Disney College Program Bucketlist Fall 2014

This is going to be a post that I will be referring back to frequently over my stay in Orlando.  I'll probably add a key later, but struck through items have been completed and items in red are ones that perhaps I find out are impossible to accomplish.  

1. Meet all the Disney Princesses:
• Snow White
• Cinderella
• Aurora
• Ariel
• Belle
• Jasmine
• Pocahontas
• Mulan
• Tiana
• Rapunzel
• Merida
• Anna 
• Elsa
2. Finish the kitchen sink ( I plan on having at least 5 other girls with me, so this is definitely possible)
3. Run a Disney marathon/half marathon
4. Go to Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween party *in costume
5. Got to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party
6. Participate in the Candlelight Processional Cast Member Choir
7. Drink around the World 
8. Work a shift in all 4 parks
9. Visit all 4 parks in one day! *go on at least one ride and see one show
10. Participate in Dapper Day
11. voluntEAR
12. Go to the Beach
13. Visit Harry Potter World
14. Attend Universal's Halloween Horror Nights
15. Watch every show/parade/fireworks display
16. Attend the Food and Wine Festival
17. Go on a backstage tour (specifically Keys to the Kingdom)
18. Meet a Celebrity
19. Visit every Resort
20. See the Cirque Show
21. Go Bowling in Splitsville
22. Eat at every dining option in all 4 parks (this will be a doozy)
23. Keep an autograph book
24. Become a pin trading extraordinaire *up for debate
25. Buy a pair of ears
26. Eat Dole Whip (IVE HEARD ITS LIKE HEAVEN ON EARTH AND I WILL PROBABLY DEDICATE AN ENTIRE POST TO ITS MAGICALNESS
27. Disney-bound in the parks
28. Ride Seven Dwarves Mind Train Ride
29. Attend the filming of the Christmas Day Parade
30. Earns my ears
31. Graduate from DCP
32. Get a Professional Internship
33. Buy things at the Cast Member only store
34. Find and talk to "Push"
35. Attend most if not all CP events
36. Have a date in one of the parks
37. Go to a park by myself
38. Stage a picture on Splash Mountain
39. Meet "talking" Mickey
40. Get a birthday button!

Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust.

I GOT ACCEPTED.

While, I could just end this post here, I thought it would be beneficial to my readers and the readers yet to come that I explain my whole process.  The following post tells of my pre-accepted information and the timeline of my entire process.  This post will detail the events that followed my acceptance and all the events leading up to today.

It was at 10:30am in the morning, while I was over at my boyfriend's suite that I checked my email to find THIS:

I was completely over the moon! I told my boyfriend and then rushed back to my room to call my family.  Isn't it always at the most importance times that you find you can't reach them?  uh-yup.  I wasn't finally able to inform them until 45 minutes later after I had accepted my offer and payed all the fees.  

First, after my initial freak-out I followed the three-step process described in the email by Disney to officially accept my offer and pick my dates. 

I was directed to access my Disney portal page to accept my "offer" from Disney.  At this point, I had no idea what my role was or pay rate until reading the official offer page.  I will attach it below.  I don't feel wary about posting my pay-scale since the information is public and readily available if you search on Google.

Being in Attractions was one of my top 3 choices, so I was extra thrilled about being placed somewhere I was very much interested in working.  I've read that they already have decided where you will be working so hopefully since I talked a lot about my theatre experience I will get placed somewhere like the Great Movie Ride or the Jungle Cruise.  

After scrolling to the bottom of this lengthy acceptance page (the 7 more pages I didn't feel y'all needed to slug through) I clicked accept.  Following that I was sent the email to pay my fees.

Yada Yada, some people are going to complain about having to pay 300 dollars right off the bat, but it actually goes towards your first couple weeks of rent and the super mega foxy awesome hot activities for the n00bs as well--n00bs being me and the other thousands of DCP recruits.

I payed the fees and then my bank account cried.  And also looked like this 

ALL WORTH IT, in my opinion

The third step was choosing my arrival date.  To make a long blog post a bit shorter, the rest of the third step will be shown in pictures.  A la pictionary.

So there you have it.  I don't necessarily want to live in Vista Way, I think it just automatically chooses that until I log on to "DORMS" which is where you can list your roommate choices and housing preferences.  

So far I'm in a facebook group with 4 other girls (currently searching for a 6th roomie if you are interested and we all seem to get along just fine!)  We are calling our suite "The Palace" because we are all princesses.  I'm PUMPED to already have housing somewhat out of the way. 

In the next coming months I will be blogging all about my plans for budgeting during Disney and packing lists as well as my official DCP bucket list.  

Thanks for reading!

Hugs and pixie dust

~Lauren