Calgary and 50 more days

Since this is mainly Disney stuff. I will keep the Calgary part short.

I went to Calgary Alberta for my cousins wedding the end of September. Man was it ever the best way to end a horrible month. After such horrible days of September with the pets getting sick or hurt, it was so great to get to to get out of the Provence and go see my family. The hotel was AMAZING. Check it out: http://www.fairmont.com/palliser/Photos/ The celebration was MAGICAL and really I had not had that great of time in years. I wish my family lived closer so we could be together more often. To end off this amazing time I had probably one of my last dreams come true before I go work at Disney. I got to take the train from Edmonton to Toronto. That is a 2 day 3 night event. I met some awesome people who I will never forget. Learned some new card games. AND saw the northern lights. THAT was neat. They wernt as bright as they would have been further north. But it was just neat to see. They looked like a huge waterfall in the sky.

Well now I am home, and in thinking about it, I only have 50 more days. That is awesome, and really weird. Finally such a small number has come. I cant belive it has been 50 days since my 100 day mark. Time is going by all too fast for me. Less then 2 months now.

Today is also our thanksgiving dinner next door. Which means if I want to make a picture to share with everyone to celebrate only 50 more days, I should get started soon.

I still have much to do. This month I have to finish up work. As I am not working past November. 1st. That will be anoying but good when it is all done. I have to get my health stuff still. I have to get packed as well. But that will come later of course. I am spending most of November drawing. To catch up on things and finally be super happy that I am done working. LOL.

Anyway no flight change yet. LOL. I was so expecting by now they would have changed again. I will keep my fingers crossed and hopefully no more change. :)

(If you want to see more about my trip to Calgary, go to the link below, to my Not So Disney Journal. I am still adding entries. I have been rather busy the last few days. So by my next post on here is should be done. It has pictures and such too. And I might add some videos for my friends on livejournal. Otherwise most of the stuff can also be seen on facebook.)

http://timitu.livejournal.com/

Have a magical day. And to all my friends on here. I will catch up on your journals soon and leave comments when I got some time. I really missed reading them all so I am glad a few of you have posted things so I have stuff to read. :)

Disney Package Has Arrived

Well September has been a bad month. So many pet problems. But it sure ends with a blast. Today when I got home from taking my dog to the vet to have his stitches removed (FINALLY) I saw we had a package. Could it really be what I was hopeing for. And guess what. It was! My Disney Package! I was SO happy. It is a little bent so it was hard to get pictures of, but I am flatening it out now. I will share a few pictures I did get cause they turned out quite well. :)

This is the first one... of course. The front cover of the Disney Folder. No picture collection is complete without it. :)

The next one below is the opened up version of the package, with an opened view of the "Circle booklet" in the center.



Yay. I cant belive it is finally here. Like I said I cant tell too much about it cause I have hardly looked at it. I dont like it all folded. So I am hopeing I will get the chance later tonight to read it better. As usual my disney live journal page has more on this as well as more pictures. I just had to let you know I got it. I have so much to do this week as I am going to Calgary at the end of it for my Cousin's wedding. So I will leave you with two more pictures, and when I get home from Calgary I will get back to my ruteen of Disney Journals and such. :) It feels so much more real now. Only thing else I need is my Visa. Once that gets here It will be very real.

Here is the two luggage tags, the mears bus coupon and behind is the Disney Look book... which you can see better below. :)

Flight Info Changed

I have to admit, I am kind of mad about it. I picked the early flight for a reason. Now it is later then I would have liked it to be. Oh well maybe I will meet up with more people going the same day as me. I now arrive at 11:30am (roughly) in Orlando. So I am much later then the 9:15am I was landing at before. This means it will be past lunch by the time I am sitting in my apartment unpacking. That is a lot to get done in a short amount of time.

But oh well. There is good to it. I wont have to wake up early. And as long as the weather is not bad I should be able to get a drive no problem to the airport so I can get leaving pictures before I go. :) So I have to admit that is fine with me. :)

100 MORE DAYS

I cant believe it is finally here. 100 more days from right now I will be sitting in Orlando Florida unpacking my bags and beginning my new life at Walt Disney World. I am so excited. There is so much to do still but now it is now that things will finally start happening.

