A Quick Hello!

I'm back!!! I finally got a new computer so I plan to be more active now. Needless to say I am near the end of my college program and my wonderful year here at Walt Disney World. But do not fret because the Island Mouse isnt ready to say goodbye to the Happiest Place on Earth just yet! This May I begin a new position in a new location and I am beyond excited for it. It will be incredibly bittersweet to leave my DVC family, but I know that this next oppurtunity will be magical. So stay tuned folks!

-Tyl

#CAClife: Part 1

Hola! 

WARNING: Okay so first things first, I am like the girl who cried blog but now this is it I am finally going to post this, excuse my grammar I probably wont be able to proofread this! 

So now that I have been here for a couple of months I guess it is time I finally tell you all how life in the most fun branch of recreation is treating me! You guessed it I am a Children's Activities Cast Member! Well you probably already knew that if you have roamed around the island mouse before, but anyways I am a CAC! Let me tell you something when your job is literally all fun and games, things get real! So since I work in a Disney Vacation Club resort there are two sides to the coin, Poolside Activities and Community Hall. This post will be all about poolside! 

This is the first training you receive, poolside activities! Basically this is all the entertainment that happens in the pool or by the pool deck starting at 1 pm in the resorts and then continues with the nightly campfire followed by the movie under the stars. When your training consists of tie-dying shirts,playing with a giant beach ball and watching a movie you know your job is going to be a blast! 

A typical day for me, and this is for my resorts it depends on your location, but for me I start my day with a quick meeting, followed by gathering all my materials and heading outside! This could be at either be at noon or at 2 o'clock.  That is where the fun begins, armed with my sunblock and water bottle I am ready to take on the whole afternoon in this Central Florida heat! On the pool deck we have pool party, trivia games and different activities going on. When its time to end the pool party we go on break and then head to prep our campfire. Campfire is then held nightly and after that we head over to prep our movie! Setting up the movie screen and taking it down seemed very intimidating at first but after so much practice you get the hang of it and can do it in around 15 mins or less! So that is a short over view of what a typical day poolside looks like, there are two of us outside and opener and a closer, so a lot of the day is spent with someone else which is amazing, because I don't know how you could ever do this all on your own! On the next post I will explain Community Hall and how the game changes when you are indoors. 

If you guys have any questions feel free to ask them on here as comments or post them to my tumblr page by the same name! I am off to work as the closer tonight! 

See you all real soon,

-Tyl

Quick Update!

Hey!

I decided to add a Page to my blog that I will be updating as I go this will have all discounts on and off property for Cast Members,  because the blue ID has so many perks that go along with it around this area. Also, since I haven't found many blogs with my same role I decided I will include that in a lot of my future posts but most importantly I will be including any of your questions! I have a log of questions from friends and other bloggers that I will be answering in the coming days/weeks!

-Tyl

Out of the Rabbits Hole!

Hola Everyone!

First off I want to apologize for being MIA for this last month, all I did was work and sleep and attempt to squeeze in a little bit of fun to my days off! But now that I am fully trained in all aspects of my job, I started my seminar and I turned 22 it's time to get back on the writing scene. So from here on out I will try to update y'all once a week, I am aiming for posting every Thursday so I will do that, in between I may be posting about the specifics, like my role, different events on property, what to do in Orlando, random adventures and anything else you want to read about. Also I ressurrected my instagram again, so feel free to follow @theislandmouse on instagram and you will find a picture tour of my day to day as a CP.  So that was my little PSA, I am actually heading to class right now so stay magical everyone! Ill leave you with this silly picture of my roommate and I our first day at the Magic Kingdom!

Check In and Other Shenanigans!

Hola! 

Just like that those 21 days went by extremely fast, I know I have been MIA since the last post but I had to strap down and power through my finals and the last week of school. Since then I graduated undergrad and made it safely up here to Orlando. I have been here for three days and it has been absolutely lovely, I want to keep this post short since i have to head to bed soon because of the early wake up call I have tomorrow for Traditions, but I will talk a little bit about my first few days. 

So I arrived bright and early on Monday morning and Vista Way, 15 minutes before my scheduled time of 8:00 am. I grabbed a program guide and was given a name tag sticker. The line was quite short and I don't think it took us more than 30 mins to come in the building and receive the first thing, your label with your official assignment on it. I had a fluorescent yellow sticker with my official Recreation Assignment: Children's Activities and the Resort were I was placed at. When she placed the sticker on the back of my program guide I almost cried, my placement could not be more perfect if I tried. From then we made another line and here we had or DORMS passed scanned, took the picture for our Housing ID and then received our room key. After that we received our housing ID and a piece of paper with the instructions and times for your casting, drug test,language test and the housing meeting. 

After that we were whisked off to Casting, and of course with that came all the fun of being in the bus doing the awesome countdown and heading into the building, once in the building though we did a couple of more serious things, like fill out paperwork receive our official training schedule and be finger printed. After coming back I had to do a drug test, now this is something that all CPs working lifeguard, recreation or attraction roles must do, this must be passed in order to proceed to Traditions and the rest of your training. That was that, I used the rest of Monday to move in to our lovely apartment in Chatham Square, and then all the girls in the apartment decided to head out to Downtown Disney! 

Home Sweet Home! 

Tuesday was quite a slow day with no plans except for our housing meeting, this was a very thorough presentations of the Do's and Dont's of Disney Housing. A lot of going over dorm rules, which seemed pretty obvious to me because I was an RA for three years, but a lot of people still had questions, which made the meeting last a little longer than expected. All in all it was harmless and pretty fun as well.  Then today Wednesday we had our Ariel's Grotto Pool Party over in the Commons Pool, which had a DJ and free food. This was a lot of fun and a nice event for new and current CPs to interact with each other! I made a couple of new friends from it and it was great!!  The rest of the afternoon was spent in Downtown Disney exploring and then coming back fro dinner. Now I am heading off to bed since I have to wake up in six hours so I wont miss the bus to Traditions, which will be covered in the next post. All in all these last three days have been swell! 

