DisneyRed95
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Jul 29, 2010
so cool!! So you were just a few years behind me. I worked at Hollywood and Vine Cafeteria- they were only open for breakfast/lunch back then and it was cafeteria style dining, no characters. It was hard work (lots of bussing tables, serving food cafeteria lady style to non-english speaking guests- playing sign language back and forth!). Two of my roomies were on their second program as well and in fact, the one still works there, 14 years later.....yep, so much for her finishing college! The other ended up working in guest relations and later Disney Weddings and her ex-partner was one of the Disney World ambassadors in the early 2000s too (they only pick 2 per year). At least the rest of us went back and finished college. How was working in transportation? Did you live in Vista Way? Here is a pic of my lovely costume from back in the day. This was me goofing off in costume at the apartment! did you have good roomies? Mine were the best- still keep in touch with all 5 and our neighbors from across the hall too.
I love the picture! Trust me, I have similar ones! I still keep in touch with most of my roomies from the second program and we're actually trying to organize a reunion trip one of these days. Transportation was tough at first. I wasn't very excited about being placed there and having to drive the trams, but it grew on me. (And I got a pretty good tan that summer! ) I actually lived at Chatham both times. I think it opened in 2000. It was a nice place, but there were 8 of us in one apartment, which always made things interesting. I love coming across current College Program kids at WDW and chatting with them about my experience. I'm definitely glad I did the program.