#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

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! 

The Disney Look

A little under a month ago I received the infamous Disney Look email. I guess they send it out 2 months before your arrival date. Now I am pretty familiar with the Disney look because of my visits to the park. During my phone interview I was asked if I knew what the Disney Look was and how familiar I was with it, my interviewer still gave me a short spiel on the Disney Look. So in turn here I am to talk about this very important part of being a CP. I know people worry a lot about this topic whether it is because of their piercings or their tattoos it brings concern to many applicants, and deters a couple of people from even applying. Disney does a good job of explaining in detail what the Disney Look encompasses, and I have read that your first day in Casting they give you a once over to make sure you fit their criteria. So if you haven't received your Disney Look email or you just got to me first here I will break it down for you: 

Costume Guidelines 
Hair- Disney doesn't allow for crazy hair colors, which is so sad because I was ready to dye my ends bright pink or blue again.  If you do color your hair do it very carefully as the colors you use on your head must be natural looking, this is the category that I fall under, since I had colorful ends before my ends are now blonde and as my hair grows and I cut it I still have a few inches of blonde left but since it blends I am in the clear (knock on wood). Hair should be kept in neat classic hairstyles, to keep these styles in check they allow you to wear hair accessories, but it has to match your costume and you cant wear more than three accessories at once so a basic headband with a ponytail up is allowed. 
Nails- Should Need to be clean, if you use nail polish which I have a serious addiction too, the colors must be neutral it includes deep, rich shades of polish. But sadly no black, gold,silver,neon or multi-color is allowed. Don't even think about embellishing your nails as decals and charms are not permitted. As for the length they specify that nails shouldn't pass 6 mm beyond fingertips but basically if you turn your hand around and you can see the nail, you can start filing them. 
Face- Just know how to blend your makeup very well, and use neutral colors.
For Jewelry- I have to take of all my bracelets, but you can wear earrings, rings and classic watches. This jewelry must in a color that blends with the costume, gold, or silver. one ring on each hand is allowed. 

Then there are non-costumed guidelines which will usually involve business attire. 

More specifics on the male guidelines, because there are many details on facial hair, specific mustaches and sideburns but you can find those here: http://cp.disneycareers.com/en/onboarding/fl/working-here/disney-look/male-cast-members/


Tattoos and Body Modification:  
This one is coming straight from the horse's mouth- 

Intentional body alteration or modification for the purpose of achieving a visible, physical effect that disfigures, deforms or similarly detracts from a professional image is prohibited. 

Examples include, but are not limited to, visible tattoos, brands, body piercing (other than traditional ear piercing for women), tongue piercing or splitting, tooth filing, earlobe expansion and disfiguring skin implants.

Tattoos must be discreetly and completely covered at all times. Jewelry, spacers, retainers, or plugs are not permitted in any body piercing, including non-visible piercings, while working.

All this information was found on the DCP website:
http://cp.disneycareers.com/en/onboarding/fl/working-here/disney-look/overview/

Unscheduled Interruption: VSPINK Pool Party

I figured that in the meantime, that is the next two months before I get to Orlando I will also be posting about my adventures down here in South Florida. This way you can all get to know me a little better and see the random things I like to do for fun,  and see that there's more to Florida just Orlando.  So without further ado, in this week's edition of Unscheduled Interruptions I present to you the Victoria's Secret Pink pool party.

My lovely invitation to the party

A couple of weeks ago I had told my friend about the Victoria's Secret pool party because I had seen it on Instagram I didn't think much about it and we joked about going but it was never brought up again. Saturday the 14th arrives and I get a phone call from my friend, needless to say I was out of my bed and ready to go in less than an hour. A spur of the moment decision turned into a 45 minute drive to Miami and even longer wait to get inside the pool party. After making through the long line, I was skipped down the lobby and saw a bright pink inflatable puppy, the first sign of Victoria Secret Pink along the path to the party there were little pink heart decals on the floor, it really is all in the details! 

It was the perfect sunny Miami day with tons of people and pink props everywhere. By the time we had gotten there we were only going to get around 45 minutes to enjoy the party but to our surprise the DJ announced that the party had been extended for an extra hour. This was the best thing, we went over to the photo booth and took a picture heroes we received our next freebie a pair of pink sunglasses. We decided to go up to the pop up shop and check out their merchandise needless to say I wanted to buy everything but I have self control. we headed back down and took a few pictures of the pool and the entire party, then we saw on the other line and decided to go ahead and make it because lines equal freebies. When we got over there was a line for hair braiding, and long lines equals freebies so as we were standing there an attendant came over and explained to us that the hair braiders were going to be leaving soon so she advised us to leave the line and enjoy the party. On our way out we found a little counter with their mini fragances. What I didn't realize was that all these mini body splashes were free, in between all of us we left there was more than 10 body splash all of them individually cost $8.00 which was crazy for me. After grabbing some refreshing fruit infused water we decided it was time to get in the pool.

The Lovely Party

We grabbed our bags I'm pulled them close to the edge of the pool and then dove in! It was a fun experience to listen to the DJ from the pool, it was an even cooler experience to get a free Cody Simpson concert. Although I don't really remember Cody Simpson last time I heard him he was already a busy the kid is talented. he played me a song but he also did his own rendition of no woman no cry by Bob Marley I'm listening to that in the pool really set the mood of an island getaway. after this they played a little bit more music and before we knew it the night was over. we decided to head over to the beach and tan for a bit after that we grabbed a bite to eat at Five Guys. Our South Beach adventure was completed with a nice top-down ride in reference convertible.