Hey everybody!
I hope everybody is going well.
Apologies to people emailing me, my phone company said that I would be able to still send and receive emails on my phone, but they were wrong. So I only get half an hour on the computers at Vista Way and depending on when they are open and when I am working it tough to get on them. I will answer you eventually, so please don’t think I am rude for not answering. Well it has been an exciting couple of days for me lately. Let’s see what’s been happening.
1st Dec
After my last post I did end up going to the Magic Kingdom. I got there about 5pm and they closed at 7. But the cool thing is I can get in for free and I am here for 2 months, so I don't have to pack everything in on one day and leisurely take it all in. I'm sure you can guess where I beelined as soon as I walking into the park, that’s right the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, and it was more awesome then my wildest dreams! The great thing about the rides at Disney is waiting in the queue are almost as good as the rides themselves. The waiting areas are so elaborately themed, just checking everything out is so cool. After the actual ride it spills into a Pirates merchandise store, which has everything you can by that’s related to pirates. I restrained myself like a good boy, but sure will be hitting it again with my 40% staff holiday discount!
2nd Dec Had to wake up at 6 in the morning to head to the Studios for my first day introduction. Basically we started with a 4 hour in depth tour of the Disney MGM Studios theme park, rode a few rides and got to know the ins and outs of the park. From here we had to do some really boring training exercises on the computer, snore snore. But it was here that I got to finally find out where I am working ... THE GREAT MOVIE RIDE! Basically I am a tour guide that drives a tram through a number of movie scenes recreated with animatronics actors (and some real) Look HERE for some more info on the ride. If you look at the gangster photo there, that’s my costume. After the computer training was over, we went to the costuming place and got fitted into our costumes.
3rd Dec Started at the Great Movie Ride today, had to wake up at 5 to catch the bus :(. We started off with a basic walking tour of the attraction inside and out and got to learn some interesting facts about the ride itself (Which I will share with you each post). We then had a look at what to do when controlling the line and ushering. Our trainers then took us through a show with us, showing how it was done (with a 42 page script I have to memorize eek!) Then we did a lot of the usual training stuff where things are located, procedures stuff like that which I won’t bore you with. Then went home and did some washing as I was out of clothes.
4th Dec Another 5am start to get me to work. Today was pretty cool though, started out before the park opened blocking the scene we have to do with the bandit. Its all has to be pretty tight as we are working with guns (not real, but do fire so still dangerous) and fire for this, which looks really awesome. After this we got to learn about the vehicles we have to drive. We needed to learn all the points where to shift speed, where to stop, microphone stuff and checking the vehicles on and off etc etc. But this mostly just involved driving the trams round and round and round the ride which was pretty fun. Also did a lot more procedural stuff, which there is a lot of and need to remember. Don’t start till 12 tomorrow so I get to sleep in!
Anyway I have to go as I am getting kicked off of the computer. Have fun everybody!
EDIT: Woops I forgot to give me Great Movie Ride fact of the day, well here it is:
GREAT MOVIE RIDE FUN FACT: 'Snake' the audio animatronics bandit in the western scene is actually wearing a female hat. When he was informed of this fact, he didn't take it too well and started to break down regularly.
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Saturday, December 02, 2006
I Have Arrived!
Hey Everybody
I have arrived in Orlando after over 23 hours of traveling. Haven't been able to post on here till today as I needed my Disney ID till today. Now to what has happened over the last few days...
28th Nov
Traveled by a plane over here, not too much to say about that I was on a plane, exciting stuff I know. Traveled and hour from Adelaide to Melbourne, 14 hours from Melbourne to Los Angeles and 4 and a half hours from Los Angeles to Orlando. Arrived in Orlando with a large group of Aussies and we had to wait for someone at the airport, who turned up and was the most cheerful person in the universe! Now something that’s easy to deal with not having slept for 24 hours. We got to Vista Way, my new home that houses a lot of the people on the college program. There are 3 other housing estates for us, but Vista is the main one. After locating my room and meeting one of the housemates that were there (who managed to say about 3 words to me, he hasn't said anything since) went to Wal-Mart, which is a massive store with just about anything you want there. After buying some supplies from there, went back to the apartment and went to sleep.
29th Nov
Started the morning off with a lot of form signing and getting housing ID's done, really boring stuff. Still hadn't got our Disney IDs so we couldn't go to the parks yet, I also have no idea where I am working. After this I met some more of my housemates that weren't there the night before, the others seem pretty nice and welcoming and say more then 3 words to me. Had lunch at a place called Wendy's, which is kinda like a McDonalds. Got a small meal there which is about the same size as a large at McDonalds in Australia, its no wonder everyone over here is overweight. After this we had a housing meeting, where we got told about the apartments and what to do, more boring stuff!
