First Week of Work

So I think this is going to be a weekly thing and I think it's going to be every Monday, I was going to write this yesterday but I wanted to wait until after my shift yesterday. Mainly because yesterday was my first shift on my own but I'll get to that later. Wow this week has been crazy, I feel like I've already been here for a month it's already become like home to me. I forgot that it was only a week ago that I really started working. I've gotten a lot of work experience this week at both Saratoga Springs and Old Key West. The motto for the two resorts is "Two resorts one family" so I'll be switching back and forth between the two of them along with a lot of the rest of the staff. I learned this week how to do more stuff at the dispatch office mostly but I also trained as a greeter at Saratoga Springs which has the GAUDIEST costume you're ever seen. I also spent one day working with the Disney's Magical Express service. If you fly to Disney World ever and have not used Disney's Magical Express please do! It's a great and very reliable service that transports you and your bags to and from Disney World and the airport. It's also a really cool operation from my side of things just seeing how the whole process works it's pretty amazing! One of the best parts of the week was a day last week that should have started as a terrible day but ended up being one of my best days here. I forgot to set my alarm but luckily my roommate forgot to turn his off so I barely woke up in time. I didn't have time to have breakfast but I guess one day a week someone brings the cast at Saratoga Springs Krispy Kreme donuts so I had Krispy Kremes for breakfast. Since I rushed out the door I didn't have time to make myself lunch either and this was the best part of my day. Right before I went to lunch a woman who was on her way to the airport walked up to me and gave me two large bags and said "We're going to the airport we can't take all this with us it's too heavy and we can't take it on the airplane." I said sure and took it from her and it turned out it was two huge bags of food from Earl of Sandwich. This is the greatest sandwich shop I've ever been to and some of my favorite food at Disney World and it made my day! That was a great day but I think the day that I liked the most was yesterday because it was my first day working on my own, I have officially "Earned my Ears". I closed the dispatch at Old Key West yesterday and everything went pretty well my first time on my own. As the week has gone by I realize that I really love this job, you have a lot of interaction with guests and it seems like you just make people's day left and right! I haven't really encountered any problems yet or had a bad day but so far it's easily my favorite job and even though it's early I can so far say that it is meeting and even exceeding all of my expectations. Soon I'll be starting my classes (which I'm not looking forward to) and in about a month I'll hopefully be cross training to start learning about the front desk (which I am looking forward to) and soon enough I get to shadow some managers and learn about what they do on a daily basis (which I'm REALLY excited about). I've met a lot of really cool people and really enjoy my roommates we get along well. I met a group of girls who my roommates and I have been hanging out with and we mesh really well, it's nice to have a big group of friends to be able to hang out all the time. I'm still looking for a Church to go to, there's a Church nearby that I want to try out but I don't have any transportation so I'm still looking for someone to go to Church with. Besides that I'm loving this whole experience and I think every week is just going to get better and better. That's pretty much all I have over the past week so I'll leave you with a fun fact. Did you know the All-Star resort at Disney World has over 5,700 rooms and is the 3rd largest hotel in the world? Pretty amazing isn't it. Until next time