Hoodies

When I got home from Uni on Friday, there was a lovely package waiting for me! I knew it was my Cast Member hoodie because a lot of other people had already got theirs. I was a bit nervous about opening because I ordered a size Medium because I didn't want it to be too small but then I was worrying a Medium would be too big! Anyway when I opened it, the hoodie looked really wide so I panicked a bit. Anyway when I tried it on it wasn't too bad, not too big and not too small so it was fine. I ordered it in a Navy colour as well and it is a very dark navy because it looks like its black! Oh well, the design shows up really well on the dark colours so I don't mind :) I'm really happy with it but now I'm too scared to wear it in case I ruin it! Haha. Ive uploaded a couple of pictures of it below.

My visa appointment is also a week today! Quite scared! My mum and sister are now coming down to London with me, so it shouldn't be too bad, I hope I don't have to wait ages in the embassy because I want some time to go shopping as spend some time with my mum and sister rather than just meeting them at the station or something. Some people have said they have been in and out the embassy in an hour but some others have been in there for about 4 hours! A lot of people have interviews on the same day as me so I am betting that I am in there a while!

69 Days!!

Not long now :)

Im really really bored sat in my room at Uni, so thought I'd do a little post. It is now 76 days until I fly to America which is the exact number of days I will be spending out there :) Now that I have done most of the preperation I am just really excited to get out there. I love the American way of life so much. I've only been to Florida once last August for two weeks but I just loved it. I loved the way everything is so big and branded, even though thats probably a bad thing but I just love how it is so much different to the UK. I also love the weather, obviously. The sun is so nice and I even like the rain over there cos it cools you down and the sun goes in for a while :)

I'm also excited to do everything that I didn't do last time, like some of the rides we had to miss out cos we had such busy days. I'd like to go back to do that but I would NEVER EVER go back on Tower of Terror, no one will ever get me back on that ride, it was the worst feeling ever, I can't stand freefall!

I would love to be able to go and see some more of the shows and parades again, I think they are so good. I love the Cinderella castle at night with the lights and the fireworks, I can't wait to see it again. I just love Disney haha. Anyway this was just a little post cos I was bored :) 76 days!!!

I'm not a criminal :)

This last week has been quite hectic, after scheduling my Visa appointment, I still had quite a few things to do. Whilst at home over the weekend I paid my SEVIS fee, don't actually know what it is for :/, but it was $35 so about £22 which isn't that bad. I then had to print out the confirmation of this so I can take it to my Visa appointment. It then had to fill out my Visa application online, it was so stressful and annoying. I had to take a passport type picture for it but I couldn't take a decent one so had to just use a really bad one! I hope the picture doesn't actually end up on the Visa in my passport! Anyway, I then had to pretty much answer questions about my whole life, it also asked me if I had ever kidnapped a child or made a child into a soldier, I'm really not that weird!! The page also kept freezing so I had to wait ages, then when it asked me for my work history, it only let me put 2 jobs in! Anyway I finally got it done and printed out the confirmation that I also need to take to the embassy with me. There's so much paper work, I bet I forget to take something.

Now all I need to do is pay my program assessment fee which is $100 and get medical insurance which is £100 again :( Hopefully I can get these paid soon though so I'm all ready to go! I really can't wait for the hot weather, so cold in England. I also got my CRB check back, which says I'm not a criminal!!! Obviously I knew that though haha. I also need to go shopping for some Summer clothes! Its just an excuse to go shopping haha. Also found out the Hoodies should be here by the 22nd! So only a few days away :)

Only 78 days to go until I go to Disney!!!

I'm going to Disney World!!!

Yesterday, I got up and got the train back to Uni in Preston after being home for the weekend, as soon as I got back to my flat, everyone had received their Welcome Packs! Can't believe I only just missed them coming! I was so annoyed. Later on I rang home to see if mine had come, and it had, so I got my mum to open it for me and to read some of the things for me. I found out I get paid $7.67 an hour!! Thought it would be a bit more but the majority of roles get paid this amount and I think we get time and a half for working over 40 hours a week or something which will most likely happen. This was on my official job offer letter :) makes it feel a bit more real now that I have a letter directly from Disney!

I also really needed to get my Visa appointment booked in London as I didn't want all the appointments to be taken. So I got my mum to scan all the information about it and email it to me. However, the scanner wouldn't work, so she had to take photos of the letters with the Ipad and email them to me, but the pictures were blurry!  In the end I just got the Embassy number off the Yummy jobs instructions that they sent us a couple of weeks ago and got the information that I needed and rung up on my mobile. But that didn't work cos my mobile wouldn't let me ring cos it costs too much! So after ringing my mum and dad back, they decided to ring the Embassy for me to book an appointment, I was a bit scared in case they got it wrong or something but it all turned out fine :) My appointment is in the Easter holidays, which is good so that I don't miss any uni, and I think my mum will be able to come down to London with me :) I am gonna have to get like the 7am train as my appointment is at 11.30 then ill have to find my way to the Embassy from the station but I think I will be fine!

Now all I need to do is pay another fee for my visa just before I go to London, then I need to pay my program assessment fee to secure my job and housing. I think my parents are paying my medical insurance so thats not too bad :) I have also found out that Hoodies should be coming next week!!!! Can't wait, Im gonna wear it all the time haha!

Anyway only 84 days to go!!!!
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Visa's!!!

I got an email from Yummy Jobs (the agency that Disney use to recruit from the UK) which told me that I should be receiving my Welcome pack through the post soon! In the Welcome pack it gives us instructions of how to book our Visa appointments, I thought it would be easy, just ring up to book it, head down to London and back again, but it is so complicated and expensive! I have to ring up at a cost of £1.24 a minute, then pay a $140 fee, then choose an appointment, then pay another $35 fee, then pay for travel down to London which will be about £50, then pay £14 for them to send my passport back to me! Ends up at about £200! Plus there are a million different forms I have to fill in and loads of documents I need to take! Oh well, hopefully it will all be worth it in the end.

I can't wait to actually receive my official Disney job offer letter, I think it will start to make things feel a bit more real. I also managed to find a couple of other people doing Recreation. I only thought there was me and another girl but I have found another two people. None of us have any idea about what we will actually be doing over there, I just really want to know. I hope I get to be a slide operator in the water parks, I would love to do that, but I suppose I will enjoy whatever I get to do. Working in a hotel would also be great as it would be easier when my family come over to stay :)

Anyway I am still waiting to receive my Welcome pack, then I am going to get organising my Visa appointment. The cast hoodies should also be arriving in the next couple of weeks too! Can't wait to get mine. 91 days to go!!!!