Time bloody flies here! Been here for two weeks now and feels pretty normal. The most bizarre thing is feeling cold when the temperature is below 22 degrees and FREEZING if its below 20! Its a bit of a nightmare remembering what I did on each particular day so will try my best to keep this in order...
Wednesday - First day of work at the Rose & Crown! I was doing seating which is basically taking the guests who have already checked in, to their table. They are checked in by the "greeter" who takes all their details and gives them a pager, when their table is ready then a receipt is printer off by the assigner (person who assigns guests to specific tables). So the seater just waits for receipt to print out and that tells you where to take them and you have a bit of a chat while you take them to their table and give them menus. Not difficult. The table numbers are pretty easy to learn as well. Really enjoyed it and got into the swing of it pretty quickly :) I also did a bit of chippy filling and opening chippy as there was a slight staff shortage early on.
Thursday - I was doing another seater shift from 3pm till close and saw quite a lot of Illuminations while closing up which ain't too bad! Rushed home from work to get ready really quickly to get the taxi to Cowboys again. Only me and Harriet went that night as everyone else was too tired, etc and was another fun night :)
Friday - Day off!!! Was a little bit rough from the night before and me, Scott and Jess all had the day off so chilled by the pool for a couple of hours and then went back to the apartment to get quickly ready again. Then met back with Jess and headed off to Hollywood Studios! I was so excited lol! The park was pretty quiet and we did the Little Mermaid, The Muppets, Star Tours as walk ons and then did Rock & Rollercoaster which was about a 25 minute wait. I love that ride!!! And our photo was HILARIOUS, the kid behind us looked so terrified. Tried getting a photo of it but it got too much glare. Sad face! Then we went to get hotdogs and did some wandering about the shops before going to see Fantasmic.
Saturday - Day off round 2! Me, Scott, Jess and Laura (from the Canadian arrivals group) all went to Animal Kingdom and then Harriet and Rachel met up with us. Did lots of attractions including Dinosaur, Expedition Everest, Festival of the Lion King and Kilimanjaro Safari. Also did the Kali River Rapids and got ridiculously wet! It was a bit of a cold and drizzly day so not the best time to be completely drenched! We went back to our apartments and got quickly ready (this a theme round here!) to go to Applebees for 2 for 1 drinks :) Was a good chilled night, needed it!
Sunday - Back to work! Did a greeter shift today which was good, I like to know what's going on and it's a good way of interacting with the guests as well. There is quite often a bit of a language barrier though and I usually need people to spell their surnames before I get them right! It also rained pretty heavy which meant moving most of the podium into the pub but myself and Claire (my trainer) had to stay outside under the tarp. We got WET!! The back of our skirts got completely soaked just from water flashing up and the material of the skirt is super absorbant. Was soooooooo glad to get finished and get changed when I got home! When I finished work I got changed quickly again to go to House of Blues (HOB) which was another eye opening experience. Guys having proper dance offs all over the place haha!
Monday - Had a beer cart/stocker shift today. This meant being trained in setting up the beer cart and then serving guests, using the till and pouring the drinks. I love a bit of bar service so I quite enjoyed this! It wasn't terribly busy though which was a bit rubbish as time goes faster and is more enjoyable when it's busy. The second half of the shift was stocking for the beer cart, certain items for the pub and chippy condiments. This does involve a lot of walking about between fridges and different areas to get stock and means changing kegs and gas. The gas and kegs I've done a million times before so didn't take much learning, more like showing me where everything was. The weather did change though and get raining on and off which meant wearing one of the oh-so-lovely raincoats. It gets hot inside those!! I was working from 11am until 9:30pm and managed to get finished before 9:30pm so we could rush home and yet again quickly get changed! We were going to our first Lasses, which was a last (meaning people are leaving) Can't divulge on the nights activities but it wasn't as scary as some people make it out to be and was a lot of fun :)
Tuesday - Did a greeter shift until 5pm and was pretty uneventful! Hasn't been too busy in the parks at the moment so have been taking lots of walk in's. Was really tired after work but really needed to make a trip to Walmart so me and Jen headed off... and just missed the bus! Which means waiting an hour for the second bus :( So we chilled by the pool for a bit before getting the bus and going a bit crazy in the frozen food aisle lol! Got home and had a quick munch before literally crashing out as my head hit my pillow!
Wednesday - Back to greeter! Was strange to open podium by myself but was all good and helped to open the beer cart as well. Again it wasn't a particularly busy day and I was only meant to work from 11-5 but got ER'd (early release) at around 2:30pm so hurried home quickly to get changed and then me and Jen headed to Magic Kingdom as she had the day off and no plans! We managed to get quite a few rides done including Splash Mountain, Space Mountain and Pirates of the Carribean and then Laura joined us to get food from Caseys and camp out on the street for Wishes :) Came home and tried to get to bed ASAP as I had a really early start the next day.
Thursday - Today! We had to go to the Social Security offices today to get our SS number which is required within 30days of starting work. So we had to get up at 5am to go over to the Commons Clubhouse to pick up paperwork and get on a coach to take us their. We go in before the general public so it has to be that early! Due to my nifty planning I got our little group to get our paperwork first and seen first so we were back to the Commons pretty quickly. We then made a group decision to go quickly to Animal Kingdom as not everyone had been yet and then come back, get changed and go to Typhoon Lagoon as its hot weather. Ended up staying at Animal Kingdom and I got MEGA tired after lunch time. When we headed home the bus that was due had broken down and so took even longer to get home :( I had to nap when I got in but didn't get a good sleep as it was too hot. Still feeling pretty ropey so just trying to chill tonight. Got tomorrow off as well and not due in till Saturday at 4pm so will see what tomorrow brings!
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