Traditions (and casting)

There is a class that every new Disney cast member has to go through before they start their training with the company. This class is called Traditions.

When I arrived, I had my own version of what my schedule for the week would be like:
Monday-
check in
get settled in my apartment
Tuesday-
go to casting, get my badge and find out my work location
Wednesday-
go to Traditions
Thursday-
Begin training for new job

Unfortunately, I quickly found out that this would not be the case. My first week ended up looking more like this...


Monday-
Check in= standing in line filling out tons of paperwork, getting my housing ID and finding out my work location
Going to apartment and getting settled in/grocery shopping (bring $200 for this)
Tuesday-
Go to casting, admit your not a criminal, then prove it with your fingerprints(only took an hour)
Sit around and do noting for the rest of the day
Wednesday-
sit around and do nothing
Thursday-
sit around and do nothing
Friday- 
sit around and do nothing till 1:20pm
go to traditions class till 8pm (long class right?) get temp access to the parks and badge
Saturday-Tuesday
Sit around waiting for something to happen
tour my work location (Saturday morning)
hit the parks a bit
Wednesday-
Finally start first day of training

So if you didn't notice, there was a lot of time sitting around doing nothing. This is because we did not get access to the parks until our traditions class and i was the unlucky one who was put in the last group (Friday night). No access to the parks till after traditions.

I have heard so many different things about the traditions class, and honestly i think they change it frequently.
What I've heard in the past is that we learn about all the little quirks of Disney like the "Disney two finger point" or the pretty way to pick up trash. My traditions was not that. We spent most of the time learning about serving the guests and being a part of the magic. It was really interesting and fun if you make it fun. And if your facilitators rock like mine did (go Alyssa and Roxanne)! And i won some characters for answering questions in class.



So overall it was a good day, and relaxing week. Unfortunately it gave me a way to high level of laziness that totally came back to bite me in the butt.

Random fact #3 - Gaps equals naps. Love them while they last cause I already know i wont be getting many during this program. (Shout out to Ruth and Sarah)