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howdy folks! Long time no see. After losing access to this account and struggling to get it back multiple times I’ve decided to just create a new account. Good news is the new blog will be my new account’s primary so I can finally follow people, send asks and do all kinds of fantastic things from my new blog. but first thing’s first I need people to follow! if anyone wants to go follow my new blog (http://lilylandproblems.tumblr.com/) i’ll be following back literally everyone. hop on over and say hi.

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A Day at MK (Part 1: Main Street)

“ugh bag check. this guy is gonna see all the receipts and wrappers i forgot to take out of here.” “are those socks??”  “that was awkward” “dude I know how to use my maingate im here like 12 times a week” “do I need a picture of the dedication plaque?”  “it’s the same picture every time.”  “i guess i can just put it on my snapchat” “TONY’S”  “I wonder when the Dapper Dans are on next.”  “F it let’s just go to the 3.35 cause I can never find them any other time.” “Do I want a photo alone?”  “I’m not wearing makeup I’ll get one when I’m pretty” “Those hot dogs smell good.” “I hate hot dogs” “Damn I want a hot dog” “I’ll feel sick though” “Ah screw it”  “Mmmmm that ice cream cookie smells good too” “That hot dog was a bad idea”

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Hello everyone. I’m sorry this blog kinda slowly died recently. Good news is I’ve become a lot more active on twitter because it’s just a lot faster and easier to use. If anyone wants to follow me to get updates on how my life at WDW is going like 12 times a day then here is the link. Feel free to also ask questions about anything. I may not be as active of a presence as I used to be but I’m still free anytime to help people out. 

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in Cars 2 one of the racecars mentions their mother. and then the racecar waves to his mother in the audience. one automobile birthed another automobile. 

when Mater tries to convince a car that he is not a spy, he says “i’m not a spy. my specialty is towing and salvage”. the car responds by saying “right. and mine is developing iPhone apps” before winking. not only is this a poorly placed pop cultural reference, but they have iPhones in this world. smartphones. Cars can hold mobile phones and use them and use their touch screen for various uses.

in Cars 2 there is a Pope. The pope is a car in a pope hat. he rides around in a Popemobile. a CAr is riding in another car. they make reference to the Popemobile. “is the Popemobile Catholic?”, Mater says as a “well duhhh” moment, much like our saying, “Is the Pope catholic?”. presumably this means the Popemobile is employed and must be specifically Catholic in order to be the chauffeur and carrier to the regular pope. Also, Catholicism is in this Universe. this means that there must have been an actual Jesus Christ car. also they mention at one point that gasoline is a “fossil fuel. as in dead dinosaurs!” so there must have been dinosaurs at one point in the Cars universe but were they actual dinosaurs or car dinosaurs how did this civilsation start how did the 

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so storytime the other day i was in the ToT gift shop eating ice cream and I was cold so I tried on a bathrobe that was still on the hanger on the rack and i said to myself ‘if i spill ice cream on this its a sign from jesus that i should buy it’. i lost half my ice cream but i now own a Hollywood Tower Hotel bathrobe. 

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I’m eating egg rolls in my bathtub because I need to eat, get clean and relax all at the same time. The egg rolls needed more time in the microwave but I don’t have the physical or emotional strength to get up. My Y&B lunchbox is on the floor of my room where I threw it when I got home last night. It is the universe mocking me. 

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Day three working Star Wars Weekends. ‘May the Force be with you’ has become a chortle worthy in joke or a sarcastic dismissal of people you don’t really like. Also, I never want to see another Dooney and Bourke bag again. 

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I'm thinking of doing the DCEP during the first half of next year. Although I'll be traveling for the second half. I'm scared that if I do the program, I will want to stay the 12 months (If I'm allowed to extend). My question is...have there been any Aussies that have only done 6 months and not extended? And how much more do you get to experience by doing the 12 months?

There have been plenty of people who have gone home after the first 6 months and not extended. Because I'm still doing the first half of my program I can't tell you with absolute certainty whether or not it's worth it. If you do the full 12 months you get to experience all of the special events that Disney runs from Spring break events, Star Wars weekends to major holidays like Halloween, 4th of July, etc. You also get the opportunity to switch roles/locations when you extend so you can experience a wide range of things in terms of the work element as well. It really comes down to personal circumstance when you're looking at whether to extend or not.

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A tragic love story

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How come you never continued making your DCP videos? Also have you/ do you want to extend your program?

