Jan. 21st, An official photographer

I earned this certificate after 4 long days of training, in the cold wet rain, with a weird trainer, but I got it!

So now I'm an official Disneyland Photographer!

Yes, I'm excited :)

Jan. 16th - Jan. 20th The BEST job EVER!!

So Saturday my friend from South Weber that did the Program before me flew to Cali and so we went to Disneyland together! It was the most awesome visit I have ever had to Disneyland yet! He just knows so much about Disneyland! And also he taught me me how to really enjoy Disneyland the slow and more relaxed way, and I definitely won't ever run around Disneyland all hectic again cause it was so nice! We also waited in line for Stitch (his favorite disney character) and Stitch was so awesome to me and was teasing and having fun with me it was great! We had fun taking funny pics on the rides and just enjoying how pretty the park is!

And all this week I have been training 8 hours a day. It also has been raining like crazy down here, I have gotten my pants and socks and shoes completely soaked everyday so far. It has been a lot of information and long hours not being to be outside to take pictures that much but today we got to take pictures with guests and Princess Tiana, and Mickey! I seriously had soo much fun and I am now soo pumped for my job! I loved seeing all the little kids faces and how much they were memorized by the characters and I got to capture some of those amazing pictures so they could look at them forever! Let me just say, that today was the best day! I really think that I have one of the best jobs ever! Well I hope I still feel that way in 7 months, or maybe I don't want to feel that way cause then I will have to come back home then.

It's so crazy to think I have only been gone for 2 weeks! I have had so many adventures and felt like I have already changed so much! And for the better of coarse!

Well until next time!

Friday Jan. 15th, another trip to Disneyland!

Yay! I love Disneyland so so so much and thats why I wanted to come work here cause then I could be a part of the magic :)

Meet my wonderful and amazing roommates!

(look at the Mickey pic up there)

So it's Me, Mandi, Kelsey, and Janell

Seriously we all get along soo well! I love them all already! We have already made so many memories and I'm sure there is more to come!

Well today we all had the day off, and we have tomorrow off too! So what better way to spend a day off, then spend it in Disneyland? So thats were we went!

We rode awesome rides, and got pictures with characters, and even used our amazing discount to buy us some awesome goodies!

I just hope I haven't scared my roommates off too much, haha I'm kind of a weirdo and I think they are finally figuring that out! Oh well :)

Haha seriously tho, I love everything about this place here! We shopped a lot today, and when we did we talked to a lot of the cast members. I love them all! They are all so super nice and friendly! Even after I'm done with the College Program I'm going to make an effort to talk to them more cause it just makes it that much better!

After the wonderfully amazing fireworks (they only have them on the weekends on the off season) we were all pooped and made our way home. We all got onto the tram wanting to go home and ended up being in the very back of the tram on the last row. Well the guy that speaks on the speaker had kinda a funny accent and he proceeded to tell the required, "keep your hands and arms inside at all times" speech in a different language. And me being pooped thought it was hilarious sounding so I busted up laughing. Well apparently he liked that and the WHOLE ride he kept saying jokes over the intercom and we (me and my roommates) were all busted up laughing the whole way to the parking garage! Lets just say it was an awesome tram ride. I'm so sad now that I didn't get his name cause he was awesome! Thank you mystery tram guy, you made my night :)

Disneyland blog??

This is me and my mom when we first got to my apartment in my nice new room :)

Well I'm here in California, living the Disney dream! I called Keri the other day and she told me I should blog everything I do here, and at first I thought, "Nah, no one will read it!" But now it keeps going through my brain. So if you would read my updates about my Disney College Program experience just comment below please :)

Well I'm too excited right now so I'll tell you what I have done so far!

Well we (mom, dad, and me) left Friday morning and made it all the way down to St. George, and met up with my awesome aunt Crystal and her husband Bart and they took us to Chili's for dinner! I love Chili's and I love them so it was an awesome combo! It was so great to talk to them about everything too! They are such awesome people! So then we stayed at our favorite Hampton Inn just by the outlet malls that night.