See ya real soon! 

Life until Check In!

Hola!

There are 21 days left until check-in, but 12 days until I am done with school for good. This will be the craziest week academically that I have with the amounts of lab reports, papers and test I have to work on and then the following week is finals week, which is even more dreadful. Anyways with that I must say that I don't think I will be able to blog for the next two weeks even though I might try to in order to distract myself from all the work. I wont, I will not...yeah. 

An update on the DCP frontier, I was able to register for my class, Exploring Disney Heritage so if you are taking that this Summer 1 term, let me know!! Also I have all my roommates which happened a long time ago but I never posted about it. As of now my best friend is set to to join me on this DCP adventure only a month late as a lifeguard! I was able to complete all of my New Hire Paperwork, which guys listen to Disney, don't think about doing it on Chrome it won't work. Now we are just waiting on our DORMS paperwork to get here, and I might do a mini update on that. Anyways I should get back to studying for my two test tomorrow.

-Tyl 

Unscheduled Interruption: Animated Disney Movie Challenge

Now that I am exactly 30 days away from check in to the program I decided to share with you my plan, Here I have a list of most of the animated movies from the Disney Studio and I will be attempting to watch them all before I move in.  Here they all are in release date order, I will be crossing them out as I go.

• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs-December 21, 1937
• Pinocchio-February 7, 1940
• Fantasia-November 13, 1940
• Dumbo-October 23, 1941
• Bambi-August 13, 1942
• Saludos Amigos-August 24, 1942
• The Three Caballeros-December 21, 1944
• Make Mine Music-April 20, 1946
• Fun and Fancy Free-September 27, 1947
• Melody Time-May 27, 1948
• The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad-October 5, 1949
• Cinderella-February 15, 1950
• Alice in Wonderland-July 28, 1951
• Peter Pan-February 5, 1953
• Lady and the Tramp-June 22, 1955
• Sleeping Beauty-January 29, 1959
• One Hundred and One Dalmatians-January 25, 1961
• The Sword in the Stone-December 25, 1963
• The Jungle Book-October 18, 1967
• The Aristocats-December 24, 1970
• Robin Hood-November 8, 1973
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh-March 11, 1977
• The Rescuers-June 22, 1977
• The Fox and the Hound-July 10, 1981
• The Black Cauldron-July 24, 1985
• The Great Mouse Detective-July 2, 1986
• Oliver & Company-November 18, 1988
• The Little Mermaid-November 17, 1989
• DuckTales the Movie-August 3, 1990
• The Rescuers Down Under-November 16, 1990
• Beauty and the Beast-November 22, 1991
• Aladdin-November 25, 1992
• The Nightmare Before Christmas-October 29, 1993
• The Lion King-June 24, 1994
• A Goofy Movie-April 7, 1995
• Pocahontas-June 23, 1995
• Toy Story-November 22, 1995
• James and the Giant Peach-April 12, 1996
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame-June 21, 1996
• Hercules-June 27, 1997
• Mulan-June 19, 1998
• A Bug's Life-November 25, 1998
• Doug's 1st Movie-March 26, 1999
• Tarzan-June 18, 1999
• Toy Story 2-November 24, 1999
• Fantasia 2000-December 17, 1999
• The Tigger Movie-February 11, 2000
• Dinosaur-May 19, 2000
• The Emperor's New Groove-December 15, 2000
• Recess: School's Out-February 16, 2001
• Atlantis: The Lost Empire-June 15, 2001
• Monsters, Inc.-November 2, 2001
• Return to Never Land-February 15, 2002
• Lilo & Stitch-June 21, 2002
• Treasure Planet-November 27, 2002
• The Jungle Book 2-February 14, 2003
• Piglet's Big Movie-March 21, 2003
• Finding Nemo-May 30, 2003
• Brother Bear-November 1, 2003
• Teacher's Pet-January 16, 2004
• Home on the Range-April 2, 2004
• The Incredibles- November 5, 2004
• Pooh's Heffalump Movie-February 11, 2005
• Howl's Moving Castle-June 10, 2005
• Valiant-August 19, 2005
• Chicken Little-November 4, 2005
• Bambi II-February 7, 2006
• The Wild-April 14, 2006
• Cars-June 9, 2006
• Meet the Robinsons-March 30, 2007
• Ratatouille-June 29, 2007
• WALL-E-June 27, 2008
• Roadside Romeo-October 24, 2008 
• Bolt-November 28, 2008
• Up-May 29, 2009
• Ponyo-August 14, 2009
• Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure-September 3, 2009 
• A Christmas Carol-November 6, 2009
• The Princess and the Frog-December 11, 2009
• Toy Story 3-June 18, 2010
• Tales from Earthsea-August 13, 2010
• Tangled-November 24, 2010
• Mars Needs Moms-March 11, 2011
• Cars 2-June 24, 2011
• Winnie the Pooh-July 15, 2011
• The Secret World of Arrietty-February 17, 2012
• Brave-June 22, 2012
• Secret of the Wings-August 31, 2012 
• Frankenweenie-October 5, 2012
• Wreck-It Ralph-November 2, 2012
• Monsters University-June 21, 2013
• Planes-August 9, 2013
• Frozen-November 27, 2013
• The Pirate Fairy-February 13, 2014 
• Planes: Fire & Rescue-July 18, 2014
• Big Hero -November 7, 2014