P.S.

For those of you who don't already know...the best part of my week was that I found out I've got a new niece or nephew on the way. he or SHE is due the same month as my birthday and I'm super excited for a little niece, and ya'll can quote me, that is my prediction and I was right about Isaac! Bring on my little princess, uncle brian loves you already darling!

Some More News

On more of a not-so-serious note, thus far this experience has been a blast. I'm really getting to know all my roomates and bunch of other people really well. It's a lot of fun getting to know these people from all over the country. Since we last spoke, I've hit up the Magic Kingdom and did the Haunted Mansion, Pirates, Thunder Mountain, Snow White, Peter Pan's Flight, Philarmagic, and even caught Wishes, MK's firework show. I went to Hollywood Studios (for those of you who do not know about this historical month for Walt Disney World, they have changed their name from MGM Studios to Hollywood Studios) and the only ride I had time for before my shift was the Rockin Roller Coaster. Yesterday was really fun. Me and 3 of my roomates started at the Animal Kingdom, and rode Expedition Everest 3 times and the safari, before hopping a bus over to Epcot where we visited all the countries, and then headed over to the Contemporary Resort where we had ourselves a feast at "Chef Mickey's." It's really fun being able to go over because the one thing that I have in common with the people I've been hanging out with is that we show "Disney Love" to people even when we aren't working, it's really fun to watch each other give to other people, even when we don't have to. We had every body laughing on the safari with our jokes and enthusiasm, we made little kids happy on the monorail as we got them into the drivers seat and had them all excited, and even got a bunch of kids to play some bongos with us at one of the countries. I really enjoy showing "love" to complete strangers, it's fun watching how my job and my religion can really tie together. Being at Disney has opened my eyes to sharing my love with a whole new group of people, ones that I might not have if I didn't make it down here. God's doing some wonderful things in my life right now, and I will continue to share them with you. One last thing...I just had to share with you all my latest purchase of Mickey-Bling, gotta show love to my boss :)

Back By Popular Demand

So, it's been about a week since my last post and I've really taken a lot of heat for that. Apparently, ya'll want me to write in this thing a little more often. To make up for that I will give you a good breakdown of what I've done since the last time we talked. With being one of the few people to have their first two days of being here off, I took advantage and got a good jump on my homework. I've kept up with the pace of reading a chapter a week, and was really able to see how the content in my book was applying to my job when I started the following day. My first 3 days of work, consisted of "on the job training" with my trainer, Pam. This is a cool lady. When I first saw her, my sinful nature came through as I passed a little bit of judgement on her, but God couldn't have blessed me with anyone better. She was very upbeat and excited to train me, because she was excited with the fact that I requested to be at the art gallery. She is very passionate about art herself and really knows her trivia about many topics, mainly movies, comics, cartoons, and the three stooges (dad, you could really have some could conversation with this woman). The following 3 days I was on my own. It started a little scary and I quickly grew into the role that I must perform. Talking with people has never been a problem for me, and that is definitely the part of my job that comes easy, it's knowing all the facts about each style of art, the history of the artists, the prices and the inventory. I've gotten it a little bit more each day, and have already sold 3 pieces all on my own, it's pretty exciting. Reading about communication and leadership in my book for the first two chapters helped me keep a watch out to see if my "leaders" at disney did them the right way. For the most part they do, they listen to me and encourage me to ask questions when I have them, which I have a lot about everything, and they answer them for me. One thing that is pretty exciting and scary all at the same time, is that given my banking experience and drive to learn while I'm here, one of the managers has given me some extra responsibility. I now have the duty, when I have the closing shift, to cash out all the registers and make desposits and get the drawers ready for the next day. They want me to learn the process really quickly, and it has been pretty hard, but I'm getting it and will be closing out the stores all on my own very soon. Bring on the corporate job......! I'm going to write another, separate entry that will give you some more of my personal info, non-work related. Scroll up to read on!

Hey Ya'll

What's good everybody? I know I haven't written anything in a while, and I apologize for those of you who've been checking daily (cough, cough...Brad), but i've been extremely busy with crazy long hours and trying to finish homework assignments between then, and sometimes getting to eat. but have no fear, today is one of my two days off along with tomorrow, so after i hit up a couple parks today, i will write an elaborate entry! love to you all til later!

Only The Beginning...

My Disney experience started less than a week ago, and already I'm having the time of my life. In six days I've done so much. I've met a lot of cool and interesting people from all over our country and even many from all over the world. Disney truly brings people together, and in my eyes it brings some of the best. I've already went to Epcot Center, the Magic Kingdom, and ate at Planet Hollywood, in Downtown Disney, which is where I'll be working. I have received a job at "The Art of Disney" which is in the marketplace area. It's all the way down at the right end next to the Rainforest Cafe, for those of you who are interested in coming to visit me. I actually put in a request with my recruiter to work at this store, because when I was little the only thing on my mind was working for Disney animation making movies. I was an art major for a little bit before I chose to take my life a different way. Plus most of those great movies are digital now. However, in this place I get to be around art and animation all day long. I get to watch artists in action and I get to study it on a daily basis.

I am receiving credits back home through GVSU, and have already began to put in work time for my classes. For one of my communications classes, I was instructed to set up a blog, hence the reason you get to read up on my life for the next 4 months, maybe 7. Another thing I will be talking about in my blog, is how I can relate my working experience to concepts that I am learning about in my 'Business and Professional Communications' book, so look for some interesting facts that ya'll (I'm already picking up some southern drawl) might not know. The other thing I've already got to take part in is a non-profit organization called 'Give Kids The World'. This is a program for people who want to volunteer to work with kids who's last wish was to make a trip down to orlando. It's an organization that Disney and many surrounding companys donate heavily to. If ya'll have heard of "Make a Wish Foundation," it's strongly comparable to that. The experience was amazing, and I will be going back, not only because a class back home requires me to, but because this was a place where I can go and just show love to others, strangers at that, and kids with terminal illnesses at that. Anyways look for more information on that in the days, weeks, and months to come. Looking forward to hearing comments on this and miss ya'll very much. I'll be posting again real soon.