I can't believe it, but it's been almost 2 years since I posted. I really meant to post throughout my Professional Internship at Disney for Fairy Tale Weddings, but life got in the way. I used to wonder how people didn't have time for things when I had two jobs and went to school full time and still managed to make room for everything- but I get it now. I GET IT. The whole year went by so so fast. And this year isn't any different. I remember my older family members saying how the year just felt like it flew by while I was sitting there going "Really?" in my head because I was waiting for school to be over and my life to start. Now I wish I could just take a breath without another month passing by in the blink of an eye.
The main reason for this post is to update you all on my life the past almost 2(!) years. It was so great looking through my posts, and re-living those moments. I've had such an amazing ride thanks to Disney and Michigan State University.
I have to break it to you- brace yourselves....I no longer work at Disney World. I left the Happiest Place on Earth. Why? I'll get to that. But I wanted to get the elephant out of the room as quickly as possible. No, it wasn't because of anything bad. I never used to believe that things happen for a reason, but there is a sequence that life takes, and I believe I'm going with the flow that my river of life is going, so to speak.
Now, where to start?
How do I catch you up without boring you to tears? How do I fit in all the highlights when literally almost every second was a highlight? It's impossible. But I'll try.
So the last post ended with me in Georgia, waiting to check in to my new house the next day. On January 6, I veered to the left towards Orlando, and my Grandparents veered to the right towards Clearwater. The woman who I had been in contact with for our house said that we could have a 5 bedroom, 3 bathroom house at Solana Resort off of US 27 for a month if we didn't mind moving again in February to the smaller one (4 bedroom/3 bathroom). Of course, we all agreed and moved into our gated community home in Davenport. It was beautiful, in the back corner of the subdivision. It was quiet, and it was a quick 15-20 minute drive to work for all of us.
Geneve was from Singapore, but went to college at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Her Professional Internship was in Social Media at the Team Disney building near Downtown Disney. From what I gathered, she did a lot of poring over newspapers and cutting out any info concerning Disney. She also got to go on a lot of fun field trips for Disney, too. For example, she went to the Give Kids the World Village in Kissimmee. She also got to be a part of the high profile press events, like when the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train ride opened in the new Fantasyland, completing the years-long process of "New Fantasyland". And when the Magic Bands were still a mysterious, amazingly cool new thing, she got to go to the official My Magic + event and breathe the same air as Samantha Brown and Tom Staggs.
My last roommate was Jackie, from Portland, Oregon. She got the Professional Intern position at Disney Creative Media, which meant she got to be a photographer for different events. She shadowed a few weddings, so we knew the same people since she worked in the editing room most of the time, editing photos from the weddings I helped assist on. Basically, all of my roommates were and are ridiculously talented and creative. And little ol' me, interning with Fairy Tale Weddings.
So there we were. 4 girls with no idea what the next 6 months had in store for us, but ready to open the door to our futures.
