MAJOR UPDATES FOR YOU ALL !!!

June 15th 2008:

Today was my last day off for the rest of the week!! I decided to pop into work and go sort out getting on "The Hub". For those of you non-Disney people reading, "The Hub" is a place where we manage our hours and schedule our days off, we can plan our whole working life over the net which is pretty neat! You can see your schedule and also how much you are going to be paid in your next pay check! Its pretty vital. Anyway i had a problem registering on it when we did our online classes, in fact our whole class had problems so we never got it sorted. But i went to IT at work and they did it all for me and got me registered on it!!!! Job one down!

Then i went to go say "hi" to everyone at the marina and stuff. But i was walking past the water slide and i felt a huge splash of water on my head, looked up, and saw hot boy at work with a bucket in his hand!! Was not impressed!! So went up the tower and with the help of a few kids, got him absolutely drenched! It was the funniest thing ever because as soon as the kids cottoned on to the fact that there was gonna be a water fight at the top of the slide, they all grabbed buckets and helped me. I was killing myself laughing, it was deffo a good payback! So then...down comes the rain and cue the thunder and lightning while Sam is at the top of a tower!! I was sooooo scared, there was no way i was going outside the tower and getting struck by lightning! The storm was actually pretty amazing though once i had warmed to the idea that i might be ok, and not die from a freak weather incident!!! So it was a good and bad storm I suppose!! It was hilarious either way!!!

So obviously today was also fathers day which I found really hard. I miss my Dad more than he will ever know when I am in Liverpool or at home in England so to be in America and hear his voice and miss spending the day with him kind of made me stop and think for a minute about just how much I do miss him and how much I love him. This whole experience has made me see how much I treasure my family. I can’t describe how much I wish they could be here with me and because I work with children and see families all day, I found myself getting one of those evil lumps in the back of my throat and I struggled not to cry when we were talking on the phone. Its not because I am sad to be here, because I love this experience and everything about my life here. I just miss him and the rest of my family so much. I think days like this,under all the cards and whatever, really do remind me of how important people like my Daddy are to me and how much I love them and would never want to be without them in my life. I have been through a lot with my family and they have always been around and done their best to support and encourage me in all my hopes and dreams. So today I am dedicating my blog to the worlds best Daddy, to my bestest friend, to a man I would never want to be without, Andy Hopkinson, aka Dad. I love you so much. Happy Fathers Day xxx


June 16th 2008:
Today I was sooo tired. I was back to work and I felt like I had not even been off, getting up this morning was killer and my shift at work sucked ass because the weather was playing games and we kept closing and opening the pool and nobody was even there so I had no kids to be silly with which is the best part of my job.
Was actually not happy to be at work today which is a first for me but then again I suppose everyone has bad and good days so it’ll even out soon I am sure.

June 17th 2008:

Ok so today was pretty average and uneventful at work so I am gonna skip the boring parts and cut forward to tonight because it was hilarious!!
Me and Angelica decided to go and cash in our cheques at Walmart, however when we got there we found it hard to even comprehend the crazy and extremely rude Spanish women working behind the counter. First, they decided to serve Spanish people first, that’s right, they ignored the cue and just bumped them in front, which we were highly unamused by. Then we finally got to the desk and the woman was like, no we don’t cash cheques here, you need to go to the money counter and I was like…well is it open?! And then she was like… erm yeah but it shuts in like 6 minutes. So we bombed it through Walmart to the other end of the store and managed to get there on time. BUT YET AGAIN WE HAD A SPANISH WOMAN! She was talking and I was like (IN MY HEAD )…I know she is trying to communicate but I just don’t quite understand what you are on about!!! So we finally established that we can’t cash cheques without a social security number (which Disney hasn’t given us yet!!!!!!!) so we asked where the hell we could actually access our money and she was like “everywhere is closed”. But I was like oh hell no!! So we walked round Walmart and finally found an American woman who spoke English instead of nonsense and we found out that there is actually a place that’s open where we could go! So by this point we are Spanish hating pissed off tourists! So we get to AMSCOP (the place where we could actually cash in our cheques) and we are telling this guy about our crazy Spanish hating experience and how annoying it is and how confusing America is and stupid it is. And then he is like well I am SPANISH AND AMERICAN so basically we had just stood there and slagged off both his cultural heritages!!! I was like oooooooooooooppppppppppppppssssssssssss but he was cool about it and we were chatting away to him.
Then we were walking back and there were some biker boys and women sitting around and there was this crazy trike all lit up and so i was like "WOW" and they let me and Angelica sit on it!It was crazy, they are gonna e-mail us the picture of it as well!!So that was pretty cool!!
Then we finally got to Walmart and decided we were starving so we went to this SONIC place to eat and i found out what Tatoe Tots were and tried this thing called a Slushie which is like real fruit all blended in with ice, its sooo nice!! I loved it! We also had really lovely people serving us and we told them that we were gonna make them a great service award cos their manager was poopie and didn't do one!!!


June 18th 2008:
Ok guys so now we are back on track and up to speed, gosh that took like forever! Its so hard remembering what I have done each day cos I am hardly ever aware of what day it is anyway, that’s why I try and blog about my day at night straight away!!!So sorry that the blog is a bit sketchy!!I will do 18th and 19th tomorrow!
Night xxx