I've arrived!

Well I can officially say I am living in Orlando, Florida! We arrived wednesday around 5.00pm, the flight wasn't too bad and saying goodbye to my family wasn't as awful as I expected it to be. When we got to the airport unfortunately we had to wait for nearly an hour for our bags to come off the plane, they wouldn't open the ramps as the weather was so bad outside. Once we got our bags we had to go to the Mears Desk where they arranged for a car to take us to the welcome pavillion. For some reason that took another hour and we didn't end up getting to Disney until 9.00pm!

At the welcome pavillion we had a short presentation and were given some information and an itinerary of what we are doing this week. We were then shown to our apartments. I am in apartment 1633 with two Japenese girls and an Italian girl, they are all really nice. When I got to the apartment the girls weren't there as they were all at work which I was quite pleased about as I was sooo tired!

I then met with the girls I flew over with because we had to go to Walmart to buy some bedding before we could go to bed!! Fortunately Beth has a friend already here who has a car so he drove us there and advised us what to get. We were feeling like zombies by this time! When I got back my roommates were back so we all introduced ourselves and they seemed very excited I was from the UK! After making my bed I literally fell into it and ended up going to sleep about 1.45!

We had to meet at the Clubhouse at 8.50 the next day and we were all still completely jetlagged! We had fill out lots of paperwork and we also had a presentation about security etc. We had a break for lunch and us girls wandered over to the food court at the shopping outlet and had some food. We then had to be back to get on a coach to the pavillion where we had the welcome the night before to fill out more paperwork and have our photos taken for our ID cards. The photo is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen! lol The humidity is so not good for your hair or make up! lol

After that they discussed the 'Disney look' with us individually. She told me my highlights were not subtle enough and I had to dye my hair before saturday! I was absoloutly gutted! She gave me a list of salons and fortunately we had the afternoon off so I contacted the one she advised was professional but expensive, there was no way I was going for a cheapy one! They could fit me in at 3.30pm so I had a quick call home and then the girls and I got a cab to the salon. I was soooo scared because I decided to go back to brunette as it would be hassle if my roots keep coming through. Fortunately the hairdresser was great and was very experienced with dealing with Disney staff who need their hair dying last minute! So now I am brunette and I'm not sure about it but I don't really have a choice! I had to pre-warn Dad about the cost as when my credit card bill (for emergencies) comes through I think he may have a panic attack!

The girls and I were very tired still by the time we got back so we unpacked, had a shower and came to my apartment and ordered pizza. I was in bed by 11!

We have the morning off today so i'm off to the internet room in abit to print something off and at 12.30 we have another presentation! I'm hoping we'll find out about our bank details. I'm not sure what is happening tonight but I think we may have our throw-in which i'm not looking forward too! Tomorrow we have a day off so we are going to go to Universal Studios- yay! And saturday is our first day of 'work' or rather we go to what they call Traditions which is our training for when we start work.