many of you know my major right now is accounting. I picked that major because im good at it and economically its a good career. However im learning that its not what i really want to be. And theres the problem. I cant just be whatever i want because then i might pick something that doeznt pay or there isnt a demand for.  Here i am living my dream by moving to florida by being in the disney college program and its made me see that i should be living my dream all the time. But ive got to do that one step at a time. And it starts with the program. After that i think, wait for it,  that ill take some culinary classes at delta. Maybe even in san francisco. Yes i think i might go back to my dream of becoming a chef. Eventually i could go to the culinary institute of america and then maybe the disney culinary program and eventually end up at disney :) as a chef! What do you think? And this might almost certainly change and i might change my mind again. But as long as im happy and moving forward i think i will view myself as successful. Im trying to change my view on what that word means and i think it just might be working. :)