30th Nov
Actually got to go to one of the parks today! We got taken to the Epcot theme park, got loaded off the bus and brought to a room with tables and forms we had to sign. Spent about 3 hours signing forms before they took us home ... we weren't allowed into the park, which was mean. Here we were signing forms, we could see Epcot out the window but we couldn't touch. I did get to find out where I am working though. I am working at the Disney-MGM studios in operations, should be fun!
1st Dec
Had to wake up at 6 to go to 'Traditions' which is an introduction training course about Disney. So we got to learn all about the background to Disney, their history, there rules and regulations and all that stuff, which was kind of cool. We then had a small meeting with the people working in Disney-MGM Studios, where I had hoped I'd find out where exactly I am working, but no. I do this tomorrow. I have to wake up early again tomorrow to have a tour of the park and get my costume I'll be wearing fitted, so excited about that.
Right now I think I might be hitting the Magic Kingdom hopefully.
I'll catch you cats later
Tristan
I have arrived in Orlando after over 23 hours of traveling. Haven't been able to post on here till today as I needed my Disney ID till today. Now to what has happened over the last few days...
28th Nov
Traveled by a plane over here, not too much to say about that I was on a plane, exciting stuff I know. Traveled and hour from Adelaide to Melbourne, 14 hours from Melbourne to Los Angeles and 4 and a half hours from Los Angeles to Orlando. Arrived in Orlando with a large group of Aussies and we had to wait for someone at the airport, who turned up and was the most cheerful person in the universe! Now something that’s easy to deal with not having slept for 24 hours. We got to Vista Way, my new home that houses a lot of the people on the college program. There are 3 other housing estates for us, but Vista is the main one. After locating my room and meeting one of the housemates that were there (who managed to say about 3 words to me, he hasn't said anything since) went to Wal-Mart, which is a massive store with just about anything you want there. After buying some supplies from there, went back to the apartment and went to sleep.
29th Nov
Started the morning off with a lot of form signing and getting housing ID's done, really boring stuff. Still hadn't got our Disney IDs so we couldn't go to the parks yet, I also have no idea where I am working. After this I met some more of my housemates that weren't there the night before, the others seem pretty nice and welcoming and say more then 3 words to me. Had lunch at a place called Wendy's, which is kinda like a McDonalds. Got a small meal there which is about the same size as a large at McDonalds in Australia, its no wonder everyone over here is overweight. After this we had a housing meeting, where we got told about the apartments and what to do, more boring stuff!
30th Nov
Actually got to go to one of the parks today! We got taken to the Epcot theme park, got loaded off the bus and brought to a room with tables and forms we had to sign. Spent about 3 hours signing forms before they took us home ... we weren't allowed into the park, which was mean. Here we were signing forms, we could see Epcot out the window but we couldn't touch. I did get to find out where I am working though. I am working at the Disney-MGM studios in operations, should be fun!
1st Dec
Had to wake up at 6 to go to 'Traditions' which is an introduction training course about Disney. So we got to learn all about the background to Disney, their history, there rules and regulations and all that stuff, which was kind of cool. We then had a small meeting with the people working in Disney-MGM Studios, where I had hoped I'd find out where exactly I am working, but no. I do this tomorrow. I have to wake up early again tomorrow to have a tour of the park and get my costume I'll be wearing fitted, so excited about that.
Right now I think I might be hitting the Magic Kingdom hopefully.
I'll catch you cats later
Tristan
Monday, November 27, 2006
Almost time.
Howdy guys.
Well its almost time I left austraila. Sorry I haven't posted for a while, been busy with uni and getting ready for this big trip. At the time of writing this I have exactly twenty four hours before I catch a flight to Melbourne. From there I head out to Los Angeles and then onto Orlando and disney world. Yay! I am pretty sure that my phone is still able to send emails while I am over there, so iIshould be able to keep this blog pretty updated from now on. I also bought a nifty camera for my trip away, so assuming that I can get access to a computer I will post some photos on here as well. If you want to get in contact with me, I am hoping I will be able to send and recieve emails on my phone, the account I am using will be Tristan.Lintern@gmail.com. If you want to email me, contact me there and I should get back as soon as I can.
Thats it from me for now.
Toora!
