Hey MAYERS!!!
So sorry for not checking in with a full reply sooner, I had a nice one all ready to enter on Wednesday and the site signed me out and made me lose it all
So here's 7 days in short....
Day 1 - Check-In to Housing/CP
I started my day by taking a Taxi from CR to Vista Way to get everything checked in. I arrived there around 8:45, and there was already quite a line going, even though officially check-in was from 9am - 1pm. It took me about an hour or so to move through all of the stations of check-in. One of the first ones was housing assignments. I had really wanted to be in a 3-bedroom at Chatham, which is the newer of the two complexes. I figured a 3-bed would be ideal 1) because each bedroom has its own bathroom 2) it's cheaper than a 1 or 2-bed and 3) with a 5 other roommates, you're bound to get along with at least one of them. I got what I wanted for housing and was assigned an apartment in Chatham Square.
After finishing all of the stations, I made my way to where the busses were transferring from one complex to the other and waited for about 45 minutes while the drivers discussed how best to load the busses. Now if you're one of the ones who think that resort transportation can be a bit hairy....These guys had nothing on the resort buses. The bus I was on got lost in the 2 mile drive from Vista to Chatham, and turned the wrong way into the complex, thus going the wrong way down a one-way street. I arrived at the apartment to find that my other 5 roommates had already arrived and were getting unpacked. I met Jody, who I share a room with, and started meeting the others. I was totally surprised that one roommate was someone I was friends with on Facebook. While I was meeting people, other people from the apartments around me started coming in, and again, there were more people that I had already befriended from Facebook.
Just an aside, in our building there are three floors, with six apartments on the first floor and two apartments on the top two floors. The top two floors are basically one big group of people who pretty much all knew each other from Facebook before arriving. We all pretty much come and go from each others apartments at random now.
Now we weren't supposed to get our assignments til the next day, but a group of us had figured out how to access the computer and see where we were that morning. I didn't have a particular attraction assigned but I found out that I would be in Epcot! After getting my stuff unpacked, a group of us decided to go grab some lunch before going to our housing meeting. We went to Steak and Shake which was a new experience since we don't have those in NE, and then went to our housing meeting, which basically was to give us the rules and do's and don'ts. After getting back from the housing meeting, we all went our separate ways for a while. I rode the bus to
Walmart. The buses are very convenient, but I overestimated just how much stuff I could manage to carry back from Walmart and ended up having a hard time getting it back to my aparment.
Day 2 - Work Assignments
The first day required signing a lot of documents, but day 2 was really signing your life away. The first stop was filling out all of the government paperwork required to legally work. After that we were given our work locations. I was assigned to Epcot Future World East Attractions, which is Test Track, Mission: Space, Universe of Energy and Spaceship Earth. I kept moving through the stations until I met one of my coordinators (bosses) for Epcot, who informed me that I had been assigned to....
Mission:Space
I was nowhere near thrilled that this was my assignment, because as all of you know, I am not a fan of big, scary, fast rides (but it's much better now). My roommates include a Jungle Cruise Skipper, a Hostess at Spoodles, a Hostess at Tony's Town Square, front desk at CSR, and attractions at Voyage of the Little Mermaid and Playhouse Disney
After finishing up with all of our stations, we went back to our apartments. I was puttering around in the kitchen and was wanting to cool off my bottle of water, so I opened the freezer door to find this...
Someone had left two bottles of champagne in the freezer overnight! Oops!
That evening our apartment hosted a dinner party. At one point in the evening there were probably 20 people in and around our apartment. Our apartment has basically become the hangout for a number of people and we have a few honorary roommates that are basically welcome at any hour.
Day 3 - Traditions
Traditions was fun, except for the fact that we had to be on the bus at 6:55am after staying up really late the night before. I rode the bus with Liz (roommate), Brad, and Guy (honorary roomies). I was glad to have Liz in the group I was in, it was nice to have someone I already knew to sit with. Traditions lasted until noon, and at that point we all had our IDs, so we could all get into the parks for free. We went back to our apartments to change. Liz and I made a run to Walgreens and while we were gone, the boys decided to do laundry, so we waited for them to finish before heading to the parks.
Around 3:15, we finally arrived at DHS. The first order of business was to ride RnR, I walked the queue with them, but exitted before the ride and did the same with ToT which was next. After that we went on GMR and then the Muppets 3
show. We wanted to catch up to a few more friends that had the late Traditions class and see Wishes, so we headed over to MK. We all got there around 6:30, so we had an hour and a half to play before Wishes. We rode HM and then BTMRR! I actually rode it!!!! It scared me senseless and it took me about 10 minutes after exitting to get my footing back, but I survided it. We made our way back to Main Street and stood there in awe of Wishes as a group.
At that point, none of us had eaten since noon-ish, so we decided to grab dinner at Denny's. We had an awesome waiter, who kept bringing us soda even though we didn't order it and biscuits, and just random things. Most of us had to work the next day, so we piled back into the cars and came back to get some shuteye.
Day 4, 5, 6 - Training!!
Everyone in my apartment that was scheduled for Thursday had a morning schedule, except for me. I was scheduled to work from 1:15 til 10 that night at Mission:Space, so I took the opportunity that morning to do some laundry (yay for clean clothes!).
I arrived at the Cast building at Epcot to meet my trainer around 1, the first thing we did was get my costume....Now for those of you who have ridden M:S, did you notice how "interesting" the costumes are? They're light blue and grey with red ribbing and made completely of polyester! After suiting up, we went on a tour of the backstage areas that I am around and then went through the building as a normal guest. My trainer wanted me to go on the ride, but didn't force me to, so I managed to get as far as the loading bay and then decided to not actually ride.
We went over some of the more technical stuff regarding rides and then since the ride was slow and there was a bay that wasn't loading guests, I got to train on it instead of using the online simulations, which was a lot better. I also got to see the whole ride show without all of the ride in motion, which was nice and made me realize that I didn't ever want to ride the ride for real
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Friday and yesterday, I opened and got to operate different stations of the ride with guests, with my trainer standing by.
Day 7 - Free Day!
Today's my only day off until next Saturday (when my family gets here!), so I'm dealing with some housekeeping things around the apartment and might go to the parks later if I feel better. I started feeling sick on Wednesday with a sore throat and cold and now its just a nasty cough which nothing seems to be kicking. Other than that today's plan is to be pretty mellow.
That's my first week in a nutshell (albeit a rather large nutshell
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Bacon and eggs. We love brinner! Since we moved into the neighborhood, brinner has become a very popular meal! We have convinces everyone that you should have brinner at least once a week! 
My baseboards in the kitchen should use a touch up. They are really looking banged up.
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Until then, well I'm stuck here in PA in the snow and cold. 
. But Ds and I ride the spinning. Last time I rode with ds, one of the CMs asked, "Will you and your SISTER be riding spinning or non-spinning?" 
Well, I know that I do not look like I could be his sister, but that CM made my day! 
