First Days

well today isn't really my first day
yesterday was
but in terms of Disney related activities and housing orientation
today is my first day..

Yesterday however i landed at like 6am, retrieved my luggage( that didnt go missing YAY), found the Mears desk, found the pay phone to call Mears as there desk was closed due to it being so early in the morning (FYI the sun doesn't even get up a 6am!) and finally i was picked up from the parking area by a Mears van at like 7.30 - 8 ish...

the bus took me to Chatham Square (i found out i was living there like a day prior to my arrival as Disney sent me an email telling me that i should go directly there instead of vista way) where i picked up my information pack that had my apartment key inside and the nice security guard pointed me in the direction of building 17, apartment 108 (i think, i still cant remember the exact number)

so i lugged all my bags down there, knocked, no answer so i some how managed to use the key and let myself in... i walked into quite a small lounge room and kitchen with only one connecting door, assuming it was the bedroom and that no one else was in the apartment, i went in to find out my room mate was fast asleep and me barging in scared the crap out of her! we spoke for a few minutes and realised she was the other Australian ICP who arrived the night before...i had been speaking to her on facebook before i arrived, her names Felice, shes 21 and from Sydney (well a few hours away, but same difference!)

we only spoke briefly as i could clearly tell she was still half asleep, also i realised at this time that it was only a 2 person apartment, sightly relived that there was only two of us, kinda makes things easier, but at the same time i would have loved to been with a few other people from maybe anywhere but Australia! anyway i left her to sleep, used the Internet for a little while and fell asleep myself on the couch, thinking i would be there for maybe an hour or so, this was at like 9 am and i didn't wake up until like 2pm!!!!!!!!!!

i didn't even wake myself up, i got such a scare (probably in return of what i did to Felice a few hours earlier!) by Disney housing people coming to do a room inspection! i was like "ah we have only been here a matter of hours, there wont be much to inspect besides suitcases". They realised there maybe wasn't any need to check out the state of the apartment, instead they starting to talk to us and spray for bugs.. after they left we both got ready and headed to Wallmart as we had no orientation that day

about 3 hours late, 3 pillows, 1 duvet, a bundle of random stuff, food and some cheese in a can! we caught a taxi back to Chatham to unpack it all, talk about a mission to get it from the front security gate all the way to our apartment, a nice American boy helped us, despite one of the many bags breaking!

we finally got everything back, all in one piece. unpacked it all to find we forgot stuff! but hey that was bound to happen as we were both extremely jet lagged! the rest of the night wasn't all that exciting, we ate, then went to bed... thanks jet lag thanks!

the next day (being the 19Th) we had orientation for housing etc. due to jet lag i was up and awake at like 6.30am, but i ate breakfast, bummed on the Internet, got ready and headed over to the commons where it was being held...
we both arrived to find that we were the only 2 not from china! needless to say it wasn't very hard to spot the Aussie! as that's what one of the Disney housing people did, they walked over and were like "amber, Felice!" so it was clearly obvious we were the odd ones out. Anyway they singled us out because we were going to do all our paperwork by our self with a man named Robert by the commons pool, it was sooooo nice and relaxing, and we got it all done in like half an hour opposed to spread over 2 days like it normally is. Then Robert informed us that all we had left to do was listen to a short speech about the housing rules, then go to Vista later that day and get our housing Id's and that was is, the following day Felice had to go to Traditions, and all i had to do was go to access control and pick up my id...

so we did everything we had to (hate my housing ID!!) then headed back to Wallmart to buy cork boards and a few other bits and pieces and some DVDs, which we watched that night whilst eating dinner then headed to bed and that's about it!

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