Wonders10
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Im not going to lie folks. I dont exactly have the best track record when it comes to finishing trip reports. In my few years on the DIS, Ive started 3 trip reports and finished 0!!! 
And they arent even super long trips. Typically I think I just get in a Disney funk you know, the Disney blues? And it just gets too darn sad to play on the DIS. And then when I finally do return to the boards, it just seems silly for me to finish, months later after no updates at all.
Thats my story and Im sticking to it.
So that brings me to this trip. Im attempting for the 4th time to write a TR. And Im not going to put a ton of pressure on myself to update it everyday and finish it in lightning speed. This may be a good strategy to actually completing a trippie.
We shall see.
With all that said, I hope you will stick with me through my TR. So lets get started.
The cast of this trip includes ME! And me alone. Thats right everyone. This here is a solo trip. My first actually. I may/probably will be meeting a friend of mine who lives in Orlando for a little bit, but for the most part it will be me and the world. Im a native Floridian (born and currently living in Ft. Lauderdale). Im a recent grad school graduate, waiting for my masters degree in speech-language pathology to be conferred and all my certification/licensure paperwork to be completed. It took 3.5 years and I never thought Id see this day.
The past few months have been a little, shall we say, stressfull. I started my last internship in January at a rehab hospital. Started out ok. I love hospitals and thought I would love working in one. Then one day I got a call that my dad had passed away. While I was driving home from work no less. He had been very sick with cancer, but still his death was actually rather sudden. We had had a distant relationship, however, losing a parent is definitely hard.
So while I was grieving on the inside (because Im stubborn and hold all of my emotions inside), I was back at work, trying to be little miss perfect intern. Wasnt happening apparently. More than once my supervisor gave me some not so comforting or kind words of constructive criticism. I began to dread getting up in the morning to head off to work. The f word was even thrown around. Personally, I think she was threatening me more than actually thinking I deserved to fail. Finally the semester ended. We sat down to discuss my grade. And I passed!
At the end of the day, I did learn a lot and Im a better SLP because of it, however I still do not agree with some of her supervisor strategies and the fact that she wanted me to be exactly like her which wasnt going to happen. Yikes, bitter much?
Oops, getting ahead of myself a wee bit. Somewhere around March, aka when I began hating life, I stumbled across my annual pass while doing a little cleaning up. Hmm, it expires May 18. My mom and I already had a cruise booked in April to celebrate completing grad school so a huge trip to Disney really wasnt in the cards. I knew I wasnt going to be working in May since I would have just finished school.
Yet the wheels in my head began to turn. I hate being alone, yet I love Disney world and felt like a few days in the world solo wouldnt be so terrible. Ok, who am I kidding. I thought it would be freakin' awesome! My mom (who usually accompanies me on my Disney trips) was not really interested in heading back to Disney or the idea of boarding our dog again, so soon after our cruise. I have a good friend that lives in Orlando who I could spend some time with too.
One morning I arrived at work, aka hell, early. I most definitely was not going to go inside early so I decided I would call Disney reservations and see about booking a room. It went something like this:
Me: Hi, Im in danger of failing grad school, my supervisor hates me, Im questioning everything I ever thought I wanted in a career and I want to hide under a rock for the next 7 weeks. Can you help me?
Disney Cast Member: Of course! We have Pop Century available with an AP discount.
Me: Ill take it!
And so it was that I booked 3 nights at Pop Century May 15-18th. Solo.
P.S. This TR will have pics, just not tonight. I'm trying to find some recent ones and have to upload them. Oh and I'm not so sure about the title of the TR, but it'll do for now.
Thanks for reading!
And they arent even super long trips. Typically I think I just get in a Disney funk you know, the Disney blues? And it just gets too darn sad to play on the DIS. And then when I finally do return to the boards, it just seems silly for me to finish, months later after no updates at all.Thats my story and Im sticking to it.
So that brings me to this trip. Im attempting for the 4th time to write a TR. And Im not going to put a ton of pressure on myself to update it everyday and finish it in lightning speed. This may be a good strategy to actually completing a trippie.
We shall see.With all that said, I hope you will stick with me through my TR. So lets get started.
The cast of this trip includes ME! And me alone. Thats right everyone. This here is a solo trip. My first actually. I may/probably will be meeting a friend of mine who lives in Orlando for a little bit, but for the most part it will be me and the world. Im a native Floridian (born and currently living in Ft. Lauderdale). Im a recent grad school graduate, waiting for my masters degree in speech-language pathology to be conferred and all my certification/licensure paperwork to be completed. It took 3.5 years and I never thought Id see this day.
The past few months have been a little, shall we say, stressfull. I started my last internship in January at a rehab hospital. Started out ok. I love hospitals and thought I would love working in one. Then one day I got a call that my dad had passed away. While I was driving home from work no less. He had been very sick with cancer, but still his death was actually rather sudden. We had had a distant relationship, however, losing a parent is definitely hard.
So while I was grieving on the inside (because Im stubborn and hold all of my emotions inside), I was back at work, trying to be little miss perfect intern. Wasnt happening apparently. More than once my supervisor gave me some not so comforting or kind words of constructive criticism. I began to dread getting up in the morning to head off to work. The f word was even thrown around. Personally, I think she was threatening me more than actually thinking I deserved to fail. Finally the semester ended. We sat down to discuss my grade. And I passed!
At the end of the day, I did learn a lot and Im a better SLP because of it, however I still do not agree with some of her supervisor strategies and the fact that she wanted me to be exactly like her which wasnt going to happen. Yikes, bitter much? Oops, getting ahead of myself a wee bit. Somewhere around March, aka when I began hating life, I stumbled across my annual pass while doing a little cleaning up. Hmm, it expires May 18. My mom and I already had a cruise booked in April to celebrate completing grad school so a huge trip to Disney really wasnt in the cards. I knew I wasnt going to be working in May since I would have just finished school.
Yet the wheels in my head began to turn. I hate being alone, yet I love Disney world and felt like a few days in the world solo wouldnt be so terrible. Ok, who am I kidding. I thought it would be freakin' awesome! My mom (who usually accompanies me on my Disney trips) was not really interested in heading back to Disney or the idea of boarding our dog again, so soon after our cruise. I have a good friend that lives in Orlando who I could spend some time with too.
One morning I arrived at work, aka hell, early. I most definitely was not going to go inside early so I decided I would call Disney reservations and see about booking a room. It went something like this:
Me: Hi, Im in danger of failing grad school, my supervisor hates me, Im questioning everything I ever thought I wanted in a career and I want to hide under a rock for the next 7 weeks. Can you help me?
Disney Cast Member: Of course! We have Pop Century available with an AP discount.
Me: Ill take it!
And so it was that I booked 3 nights at Pop Century May 15-18th. Solo.
P.S. This TR will have pics, just not tonight. I'm trying to find some recent ones and have to upload them. Oh and I'm not so sure about the title of the TR, but it'll do for now.
Thanks for reading!
I'm on board whether you finish or not. 
I've been around through your "tough" year, so I want to be here when you celebrate with the Mouse. 
but you DESERVE this trip by yourself. To do what YOU want to do. After all you survived the supervisor from HE double hockey sticks! I think you are precious in both pics.
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