so far so good

there must be a storm or something going on outside, because it is the first time i have heard the rain from inside my apartment since i got here. i can hear the thunder and see the lightning as well, so it must be crazy out there. thank god i got home when i did or i would've been stuck trying to shelter. currently, the weather on my computer says it's cloudy. you can see how misleading that can be, and how annoying it is when i try to find out daily forecasts.

i just completed my last day of training, and so far so good. my first day on my own is tomorrow, for just six hours and then the next day is my assessment day. the day after that, the hard work starts and i'll be working eleven hours, and ten hours the day after that. i gotta brace myself, as i've never worked that many hours at disney before. on my first day of training i was trained in tortuga, which i mentioned before in my last post. day two was counter at pecos bill. training for pecos has to be divided into three days since it's so big. the counter really wasn't as difficult as i thought it was going to be. doing the drinks wasn't that tough either. granted, every time it was time for us to practice on stage, it was relatively quiet, but that's okay. yesterday, the third day of training was the toppings bar, or what we call the fixings bar since we're apparently western themed, don't mind we're all dressed like mexicans (not to steriotype, just how mexicans used to dress 'back in the day.') today, was the dining room. today was a lot of garbage. literally. we had to learn all the trash runs, and clean the most disgusting things i have ever seen in my life. (i'm probably exaggerating a little bit, but seriously, i wish you could try what we have to do just one day so you'd understand.) also, we learned how to greet guests (when we're 'greeter 1' we have to use a puppet and a cowbell,) and how to clean the dining room after guests as well. while it seems like a horrid job, i had a lot of fun tonight with the other people i was training with, and our trainer was hilarious. i don't think he meant to be funny, but he was very stern and straight forward, but made the funniest innappropriate jokes. he was great. i laughed a lot tonight.

so far, in all my training days, i have seen friends from main street who happened to come in for food. it was great to see them briefly, and i will definitely be going back to pick up some extra shifts because i really miss it! but so far it's not as bad as everyone told me it was going to be, but i guess i haven't really started yet. but so far, so good!!

p.s. for those of you who don't know, ben got his license & i can imagine how excited he must be! he's only been chomping at the bit since the day he knew what a car was! so good job ben! i'm proud of ya. drive safe and have fun. i know you'll be more than eager to do anyone's chores and errands for them, so between now and july, i'll create a huge list of places i need you to go for me;) hope everyone's doing well! xoxo