still extraordinary

i thought i'd write a quick post before i went to bed, since i've been nagged for another one. the past few days have been extraordinary, as usual. i continue to love every second of life up at disney world.

last wednesday, i had to go to a class where we took this personality quiz type thing. after the quiz, which consisted of nearly two hundred questions, it told us our top five themes (which is out of hundreds of other themes.) it carefully chooses themes for each individual. my top five themes were futuristic, communication, empathy, positivity and strategic. they also gave us detailed reports specific to each person, and i sent it to mum to look over and she said it definitely was me. after that, i went to a friend from work's house. he's from mexico and he decided to cook mexican food for me and some of his other friends. we all limed together and had a great night. it was super fun. i continue to make new friends from all over the world every day and i still don't fully believe that this is really happening to me. it still hasn't hit me yet, and it's been four months. in fact, i just looked at the date while i wrote that, and surprised myself by seeing that it's been exactly four months today. wow. time has flown. in fact, i think time needs to actually slow down a little bit.

going back to work on thursday after three days off was a lot more difficult than anticpated. it felt like if had been on summer for three months and was going back to school for the first time. but nonetheless, i still enjoyed work, even in the sometimes unenjoyable times, like cleaning the garbage. i'm making more friendships at work and can always find people to laugh and joke with, which is nice. i also had to do a leadership check in for the school that supports me up here, tc3 (tompkins cortland community college.) i chose to speak with the manager of mine that i could more easily relate to. after speaking to him, i learned that he's only 23 and he is currently studying international business, he's done two college programs at disney, and is now doing his professional internship (where hundreds of people apply, and only seventeen are chosen,) and he has been a translator for the us embassy and hbo, and has even had his name in the credits of one of their films. he had a company whereby he and a friend of his did tours across america for tourists, especially europeans. in the past eight years, he has lived in eight different countries and he speaks four languages. and he's 23 years old. i don't think i have ever gained so much respect for one person in such a short period of time. also at work, they put up sign up sheets to get register and/or kitchen trained. i was the first person to sign up to get trained for the register so we'll see what happens. many people have told me not to do it because they say i'll hate it, but i decided not to listen to those people. and i'm going to go for it. the more i can do here the better, right?

the other night, when i came home from work, my roommates were sitting on our balcony, with music blaring and were just having a good time singing along to some of our favourite songs. of course, i had to get something and transform it into a microphone and sing my heart away until exhaustion took over in the early hours of the morning and it was time for bed. the unplanned nights are always the most fun. building 18 at vista must have hated us, but we didn't care. we just enjoyed each others company and it was lovely.
i worked for four days until sunday, and i was given another three days off. yesterday, niza and i went to magic kingdom so that i could pick up a cast member performance evaluation form from one of my leaders in my previous role. all in all, it was a really good evaluation and i didn't get any negative comments, so i'm content with it. i visited some people on main street and i was shocked that there had been some changes in such a short period of time. there were also a lot of new people that i didn't know but i saw many old friends and it was nice to see them. after that, niza and i went to tomorrowland where there were a couple things we had never done, like the people mover and the carousell of progress. we also met some characters, and i got some more signatures in my autograph book, which i am very proud of. it's filling up quite nicely. after that, she had to go to work so i headed home and slept for a little while. it was so awkward since i usually have my music playing, but unfortunately my headphones broke. i wish all of you could know what it's like to sit on a jam-packed bus, where everyone speaks a different language, and everyone tries to talk over each other. while i love the diversity of all the cultures here, sometimes it's much nicer to have music playing and to zone out for a little while. i came home and fell asleep, which was probably a bad idea, because when i actually tried to go to bed later that night, i couldn't. obviously.

today i did absolutely nothing and it was amazing. the extent of it all was when i had to go to walgreens with my roommate because she needed medicine and i needed milk. but other than that, my bed and i have been best friends. this evening a thunderstorm came out of nowhere. it was insane. we couldn't even see five feet in front of us. but it's calmed down a little bit now. i sort of wish it was still raining loud enough for me to hear, now that i am going to bed. i can't believe myself how early i'm going to sleep. but since i have been here, i have become horrible at waking up any time earlier than ten am (because like i explained to my parents today, since being here, my sleeping and eating schedule is so messed up.) but tomorrow i have to wake up at six thirty in the morning. it is going to be absolutely torturous but i am very excited because i'm going to universal with some friends. i feel like a kid the night before christmas. so excited. but that means it is time to attempt going to sleep at a decent hour. goodnight to everyone reading; i'm missing every single one of you. i can't believe i have less than two months until i am home! while i am ecstatic about this, my friends and i don't like to discuss it because that results in us getting quite emotional. we are all definitely having mixed emotions.  in fact, some of my friends' programs are coming to an end this week and next, and it's sad to have to say goodbye already to people that i've grown to love. but i hope we will all meet again sometime.

continue to be happy and count your blessings everyone. sweet dreams xoxo