Assesment Day

I had my assesment, and it was the craziest day ever! Gabby and I were late coming in because one of the older guys walked us through on a mini tour, telling us about his favorite fish. Everytime I tried to start walking away he'd talk again, I was really upset about it. Justin was the person who was assesing me and Gabby. He was great, we had a lot of fun together and traded Disney Trivia and old school Disney World memories. I hope I get to hang out with him more, we're a lot alike. But we did have a day of craziness, it seemed like everything went wrong.

So first we went to open the ride and I asked him to show us how to open the console, so he did. However, we had two people who were upset that we had taken "their" position (they're older and don't like change) and were pretty rude about it. The position is a lot of chaos. We have to test all the phones and intercoms and radios and intrusion mats, and doors. And then we had people come in from higher up who wanted to take pictures in the ride and they were setting off the mats. So there's constant noise and Gabby and I were totally lost. On top of the chaos when we went to power up it wouldn't go. We had another two people standing around putting in their two cents, it made my head want to explode. It took about 10 minutes before we realized it was something with maintenance and had to get him over to push a button on his console for us. When we finally got it taken care of we went on break number one.

After our first break we headed in to host our Turtle Talk shows which is my favorite part. I had a great show and Crush talked to me this time. It was so cool, he even knew my name. It made me act just like the kids. Well in the middle of Gabbys show we had a protien spill(vomit) in the back of the theater and then as the gentleman was leaving we had another outside the doors. Luckily we had extra bodies, so one guy escorted the gentleman out, I went to call for help and then block the spill outside the theatre and Justin blocked the one inside. We had to cancel the next show until it was cleaned up, so it was a good thing we both finished.

When we took over the positions to load the ride the camera crew showed up again. They wanted to film families getting on the ride. They of course came at the busy part of the day, and didn't tell anyone what was going on. We didn't know what they wanted so aparently we were doing it wrong, but rather than letting us know what they would like they just complained. I had a family who decided to run all the way down the belt as I was checking the console and I had to force them to go back and start again, because they'd gone past the loading point. Now it would have been nice had they clued the families in so they weren't so clueless. Then the camera crew got mad at me, and here I am testing. Craziness. Well, we left.

We headed back to Turtle talk to take over the positions outside the theatre and I had an angry guest. Aparently someone had given her wrong information about when to come back for the next show and now we were at capacity. She had an autistic child with her so they couldn't wait in the main area. I just went to get Justin immediately. We finally made her happy by doing what we'd told her we could in the first place, go figure.

I passed everything, and can now perform all of the positions. Lets hope that things don't stay so crazy. I don't mind a little excitement, but this was a little much.

So then I came home and to celebrate I went to the Magic Kingdom. Everything there seemed to time out perfectly. I walked right on to the rides I wanted. I only waited in a few lines. I came in just as they started the show on the castle stage, so I got to watch that. When I went to ride Thunder Mountain (my favorite ride) the fireworks were going off. So I got to watch the fireworks while on the ride. It was so cool. Then I returned at the end of the night to Thunder Mountain and picked the right train, nobody else was in our line so they let us stay on and ride again. It was a lot of fun.

I just spent the night enjoying everything. I was grinning from ear to ear just thinking, I can't believe that I really live here. I can do this anytime I want. This is so amazing. I also picked up a Mickey watch since the last watch I bought broke and I need one for work. And I also got my stuffed Mickey, I had never seen one like this, he's made entirely of supersoft fur and is stuffed just perfectly. I love him and it was cool to use my discount. It's summer hours now, so the park doesn't close til midnight. I left around 12:45. It gave me lots of time to enjoy.