Not a whole lot planned today. This evening I will be going out for dinner with the whole family to celebrate my cousin's wedding shower. I am excited cause I will get to see her and meet the new baby. So that in a way is the best kind of celebration I could ask for for my 100 more days. Once my vlog gets finished and ready I will edit this post and put it in as well as my picture to celebrate.

To all those who are writing blogs that I am watching. I am really enjoying them. I may not get by as often to reply. But I read each one you guys make. And if I get behind I go back and read them. I am loving your stories of getting ready to be at Disney or being there. It is the best part of waiting to be there. :)

Date Change

Not my arrival date, but there was a good part to being one of the last people of our interview group to go. Due to the American Thanksgiving falling on the date I am to return back to Canada, Disney Extended my contract a week and I will be there till Dec. 4th 2009. So yes... my banner will have to change.

Also I updated a few things around. Added the new blog's I read feature and added the link to my regular journal on LiveJournal. It has my non Disney stuff, if anyone did want to know what is up with work here and my art and just about anything that is not disney related. But go check out some of the blogs I read. It only shows the 5 most recent blogs. So you will know who is most active. Cause I wont be too active on here till it gets closer.

Anyway thought I would update that quick. I am working a lot right now, but once I get some free time I will update my banner for this page. (Hopefully end of August I will have some extra time on my hands.)

Welcome to my Disney Blog

Welcome to My Disney Blog

As you can probably guess by now, I got hired as a Walt Disney Cast Member. My arrival date is December 2nd 2008. Not much more to say for this blog, Just a super long wait. I have actually known about my accepted arrival date since Feb. 15th 2008, so I have already been waiting almost half of my wait so far. (And I actually found out about the job possibility and began applying in July 2007. Due to the fact I just missed the interview in my area I had to wait till Feb. 2008 for the next interview.) Anyway I will be working in Epcot in the Canadian Pavilion. (If you want to know more check out some of my links, especially the presentation. That is a fun way to find out more about this job.) I am from Ontario, Canada. Which is one of the many other countries Disney hires from for a one year contract that I am part of. I am part of the CRP or (Cultural Representative Program). Don't be fooled by the word Program, you don't have to be going to college our university for this. (The International College Program, ICP or the College Program, CP you have to be in a 4 or more year program in a college or university.) I myself have finished college in the Technical Theater Program. But if even half the people working in theater are anything like most of the people I met going there, I don't want to be part of that group. LOL.

Due to the long wait before I leave, and lack of information I am not going to be posting more posts to this blog till around November 2008. This is because there really is not a whole lot to say. Between now and then the main Disney things are, Gathering a bunch of Canadian stuff, getting insurance for my first 4 months of being down there. After that I am on their insurance. And that is about it. My flight there is already booked and plans are being made with it. I will be making 3 PRE-Disney Vlogs to post on youtube, which you can find at the bottom of this page. One will be posted in August, the other will be posted in October, and the last will be posted in Late November.

If you plan to watch this over my time of working in Disney, then over the months of waiting be sure to check out some of my links on the left hand side. My "Other Disney Journal" will be updated often. For little things like "I got all my Canadian Stuff", and to "announce my new vlogs" and other things relating to Disney and my future there. I also have at the moment two Disney Cast Member Journals who are already down there. So if you get bored check them out. And if your from Canada, Mexico, China, Morocco, France, Norway, Germany, Sub-Saharan Africa (Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Lesotho, Swaziland, and South Africa), Southeast Asia (India, Indonesia, Nepal, Thailand), Italy, Japan or United Kingdom then you are also able to apply for the same 1 year contact with Disney that I have. (And even if your not, the ICP includes the countries above and many more.) So I have many sites also that may help people in their "Quest to be a Disney Cast Member."

And like I said not much else to say but bookmark this blog and keep an eye on it the end of this year. Hopefully I can make it fun and exciting, both for thoese thinking of applying, and thoese who just want to read about the adventure. :)

Anyway Have a Magical Day. (And several months)

Be Back in October or November.

~Timitu~

First Blog

I am just starting. I promise I will get this all fixed up and looking nice when I get some time and the weather cools down a bit. So keep an eye out for now. :)