I’ve had a few messages recently with similar sentiments to this and I guess it’s time to be honest with everyone. So here goes. I was super excited about vlogging when I first got here. I’ve actually still got footage I filmed of the first week with my mum and my check in day on my computer somewhere. But before I got the chance to edit any of that footage and upload it I found out where I was working and I was absolutely devastated. Not just mildly upset, like I considered getting on a plane and going home a few times that’s how upset I was. From the beginning I’ve always wanted to do attractions and when I got accepted into merchandise I was disappointed but I figured I’d be okay as long as I got a location that was busy i.e. not a resort. So when I found out that I’d been placed in Yacht and Beach Club resorts I was so upset I wanted to get on a plane with my mum and just head home. But I didn’t. I decided that as long as I could put one foot in front of the other I would get past it eventually. But I really didn’t want to vlog or blog about it because I knew that at that particular point in time there was no way that I could look down the barrel of the camera and tell everyone that I was having fun when I wasn’t. The first week of the program was absolute hell for me. I caught the flu from my mum and the scheduling Gods decided it would be an awesome idea to have me (including housing meetings, paperwork sessions, Traditions, DU training and orientations) work a week and a half straight while I was emotionally and physically destroyed. When I finally got to my location I was the very first of a line of CPs who were to join the Y&B team which means that while I would eventually meet some of the best friends I’ve ever had, at the time I was all alone in a location dominated by older full time and part time CMs. tldr; At the beginning of my program I wasn’t getting along with my roommates, I had no friends at my location, I was disgustingly unwell and very very very far from where I expected I would be. Then I had the worst run of bad luck I’ve ever had in my life (but that’s a story for another day) and somewhere in there I lost access to my blog, youtube account and editing software. So here we are a couple months down the track and I’ve slowly got everything back together and I’m finally really enjoying the program and the friends that I’ve made. But I feel like I’ve found a nice balance in my life between my work, personal life and personal projects (cause I’m still attempting to build my writing portfolio while I’m down here). I could pick up vlogging again but I don’t want to disturb the balance that I’ve found. I don’t intend to take down any of the vlogs that I’ve posted previously because I do believe that the ones on the visas and such might be helpful to future applicants but at the moment I don’t have any plans to go back to vlogging my program. Sorry if that’s more information than you needed or asked for but I’ve had a few people message me about not vlogging/blogging anymore. This is the best explanation I can give. Also, yes I am extending until January 4th 2016. I’m staying in merchandise but I’m moving to a new location on June 7th. 

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Hi, I'm from Sydney, Australia and I'm really considering applying for the Disney Program within a year or 2. The main reason I'm still thinking about it is because I've never lived anywhere other than home and living away kinda freaks me out. Do you mind just speaking about the Disney Housing (complexes, DORMS process, finding room mates, pros and cons to each complex etc.)? Thanks!! :)

I can’t really speak too much about the DROMS process because if you choose roommates to live with one of you fills in the DORMS form with all of the group’s preferences and then the rest of the group just accepts. Unfortunately, I wasn’t the one who filled in the preferences so I never saw that section of the form. In terms of finding roommates I found all of mine online which seems to be the best way to do it if you don’t know people irl who are doing the program. Some of my roommates I’ve become super close with and some of them were a lot different online than they are in real life but it seems to have worked out pretty well. You can also go random which has worked for some people I know but for others it’s been disastrous. I’m in Chatham at the moment and I love it. We get all the buses and our apartments are pretty nice. Patterson’s apartments are nicer (and so is their pool) but they’re also more expensive and they don’t have their own bus stop so you have to walk to Chatham whenever you need a bus. Commons apartments are also pretty nice and they have their own washers and dryers so you don’t have to walk to the laundry rooms or pay money to wash your clothes. Cons of Commons is they have a bus stop but not all of the buses go there so for certain bus lines you need to walk to Chatham. Also because they have the washers and dryers they are more expensive. Another problem with Commons is that the complex itself is very very long so if you’re in building 28 for example it can be like a 5/10 minute walk to the bus stop/complex entrance. Vista is generally (depending on how many people you have in your apartment) the cheapest and it’s like a 3 minute walk to a whole bunch of food places and convenience stores. Bad news about Vista is some of the apartments are really old and gross. Vista is in the middle of a major refurb though so I’ve heard that if you have a refurbished apartment it could be even nicer than some of the newer ones. I’d never lived away from home before this program and it’s such a great way to learn to be independent. Disney housing can sometimes be a little bit annoying with their rules and curfews but it’s a brilliant safety net for people who have never lived out of home before. Your rent and utilities are covered in rent so you don’t have to worry about that. It’s mostly about learning how to manage your time and your money so you can live comfortably and still do the things you want to do. Honestly, it’s had it’s ups and downs but this program is one of the best things I’ve ever done and it’s helped me learn so much about myself and what I want to do with my life. I cannot recommend it enough. 

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Hi! I was just wondering, with the August intakes for the DICP Aus/NZ, is there the opportunity to stay and work at Disney for 12 months, or does the program only for for 5-6 months?

Hi! The program is initially for 5/6 months and then about three months in you have the opportunity to extend so that you’ll be doing the program for a full 12 months. 

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oh look 4am. bed time. 

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im floorstocking every day on the new schedule and im so excited. my managers have given up giving me front of house cause they know I’ll just trade them away anyway