I wanted to marry a Mouse - but I guess I can settle for second best. [Honeymoon PTR]

[njdisneyfreak]

I am sorry for the lack of updates lately. I have been really busy with getting ready for the new job, etc....

I also joined ChaCha in an attempt to earn some extra money.

Today, we have a meet the teacher/community bbq. It was fantastic.

I promise an update soon since I have the next two days off.

How neat that your school had a teacher/community bbq! You must be so excited about your teaching position. When do you start? Have you had a chance to set up your classrrom? Every year, I still enjoy setting up my room for the new year.

I look forward to your next update.

 

[DisneyFan06]

i am so excited that i can finally post an update. it will not be much of an update because many things have not changed - but an update is an update!

as i said, we had a meet the teacher / community bbq yesterday. i had a blast. i meet the other teachers, the staff, the parents, and even some of my future students. the school, is a charter school, so far around 200 students are enrolled. there will be two first grade teachers, and i am one of them. i had the chance to meet the other first grade teacher and i found out that we was also a male. the parents are excited because no matter what - their child will have a male first grade teacher. we all had a blast.

sadly, i have not had the chance to even see my classroom. i am excited to begin decorating it and getting in there. i have so much planned! i am having a hard time planning on what i want to do on the first day / week. it is going to take a lot of thought, i am sure. the first week, day, and even minutes into a new school year is the most important. it can either make or break a teacher. so, i am getting scared.

around two weeks ago, i was browsing the dis and i came across a thread. the owner posted that whoever was the first to pm them would receive a free gift basket for their family upon arrival. so, i did it. and it so happens, i won! i won something. so when we check in their should be a gift basket or two in the room - i am keeping it a surprise, i am not going to let stephanie know.

i also signed up to become a ChaCha guide as a way of making additional money. i got accepted and began last night. you can work any hours at any time. it is a great way to earn some extra money for disney.

wedding plans are going great, so are the honeymoon plans. no changes yet to anything - i know surprising!

 

[njdisneyfreak]

i am so excited that i can finally post an update. it will not be much of an update because many things have not changed - but an update is an update!

as i said, we had a meet the teacher / community bbq yesterday. i had a blast. i meet the other teachers, the staff, the parents, and even some of my future students. the school, is a charter school, so far around 200 students are enrolled. there will be two first grade teachers, and i am one of them. i had the chance to meet the other first grade teacher and i found out that we was also a male. the parents are excited because no matter what - their child will have a male first grade teacher. we all had a blast.

sadly, i have not had the chance to even see my classroom. i am excited to begin decorating it and getting in there. i have so much planned! i am having a hard time planning on what i want to do on the first day / week. it is going to take a lot of thought, i am sure. the first week, day, and even minutes into a new school year is the most important. it can either make or break a teacher. so, i am getting scared.

around two weeks ago, i was browsing the dis and i came across a thread. the owner posted that whoever was the first to pm them would receive a free gift basket for their family upon arrival. so, i did it. and it so happens, i won! i won something. so when we check in their should be a gift basket or two in the room - i am keeping it a surprise, i am not going to let stephanie know.

i also signed up to become a ChaCha guide as a way of making additional money. i got accepted and began last night. you can work any hours at any time. it is a great way to earn some extra money for disney.

wedding plans are going great, so are the honeymoon plans. no changes yet to anything - i know surprising!

Sounds great! What is a ChaCha guide? The basket thing is cool.

I am part of our school district's mentoring committee and have a lot of available resources for new teachers, online. If you're interested, PM me and I can send you the links. I understand how hard the start of a first year teacher's school year can be, and I love helping new teachers. I've mentored four teachers in my eleven years, put together a website for new teachers, helped develop our mentoring handbook and have a ton of website links you might find useful. Let me know if I can be of help.

 

[Disney8704]

Hey Chris!! I did some more installments on my pre trip report.

 

[mousescrapper]

Hi Chris,
finally back to read some more!!

megga congrats to both of you and the huge weight loss success and post congratulations on your graduation and now upcoming teaching job...how super exciting. Now I thought you said you'd be a K teacher, but now 1st grade? did it change? either way what a fun age. My middle DD starts K in just 3 weeks.

