#ajdoesdisney

Aside from this, much has happened since my last update about 2 months ago. I became a Disney trainer, took a spontaneous trip up to NYC, and ringing in 2016 at the end of a 15 hour shift with my Canadian pavilion family, are some of the highlights of the last 2 months. I’m going skydiving next week, and my brother is getting married in April in the Dominican Republic, but what the next 5 months have in store is still mostly a mystery.

I’m slowly coming up to 5 months here in the Sunshine State and working for the Mouse. Life just keeps going on and I’m just barely managing to keep up. I can’t believe I’m almost half way through this year long contract, when it feels like I boarded that flight from Toronto to Orlando just last week. 

When I first started this program, someone told me that the people you start this program with will not always be the people you will end it with. This far into the program, I’m starting to see this. You meet so many people down here that a lot of the time it is hard to build meaningful and lasting relationships. I hate how temporary everything here feels, but as time moves on, you just have to roll with it. All good things come to an end eventually, but in the end you will have memories of a time and place when this was everything you ever wanted.

I’ve been down here for just over 3 months and time is just flying. Days blend together and weeks turn into months. In the time from my last post, I have moved units, gotten a new housemate, became a member of a drinking team, joined the safety committee at work, been to both coasts of Florida, had my family come down to visit, lost 5 pounds, and became a program greeter for Canada, among other things.

I still love everything about working and living here and with time going by so fast, it kind of scares me. What happens when all of this comes to an end? Let’s be real, I am on a 1 year vacation where I happen to be working and making money. I am blessed to be where I am right now and I am very thankful for that, but when I go back home and reality hits again, then what? I guess it is a little early to be thinking about it, but before I know it I will be packing my bags and boarding a flight back for Toronto.

So it has been about a month and a half since I made the move to Central Florida. I have settled pretty well into my new job and my new environment. My life nowadays pretty much consists of work during the day and partying at night, with time for chores in between.

A quiet moment to myself is hard to come by these days, and as someone with strong introvert tendencies I need these moments to recharge. I have found myself going to church weekly to find some peace and solitude, something I have never done on my own accord at home. I have always found a safe haven in my faith and relationship with God, but never found it necessary to attend mass on Sundays until I moved down here. Needless to say, the one hour a week I spend at church has really helped me to transition into this new chapter of my life.

As for the partying (it literally happens every night here) it truly defines and rounds out the experience of moving down here. More on this to come in future posts.

Anyways, as you may or may not know I recently moved to Orlando, FL for one year to work. It’s an opportunity that I’ve dreamt about since starting college, and two years after finishing school I’ve finally made it. I’m still in awe of where I am right now, not just location wise, but life in general. It was not easy to get to where I am now, but for that I am even more grateful for this opportunity.