Well its almost time I left austraila. Sorry I haven't posted for a while, been busy with uni and getting ready for this big trip. At the time of writing this I have exactly twenty four hours before I catch a flight to Melbourne. From there I head out to Los Angeles and then onto Orlando and disney world. Yay! I am pretty sure that my phone is still able to send emails while I am over there, so iIshould be able to keep this blog pretty updated from now on. I also bought a nifty camera for my trip away, so assuming that I can get access to a computer I will post some photos on here as well. If you want to get in contact with me, I am hoping I will be able to send and recieve emails on my phone, the account I am using will be Tristan.Lintern@gmail.com. If you want to email me, contact me there and I should get back as soon as I can.
Thats it from me for now.
Toora!
Sunday, October 01, 2006
How Awesome is This!
Greetings Friends!
Last night I got the opportunity to see one of my all time favourite artists in concert, Ben Folds. He has been touring Australia playing with the various symphony orchestras. I was lucky enough to see the final performance with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra as well as I think it is the last show of the Australian Tour. It was my first time seeing Ben Folds live and it was freeking awesome! Just him on his own would have been enough but having the orchestra backing him just added so much. There was a pretty cool cross section with the audience, on the one had you had the Ben Folds fans, casual, young indie fans, then you had the ASO fans, older dressy 'high-class' people. I wonder if the latter knew exactly what they were getting into with all the 'sh*ts' and 'fu*ks' :P (during 'Rocking the Suburbs' he got the entire audience to yell out 'Fu*k!' quite weird yelling that out to the ASO :P) And oh how the audience went off when he broke out into 'Adelaide'.
But that being said, onto the purpose of this post. I have mentioned before that my all time favourite song is 'Such Great Heights' by the Postal Service. In my patented concert debrief of going through and listening to the songs and serching the bands website, I came across on You Tube a cover that aired on jTV of 'Such Great Heights' by Ben. I just thought it was so awesome I had to share it with the world. Check it out I dare you!
Last night I got the opportunity to see one of my all time favourite artists in concert, Ben Folds. He has been touring Australia playing with the various symphony orchestras. I was lucky enough to see the final performance with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra as well as I think it is the last show of the Australian Tour. It was my first time seeing Ben Folds live and it was freeking awesome! Just him on his own would have been enough but having the orchestra backing him just added so much. There was a pretty cool cross section with the audience, on the one had you had the Ben Folds fans, casual, young indie fans, then you had the ASO fans, older dressy 'high-class' people. I wonder if the latter knew exactly what they were getting into with all the 'sh*ts' and 'fu*ks' :P (during 'Rocking the Suburbs' he got the entire audience to yell out 'Fu*k!' quite weird yelling that out to the ASO :P) And oh how the audience went off when he broke out into 'Adelaide'.
But that being said, onto the purpose of this post. I have mentioned before that my all time favourite song is 'Such Great Heights' by the Postal Service. In my patented concert debrief of going through and listening to the songs and serching the bands website, I came across on You Tube a cover that aired on jTV of 'Such Great Heights' by Ben. I just thought it was so awesome I had to share it with the world. Check it out I dare you!
Friday, September 29, 2006
The wonders of technology!!!
Hello reader!
Due to whe wonders of technology i an writing this blog on my mobile phone on the bus as I travel into Adelaide. How cool is that. Whats not cool is the guy I am sitting next to who insists on opening his legs so wide to take up most of the seat leaving one of my butt cheeks teetaring over the edge. What is even worse is he is listening to music, through the speakers on his phone and he happens to be playing nickelback.
This surely is worse then hell!!!
Due to whe wonders of technology i an writing this blog on my mobile phone on the bus as I travel into Adelaide. How cool is that. Whats not cool is the guy I am sitting next to who insists on opening his legs so wide to take up most of the seat leaving one of my butt cheeks teetaring over the edge. What is even worse is he is listening to music, through the speakers on his phone and he happens to be playing nickelback.
This surely is worse then hell!!!
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Student Radio - Update - Update
Hello Cyberspace
Just a quick update with the whole podcast thing, we are now avalible through the Itunes podcast catalogue. Just follow the ling below and it should take you to the Itunes page (if you have Itunes).
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=190068213&s=143460
Toodles!!!
Just a quick update with the whole podcast thing, we are now avalible through the Itunes podcast catalogue. Just follow the ling below and it should take you to the Itunes page (if you have Itunes).
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=190068213&s=143460
Toodles!!!