See some notes below too:

good morning. i just got off the phone with disney and did a minor upgrade.

orginally, we were planning on staying december 22 - 27 with dining plan and four regular one-day tickets. today, we changed that. because i have read about the many adventures that happes at WCC, it made me want to eat there more. last trip, we wanted to eat at WCC but it was booked - so we had to settle on trails end. dont get me wrong we loved it, but we wanted WCC. i just got off the phone adding an extra day to our reservation. so, here is our knew plan -

december 21 - 27
pop century, standard
disney dining plan
annual tickets

yes, finally - we are going to upgrade to annual tickets. this is something we should have done long ago, but were finally doing it. we are not purchasing the tickets until later in the planning process but everything is really much done - except for the packing and minor planning that still needs to be complete.

we wanted our trip to be special because it is our honeymoon, so we orginally wanted to eat at CRT our first night. things got changed when we noticed all the other resturants around the world and seen what they all had to offer. here is what things look like as of now -

december 21 - we check in at pop century. we relax. we have a reservation at WCC for 4:30. after, we are going to head over to the camp fire and sing along.

december 22 - key to the kingdom tour in the morning. columbia harbor house for lunch (included). 'Ohana for dinner at 7:40. we are going to watch wishes from there. I love Columbia HH do you eat upstairs its so quiet up there! and as you know we stayed at Poly in June and we watched Wishes from the beach one night...if I could suggest something...try bumping your ADR up a bit, to ensure you can get outside in time and maybe snag a hamock between some palms...how romantic could that be!!!!
december 23 - epcot. we are going to do future world in the am and go to biergarten for lunch at 1:45 this includes the candelight processional package for the 5:00 show. we will eat dinner at the c.s resturant in mexico from there we will watch illuminations. Hey just word to the wise, we tried to eat at the CS cantina too...we did but after scoping out a table (we were stnading around almost 20+ min (I felt like a vulture) and then wehen the show started everyone stood up and crowded toward the railing so it was hard to see anyways...so good luck!
december 24 - hollywood studios. we will eat breakfast at pop century and quickly head over to the studios. our mission is to first get on toy story mania. You will love this ride!!! Though it does warn agianst pregnant women I think...it has a lap style bar that comes down, so depending on how big Stephanies baby-bump is it may be uncomfortable for her, you do spin and jerk around to each "playing station" hope she can ride though if so get a FP and go agian! we have reservations at 50 prime time cafe for 5:45. we are looking forward to this meal, but it does not include the fantasmic package. we will do the later showing of fantasmic.

decemer 25 - crystal palace reservations at 8:10. from there we will stay in the magic kingdom. we will stay there all day. we orginally wanted to go back to the resort but we heard that the park may fill to capacity and we would not be allowed back in. we have christmas dinner planned for 6:45 at liberty tree tavern. oh, lets not forget the 12:30 christmas parade. and the fireworks. This day sound super great, can't wait to hear about it! I at a CP for the 1st time this past trip and loved walking in the park practically empty!
december 26 - off day. we plan on eating lunch at either wolfgang puck express or earl of sandwich using a c.s. credit. we will go look at the decorations at the mk resorts. we may rent a mice boat or do something fun. then, we will head to boma for our dinner reservations at 6:20. we dont know what we will do after this, prob go back to the resort and relax.

december 27 - eat breakfast. express checkout and drive to animal kingdom. we will spend the day at animal kigdom and eat at flame tree bbq. when the park closes at 8 we will drive home back to reality in good ole daytona beach, florida.

this is how it appears to be for now. i am sure things may change - we are skeptical about biergarten but were willing to give it a try. we are doing many firsts on this trip, were excited it is going to be a wild ride.

now, i must head off to work. i will share more details later. have a magical day.

I ditto the what is a CHaCha guide?

and hey did you find your camera yet?

and I love the rings just gorgeous!

 

[njdisneyfreak]

Where are you? I hope you're just busy with your first teaching job. Waiting for more posts.