The Beginning of a Dream

All my life I have been in love with Disney. From its movies, to its parks, to its Saturday morning cartoons! Disney was an integral part of my family and was one thing that everyone would watch together, and genuinely love. In fact, my earliest memories are from when I was only 4 years old, and my family went to Disneyland (even though we weren't suppose to, because my Dad was in the Air Force at the time and only deployed in California for a short time). I can remember vaguely putting a coin into a lamp (Aladdin's Other Lamp) that allowed me to get my fortune told, and how scared I was riding the Haunted Mansion for the first time, also if I shut my eyes I can still remember the colors of the electric light parade. I've always thought it was amazing how I could remember these things at such a young age. That only proves how much of an impact Disney can have on you!

After that I was always planning our next vacation, and when I was 10 I finally got to go back! This time to Disney World for their 100th birthday and brand new opening of the Disney Animal Kingdom! Because I was the oldest I got to choose where we stayed so naturally I chose the newest hotel connected to the Animal Kingdom. It was amazing. 13 years later my family went back to Disney World, but this time we stayed off site.

Honestly, I had never thought of working at Disney seriously. I didn't live in Florida/California, and honestly, I am not a big fan of Florida or California! I had the typical Disney face character dream, being a princess all day, but I pushed it out and went on my way into the "real world". I really didn't know what to expect then when I finally transferred from my community college to a University, and one day while walking to class saw a table and 2 recruiters. It was a little purple table, and I almost walked completely passed it before I did double take, "Did that say Disney?" I had to ask myself before I stopped to talk to them. I had never heard of this program before, and it didn't take them long to convince me to apply for Spring 2016. Sadly my first try came to an unfortunate end, but I had gotten the phone interview and figured, "If I made it this far, I will just try again next semester!" I'm glad I remembered, because a few weeks after my phone interview for Fall of 2016 I was accepted into the program as a custodian; the rest will be history!