DCP: Check-in Day!!

Ahh today is the big day! It is check-in day! I woke up super early because I just couldn’t sleep. I was way too excited. My check-in time was at 9:45. You are allowed to arrive 15 minutes before your check-in. But if you arrive any earlier the security guards will send you away.

You go to Check-in at one of the Disney Apartments called Vista Way. I arrived there at 9:30 and my nerves were through the roof! All of my roommates had the same check-in time so we all tried to meet up and stand in line together.

When you get there they will divide you up into two groups. An A-L group and M-Z. Once you are in those lines you go into another line to see where you will be working at!

I am working at……..drumroll please……..Disney’s Animal Kingdom- Asia Merchandise!! Woo!

And then after that you go into another line where you wait and find out where you are living. My housing situation is bittersweet. I got the apartment I didn’t want but Disney linked me up with all of my roommates I had wanted before! I am living in Vista Way which is the oldest of all of the apartments. It has a bad reputation for things breaking all of the time and there being mold. Our apartment was surprisingly not that bad. It wasn’t the best, but after we made it feel more like home it was much better. It’s starting to grow on me.

It was pure luck that I got placed with my roommates. We all think it was because we had made our housing preferences the exact same. If you remember in the beginning there was 12 of us girls. We split into 2 groups of six and we were all going to hang out and try to live in the same apartment. Now 6 out of the 12 of us live together but we are all in Vista! So we still plan to hang out all the time.

After you find out where you are living you go and take your photo I.D picture for housing

Once you are done taking your picture you go get your key for your apartment and then you pick up your housing I.D. You have to have this ID with you at all times so you can enter your apartment complex.

Once you are done you go into another room and the first thing you get is an overlook of your first week. My schedule for this week looks like this:

Tuesday: Casting- 11:30

                Housing Meeting- 4:00
Wednesday: Off
Thursday: Off
Friday: Traditions: First official day of work

Casting is where you get a more detailed schedule of this week and next week so I will get that tomorrow.

After that you go to 4 stations with a group of people. The first station is going over basic Disney guidelines and the Disney Look. The next station you fill out your I-9 form. The station after that you talk about housing events educational opportunities and other opportunities you have while working for Disney. The final station you talk about safety.

Once that is all done you are free to go. Some people have casting that day so if you do then you have to go on a bus. If you don’t then you have the rest of the day to yourself!