Wooo! I'm a WDW cast member!

Post by **addlema** » Sep Sun 10, 2006 7:54 am

So.. Where are you lodged and whats your actual job now acp?

Post by **acp** » Sep Sun 10, 2006 5:38 pm

Well I've now checked into my accomodation. I'm in Vista Way

I don't knwo where I'm working yet, though.

Me and two others went to WalMart earlier. This was the end result:
http://www.andrewpoole.org.uk/disney/misc/walmart.jpg

Cheers,

Andy.

Post by **addlema** » Sep Mon 11, 2006 7:12 am

Sweet! Welcome to America and your first trip to Walmart

I prefer Target though

foldmama · Post by **foldmama** » Sep Mon 11, 2006 10:38 am

Andy. Welcome to the US! Your picture of your Walmart shopping carts gave me a good giggle! I think I am the only person born and raised in the US that has never been to a Walmart! Looking forward to your posts!

Post by **subsonic** » Sep Mon 11, 2006 10:56 am

Andy, next time you take pics, you better be in them. (Who takes a pics of just the carts sheesh!)

It's a bummer I'm not a millionare and can't come out to see you.

Lion Sleeps Tonight · Post by **Lion Sleeps Tonight** » Sep Mon 11, 2006 12:27 pm

Welcome to the U.S.!

Wal-Mart(or Super Target) will probably be your best friend. It's open 24 hours, and the busses take you right there(up until 2am, I think)!

Keep us posted!

Post by **acp** » Sep Mon 11, 2006 2:16 pm

Whee. Just finished the first day of registration and the like, which all went well. The room we were in in the Commons for the presentations this morning was absolutely freezing cold, though.. It was a relief to get back outside into the heat!!

The only bit that didn't go to plan was the registration for the cast portal, which me and a couple of others were told to go back on Thursday, since someone messed up our details on them

The rest of the people in our arrival group got here a little later in the day yesterday, and some of us met up for a quick bite to eat in the House of Blues in Downtown Disney, and then we had a nice little wander round. There's a few photos I took on my site now at http://www.andrewpoole.org.uk/disney/photos/dtd1/

At the moment, nothing is planned for tonight, although I might go for another wander round Downtown Disney and see the bits that I didn't see last night.. And see if I can find a nice enough looking lanyard to put my property ID in

Andy.

Edit:Quick photo update from this afternoon, which I spent wandering round Downtown Disney. http://www.andrewpoole.org.uk/disney/photos/dtd2/ - They're slightly better quality than last night's

Andy. Off back to Downtown Disney shortly for an evening at PI.

Post by **sockfire** » Sep Tue 12, 2006 1:05 am

This is fun reading about your journey so far.

Thanks for including us, we're living it through you.

Keep it up!

Post by **acp** » Sep Tue 12, 2006 7:15 am

Good morning!

I'll adjust to the time difference soon and stop getting up stupidly early.. Just in time to need to get up early for Traditions, or something...

I don't know how I woke up so early today, I didn't get back from a night out at Pleasure Island until 2am this morning

We started off in BET Soundstage, which was a bit empty, so we headed out again a short time later to the Adventurer's Club. We didn't go through the show stuff because by the time we got there, they couldn't fit us in the room without splitting us up (there were 5 of us and they'd have to have put us as two 2s and a 1, and we didn't want to put someone on their own), so we moved on to 8Trax, where we found some of the other people from our program and stayed for a while before moving along again to the Beach Club for a short time before I left to catch the bus back to Vista Way (the others are staying elsewhere so were getting a later bus).

Today involves some more registration and paperwork, I think. The welcome booklet thingie they gave us says we find out where we work on day 2, but I'm not sure if we will or not. I did, however, see on one of the registration sheets yesterday something like "Quick Serv F&B Outdoor", so I might be outdoors somewhere

Will have to wait and see!

foldmama · Post by **foldmama** » Sep Tue 12, 2006 12:00 pm

Andy; Enjoying your journal and pictures so much already. I must admit that it's getting me so excited about my November trip!

bbowen13 · Post by **bbowen13** » Sep Tue 12, 2006 12:04 pm

Andy,
I too am enjoying your updates.

Thanks for keeping us posted.

packwingfn · Post by **packwingfn** » Sep Tue 12, 2006 4:24 pm

I am very excited to read about your experience. I hope I will be doing this a year from now.

Was there a live band playing at the Beach club? I saw them in August and they were a real good cover band, I just forgot their name, does anyone know their name at all?

Post by **acp** » Sep Tue 12, 2006 9:47 pm

Evening all. Just returned from an hour or so at Epcot - my first WDW park

We didn't get there until late, but we did ride Test Track and Soarin' before watching Illuminations. I've put some photos on my site at http://www.andrewpoole.org.uk/disney/photos/epcot/ although some of them are blurry. I'm going to download a copy of the manual for my camera so that I can work out how I can change the mode it uses so it can take photos of lit up things in the dark without having to use the slow shutter mode that makes it go all blurry.

I've got a few short videos of Illuminations that I took with my camera, however I don't think I've got enough webspace to be able to put them on my website. I'll have to have a think of how I can solve this.

I've put one of the short videos from Illuminations on my site at http://www.andrewpoole.org.uk/disney/mi ... ations.avi for the time being. We were standing towards the back of the showcase plaza, but still had a fairly good view of the show.

And finally, I now know where I'll be working. I'll be working in Outdoor Foods in Disney-MGM Studios.

Cheers,

Andy.

Post by **js3901** » Sep Wed 13, 2006 10:10 am

try putting the video(s) on youtube.com or something like that. once you have it hosted there, you can actually get a code to embed the video/player on your website.

BTW, love the pics. I'm snagging some of them to use for desktop wallpapers.

Post by **subsonic** » Sep Wed 13, 2006 10:36 am

Awesome Andy, seems like you're having a good time. But you missed my post where you need to get shots of yourself and friends in them. We've all seen pictures of the attractions before. How can we be sure you're really there?