The First Week - Check In Day!

January 22, 2013 - Check In Day!

Check-In

It was about 70 degrees at Vista Way during check in.
Definitely not in Utah anymore! ;) 

That first morning I woke up at about 5:30am (still 3:30 in my mind..) to get to check in at 7:00. I met up with my new friend Kelsey, a girl from Michigan who I met on Facebook. We were planning on being roommates. Her mom was kind enough to drive us and my things over to check in. (So grateful for kind people! ..also happy about avoiding taking a taxi.. haha!) Check in went pretty smoothly, except for the fact that we were going to have to be put in Vista Way.. we both had heard some sketchy things about it and just felt more comfortable staying somewhere else, but in order to do that, Kelsey and I had to be separated. That was definitely taking a leap of faith to be put with 5 girls I knew nothing about. but it was out of my hands at that point and I just hoped for the best. 

My Apartment

I ended up in the newest and nicest apartment complex!

I went into my apartment expecting the worse, an awful apartment, terrible roommates, but got the complete opposite. (thank goodness!)

The apartment was super clean, and nice, and a lot bigger than I imagined.

The Living Room! This is where we live! :)

The Kitchen! (1 fridge. 6 people.. it's kinda like a  puzzle. haha)

Mine and Sammie Jo's closet. (I have a lot more clothes than I thought!)

My Side of the room :)

My bed! not very comfy, but extremely adorable :)

This is my decorating style. 

Our Living room/Dining room.

The first week here, I had the idea to make All About Me things that say things like our school, major, birthday, and then the important stuff like Fav Disney movie, princess, park etc. :) Then under these, we post our schedule for the week so we know who is available to play in the parks with us. ;) On the right side is our cleaning schedule Jess made, that says who is going to do either Garbage of Dishes for the day, which has worked pretty well so far!

The view from our balcony.

  But the best part about my new apartment life is my roommates! The greatest group of girls ever! Like seriously, I have no clue how I got so lucky! We all get along great and are all like best friends! Get to know a little bit more about each of them on my page: Introductions-The Cast.

Now time to brag about what an awesome family I have! While unpacking I found some hidden little gems in my suitcases! A very essential bottle of fry sauce (i was really worried I wasn't going to be able to eat fries again! cause heaven knows I can't do it without fry sauce!), A jar of nutella (that actually lasted me like a whole week! haha!) But the most special item of them all was a card from McKay and a CD she made with all of mine and her favorite songs, like seriously, if there was a playlist that could describe our relationship, that was definitely it! She'll never know how special that was to me, and whenever I miss the fam even a little bit, I listen to it :)

(taken two days before I left) This girl right here, is the best friend I could ever ask for!

Missing the sisters for sure! LOVE YOU BOTH!!!!!

Casting

After getting somewhat settled into my new room, it was time for casting which is basically where they make sure we have all our paper work and such finished in order to begin working. But this was the first little taste of Disney we all got. Lots of us boarded a bus (the first of many) taking us to the Disney Casting building, and as soon as we passed under the Welcome to Walt Disney World Sign, everyone on the bus went crazy with cheering and screaming, it was so exciting!! The building also had lots of magical Disney touches. Tons of awesome artwork, Disney character sculptures, the doorknobs were exactly like the one's from Alice in Wonderland! And this was just the place we filled out paperwork! Another reason Disney is amazing and magical :)