Today I woke up at 3:50 am to catch a 4:48 am bus so I could get to training at 6:30 am in backstage Magic Kingdom. I met some super nice girls from New Zealand who were on their second day of training at BOG today. They gave me some helpful tips and let me start memorizing the menus before the day even started.
I got to see the kitchen and the castle dining rooms for the first time, and my trainer took me on a short walk around our section of Fantasyland before the park opened so I could familiarize myself a little bit with the things people might be asking about.
I got to memorize the breakfast menu and lunch menu, learn all the table numbers in all three dining rooms, and read about 100 pages of the employee handbook/manual thing, which took forever and I was falling asleep for most of the time, because the information was helpful, but also distressingly dull in its layout and execution.
I got to try the breakfast menu, and I got the Croque Madame, because I wanted the Croissant Doughnut, but my trainer sighed and looked disappointed, so I tried one of the legitimate ones (sigh). It was bread with ham and egg and cheese sauce and it was really good. There was also a bowl of fresh fruit, consisting of, big surprise, cantaloupe and honeydew with a bonus two grapes and one strawberry. All breakfast items also come with a plate of pastries, so I go to try the zucchini muffin (delicious and not too rich, very edible and non-sickening), the blueberry muffin (good, but very similar to many other blueberry muffins), the apple pastry (much like the apple cinnamon bagel at Einstein’s, but even more wonderful), the chocolate croissant (so rich! very good, but since it was one of the last things I ate, it was tough to finish), and the regular croissant (very good, but a little crunchier today than I was hoping it would be, not burnt, just well done). I definitely plan to try a lot of the foods at BOG, and I’m fairly certain I get to try the lunch menu on my fourth day, which I’m excited about.
I spent a lot of my day in the little training room learning, but I met a lot of other cool people, trainees and otherwise, throughout the day, and I’m super excited about my coworkers and working at Be Our Guest.
I got off work at 3 pm and I popped in at the store in Disney University (Company D?) and got a cast-only pooh/piglet/tigger lanyard to wear when I’m in the tunnels and possibly just out and about (though not in the parks themselves). I also popped in at costuming and picked up two more sets of costumes and a pair of socks, but the past two days they’ve only had large, which bunch around my feet and don’t fit nicely in my shoes because they are far too big for my feet, and thick too. Then I went home (and picked up some packages from the Clubhouse, including my one shakespeare book and my new headphones/mic) and four of my roommates were home and we hung out and it was super nice.
We took a short walk to check out the gym facility and I found out the pool is on the opposite side of the complex I thought it was, and it looks like a nice pool, so I’m hoping to get over there at some point (maybe). I also checked the letter (not package) mail, but it was empty. :(
I need to reply about NJCL, but I haven’ heard back from Mrs. Bergeron, which concerns me a little bit, and I should probably just reply back and say it won’t work out, but I really want to host it in 2019 (exactly 60 years since it was last in MN).
