Walt Disney. I think I might be in love with him. Hey there, blog-friends. I must apologize for my prolonged absence, but life has been so terribly diverting, I lost track of chronicling my adventures, and I do apologize!
I have, of course, been spending the majority of my time at work, getting to know my coworkers and becoming more skilled and experienced in my area, all while being just as endearing as humanly possible. It's been fun, but exhausting at the same time. However, I think I may finally have the balance down between work and play. I'm getting better at making sure that I'm doing both.
Recently I've taken in quite a few movies at the local theater, enjoyed the parks - especially Star Wars weekends at Hollywood Studios, took a rather spontaneous trip to Daytona Beach, pretended to live in Ikea, and tomorrow we're heading to New Smyrna to celebrate my roommate's birthday. We're really starting to learn how to do it all here.
I took two seminar classes during the Spring semester, one on Disney Heritage and one on the life of a Disney show, and I truly loved them both. They were really excellent opportunities to just broaden my experiential knowledge and to get exposure to things in Disney that I love. This summer, I'm taking an actual collegiate course with papers, tests, the whole kit and caboodle - even homework! But, it's all about self marketing, how to build your own brand, how to interview and really just present yourself in the best possible light so as to excel when entering the job market and chasing down your dream job. It's been incredibly entertaining thus far, my teacher has an enormous amount of energy and so it's a pleasure to be in class, even if it is for four hours at a time. I'm learning a lot about myself, some of which I like and some of which I work on, so it's personally beneficial, as well as academically.
I'm starting to think about school again - it'll be here before I know it, because we're on the short side of the Disney scale now. I've been here for just over four months and have just about two left. It's hard to imagine leaving, but it was hard to imagine living here. I'll adjust, but everyday I'm more sure that I'll be down here just as often as I can be during the next several years. I may be physically far, but Disney will truly never be far from my heart.
Trivia time! I'm currently falling back in love with the movie Pete's Dragon, so today's Disney trivia is from that. The movie was originally intended to be a musical. Al Kasha and Joel Hiershorn were hired to write "Candle on the Water" and it was so well received, the studio kept them on and made the movie into the musical delight that it is today. And now you know. (and if you've never seen Pete's Dragon, for shame, go rent it immediately - it's a heartwarming one with some good old fashion slapstick humor)