Saturday we drove from St. George to Anaheim California! We drove around my apartment complex and actually met some of the families that had someone in the program too. We then took Beach Blvd. all the way to Huntington Beach. By the time we got there it was pretty dark, but really the beach is still pretty even when it was dark. It was awesome to watch the waves and it was really relaxing. We then ate at in and out and went back to the hotel. Mom and me decided we wanted to explore what was going to be my neighborhood after that so we took my gps (his name is Jason) and explored my neighborhood.

Well Sunday morning arrived and we all got ready pretty early, I was excited/nervous but we made our way to my apartment complex where my check in was. We got there and everyone was so nice and soo welcoming, I had to basically just sign a few things and hear how to work my bus pass and where I was going to park. I was very lucky to get the parking right under my building! Thankfully mom and dad helped me then move into my nice apartment, it was quite the workout tho! We parked on the 2nd story of the parking garage on the opposite street of my apartment building and I live on the 4th floor, and sense everyone was moving at the same time the elevators were almost impossible to get, so we took the stairs cause it was faster that way. After we got everything into my apartment dad just seemed to relax out on the couch in my living room, I feel bad cause I'm sure he was super pooped after moving all my crap. Thanks dad though I really REALLY appreciate it! So dad was out there, he put my dvds on my dvd shelf and he also found out some stuff for us too! And mom and me were unpacking and organizing all my clothes and stuff. So soon I was all moved in and we were hungry, we ate at Subway, I got a footlong so I could eat the other 6 inches for dinner. And then it was time to say goodbye they had to make it to Las Vegas that night! So it was very hard, especially cause I didn't want to cry in front of my new roommate, thats not a very good impression I thought. So I fought back the tears as my parents left. I then had a meeting at 4:30 and I got to know my roommates! I went to sleep that night hoping I wouldn't talk in my sleep and wake up my roommate haha.

Monday we had the day off and all my roommates had plans with their different friends, I went to lunch with my friend that lives here, and then I kinda just chilled at the apartment the rest of the night. It was pretty nice to get some alone time, and finally breathe cause I no longer was nervous about the whole moving in thing.

Tuesday we had 2 orientations, they were pretty long and boring, but we got some free stuff and lots of papers, but at the end of the last orientation they took us on a surprise backstage tour of disneyland after it was closed :) We were all so excited it was awesome!

Wednesday we had to be checked in at 7:30 for Traditions (basically another orientation) We got another tour of Disneyland but this time it was while it was open. I loved all the looks people gave us because we were in a group all dress up nice and just walking around the park. People didn't know what we were doing there haha. So Traditions lasted almost 8 hours so I was pretty pooped when it was getting to the end. But then all of the sudden Mickey showed up! And as soon as he was there, he was gone :( but we did get our name tags and ID's which was our FREE ticket into the parks! So we were all so excited we got together with some new friends of ours and went to Disneyland! I was sooo excited! Even my roommates were making fun of me cause I was so excited haha. Well the parks close early cause it's still winter season so we weren't there for long. And by the time we got back home I was exhausted!

So now today (Thursday) we all slept in and then went grocery shopping finally cause this whole time we haven't had much food in our apartment, and we needed other various stuff we didn't bring. We found a super Walmart about 25 miles away from where we were so we ventured out there! Lets just say we probably won't go there again it was in a pretty sketchy part of town. But we did get everything we needed. We are just sad there aren't very many walmarts around here. I'm sure we will get used to it though. On our way back we hit traffic so when we got home it was pretty late to go out and do anything so we just stayed home and got some stuff done.

Well I know that was really long I'm sorry I ended up typing a lot more then I planned! I just had so much fun this week I wanted to share :) even though it just looks like a long boring story now that I look at that! Well I'm not sure if I want to make daily blog posts or just every now and again updates. Cause I'm sure everyday won't be worth blogging about haha. So I understand if you don't read all of this post but if you did, please leave me feedback if you will read and what you think I should do it would be greatly appreciated :)

so ttfn! Tata for now!

I'm gonna soak up the sun :)