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

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/

In the Big Blue World Anything is Possible: My DCP Bucketlist Pt.2 Things to Do

These are the activities I hope to accomplish while in Orlando for the Disney College Program., my second part Bucket List includes all the adventures I plan to complete mostly random things that I would like to get done during my program!

• First Purchase as a cast member : Disney Alex and Ani
• Wild Africa Trek
• Spend scientist time at the Seas with Nemo and Friends
• Have a family day as a cast member
• Meet Lane!
• Keep up with my blog and Instagram
• MNSSHP and EFW in one day (round three)
• Take a picture of all the topiaries in the Flower and garden Festival
• Take pictures with all of the characters from Star Wars Weekend
• New Starwars Vinylmation
• Buy new Dooney design satchel
• Collect the rest of the Sorcerers of the MK Cards
• Go to the filming of the Christmas Day Parade
• Rope Drop at each park
• Stitch my name on the back of my Traditions Ears
• Emerie: Food and Wine fest/ Drink around the world
• Nathaly: Record her first time in the parks
• Buy a Mickey mouse balloon
• Bowling and drinks at Splitsville
• Characters in Flight Balloon
• Solo day at the parks
• Mail a postcard from inside MK-> to Wyoming!
• Toy Story Mania
• Summit Plummit
• Find the beauty and adventure of Norway ;)
• Make my own phone case at the CoOp
• Mickey Vera Bradley something!
• Complete my Disney Autograph Book
• Learn more than 5 line dances at Cowboys
• Find all the CP's from my University and take a picture of all our name tags together
• Get to go to all the parks with all my roommates at least once
• Take the same picture in all four parks
• Embroider my traditions ears and then my graduation ears
• VoluntEAR
• Dapper Day!
• Jump into AMC fountain on last day
• Cirque du soleil

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.

In the Big Blue World Anything is Possible: My DCP Bucketlist Pt.1 Food and Drinks

This is going to be all I hope to accomplish while in Orlando for the Disney College Program. This will be a series of posts regarding my bucket list and crossing the items of from it. I split my list in two the first Bucket List encompasses the food and drink goals:

• Eat something from every country during the Food and Wine Festival 
• Dole Whip with Coconut Rum
• Monorail Bar Crawl
• Eat at every restaurant in the Parks
• Tommorowland Terrace Dessert Party
• Try to eat in at least 3 of the hotel restaurants with the roomies
• Tea at the Grand Floridian
• Polar Pub at Blizzard beach
• Eat a Turkey leg by myself
• Happy Landings Ice cream bucket at Typhoon Lagoon
• Beaches and Cream Ice Cream Sink with the roomies
• Chef Mickey! 
• Mickey's Backyard BBQ
• Throw back some beers at Raglan Road
• Mac and Cheeseburger at Electric Umbrella 
• The Famous Hollywood Brown Derby Cobb Salad at the Brown Derby!
• Jiko at The Animal Kingdom Lodge 
• Planet Hollywood 
• Rainforest Cafe 

Getting Accepted!

Hola!

I guess I can talk about my acceptance timeline if only a little bit. Well I applied to the Disney College Program the day that applications came out which was January 26th. I submitted my application somewhere between 6-8pm that night, I remember this because I was in class! Around an hour and a half later I received my Web Based Interview link and I was able to complete that and scheduled my phone interview for the following week. The web based interview is quite simple, it is like a personality test a way for Disney to see if you would be a good fit with the company. Following that was a long week of waiting for my phone interview to come around, that week ended before I knew it and then I was sitting in my sofa with my index cards and my notepad waiting for my phone to ring as I watched Brave. After my phone interview the real wait began. Two weeks went by and I heard nothing, I was still In Progress though so that kept me at ease. In the meantime I joined like 4 Facebook groups for DCP, including the 21+, one for Greek Life, and a Puerto Rico Group. These groups were the thing that kept me going because it was a lot of fun to interact with people on the same boat as I. Acceptances started rolling out the week of February 16th, this was the first wave with a lot of the hospitality and concierge acceptances, one of my close friends received his acceptance at this time which was very exciting.

My Acceptance Email

The week came to an end and I didn't hear anything from Disney it wasn't until the following week on Friday February 27th that I received my Congratulations Email, the email I had been waiting for forever. I was ACCEPTED for the Fall Advantage program in Walt Disney World with the role of Recreation, this was my top choice so it was very exciting to open the PDF containing my full letter. After getting accepted the few days after that involved a lot of interactions, I joined two more groups one for my arrival date and one for Recreation.  I will be arriving to Vista Way on the first Monday of check ins and I could not be more excited, I even found my roommates, more on that later though.

After my friends came over to celebrate, and I had come back down from cloud 9 :)



Stay Disney my Friends!