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Disney FAQ
Now I've mucked around with that I can do with this blog thing, I should really post something relating to the reason I set it up in the first place, my impending trip to Walt Disney World. I've had a few people quiz me about the trip, why I am going, how I got the job etc, so I am writing this to clear up any confusions. Because of my overwhelming creativity, I'm going to do this in the form of a FAQ, how cool am I! Here goes...
Where are you going?
I am going to America, more specifically Florida, more specifically Orlando in Florida. It is here I will be going to work at Walt Disney World (not to be confused with Disneyland which is in California, Disney World is the bigger one, Disneyland could fit into Disney World's car park.)
When are you going?
I start over there on November 28th 2006 and finish up February 16th 2007 .
Where are you going to stay while you are over there?
Disney have a number of apartment complexes in which the 'cast members' (a term for people employed by Disney) partaking of the College program and/or International program get to stay at. Although it isn't free, it only costs Approx. US$70 a week, which isn't bad as the biggest expense overseas is the accommodation.
How are you getting over there?
A company by the name of DK Australia is helping us with the paperwork, organising flights, visas etc. We still have to pay for the flights and everything over there, but they are trying to organise discounted flights.
Tell us a bit about Disney World?
Well Disney World is home to 4 theme parks, 2 water parks, a nigh time area, 21 resorts, 6 golf courses and much much more. All in all a pretty cool place.
Where will you be working while in Disney World?
I don't know exactly where I will be working, we were given a list at the interview where we put down options of what jobs are available. What I have ended up getting is Attractions/Operations. This job (from what they've told me) is getting put on a ride, looking after/cleaning it, taking tickets, doing a memorised spiel, it really depends on where they put you and what attraction your on. I guess I can give you a more detailed description of what I am doing when I get over there.
How did you get a job working at Disney World!?
I basically answered and email that was sent out to all the students at Unisa, I had some friends who did the program last yeah and highly recommended it so I thought I'd check it out. I attended an information/interview session with about 30 other people where they talked to us about Disney World and the International Program itself, then got interviewed where it was basically just getting to know who we are. Two weeks later I got a call saying I got the job.
What are some of the advantages you get from working at Disney World?
Well you get free entry into all the theme parks there! That's the big one, as well as discounts galore whilst in the park itself.
What ride are you most looking forward to going on?
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN OF COURSE!!!
Will you miss us?
...No
Well that's all I can really think of at the moment, if I think of more I'll add them, especially if you bug me with more questions. Right now methinks it's time for bed.
Goodnight Internet!
Where are you going?
I am going to America, more specifically Florida, more specifically Orlando in Florida. It is here I will be going to work at Walt Disney World (not to be confused with Disneyland which is in California, Disney World is the bigger one, Disneyland could fit into Disney World's car park.)
When are you going?
I start over there on November 28th 2006 and finish up February 16th 2007 .
Where are you going to stay while you are over there?
Disney have a number of apartment complexes in which the 'cast members' (a term for people employed by Disney) partaking of the College program and/or International program get to stay at. Although it isn't free, it only costs Approx. US$70 a week, which isn't bad as the biggest expense overseas is the accommodation.
How are you getting over there?
A company by the name of DK Australia is helping us with the paperwork, organising flights, visas etc. We still have to pay for the flights and everything over there, but they are trying to organise discounted flights.
Tell us a bit about Disney World?
Well Disney World is home to 4 theme parks, 2 water parks, a nigh time area, 21 resorts, 6 golf courses and much much more. All in all a pretty cool place.
Where will you be working while in Disney World?
I don't know exactly where I will be working, we were given a list at the interview where we put down options of what jobs are available. What I have ended up getting is Attractions/Operations. This job (from what they've told me) is getting put on a ride, looking after/cleaning it, taking tickets, doing a memorised spiel, it really depends on where they put you and what attraction your on. I guess I can give you a more detailed description of what I am doing when I get over there.
How did you get a job working at Disney World!?
I basically answered and email that was sent out to all the students at Unisa, I had some friends who did the program last yeah and highly recommended it so I thought I'd check it out. I attended an information/interview session with about 30 other people where they talked to us about Disney World and the International Program itself, then got interviewed where it was basically just getting to know who we are. Two weeks later I got a call saying I got the job.
What are some of the advantages you get from working at Disney World?
Well you get free entry into all the theme parks there! That's the big one, as well as discounts galore whilst in the park itself.
What ride are you most looking forward to going on?
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN OF COURSE!!!
Will you miss us?
...No
Well that's all I can really think of at the moment, if I think of more I'll add them, especially if you bug me with more questions. Right now methinks it's time for bed.
Goodnight Internet!
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