Exploring Disney Heritage: Week Four

I can't believe that this week is already the fourth week of class. Even crazier is there are only ten weeks left in my Spring program. WHAT?! This week in class we talked about the theme parks. Disney theme parks are, of course, my favorite part of this company and we focused mostly on my favorite park of them all: Disneyland. We got to watch a lot of neat videos of opening day and "re-opening" of the park, openings of attractions like the Matterhorn, the Monorail, and the Submarine Voyage. It was neat to see how far things have come but it was also neat to see how things were back then. Everything was just so different, from the way people talked, dressed, their mannerisms, it was all beautiful, in my opinion. This week's session was just another reminder of how special Walt was and how special the things he did were.

Next week will be very exciting because next week's class takes place IN Magic Kingdom. We don't have to dress in business casual (thank God), and I'm sure it will be a very fun class!

Disney Heritage: Week Two

This week's Heritage class was about "Walt and Roy: The Original Dream Team." I had another tear jerker moment when we watched some interviews with the Disney family regarding Walt's death. At the end of our session we got to play with toy monorails, which was a lot of fun! Heritage is definitely my favorite of my two classes because I get to learn about one of my favorite figures: Walt Disney.

Merchandise Tier 2: Merchantainment

Today I had my Merchantainment class at Disney University where I learned how to use the registers. They have a room full of registers and we learned how to use a bunch of functions on them. The actual practicing on the registers was the part I liked but there was a lot of us sitting and them talking to us for extended periods of time. Those were the parts I was fighting HARD to keep my eyes open. 

All of the first part was from 8:00am-12:15pm and then we broke for lunch. After lunch, guess what it was time for? MORE E-LEARNING! WOO! -.- I have decided that I really don't prefer the E-Learning modules. I understand they're necessary, but that doesn't make them any less boring! 

I got home around 2:30 and was able to clean the apartment and do laundry. I think Sydney and I are going to go to the parks right now depending on how the weather plays out! I have work at 7:00am, ouch, but then I have two days off and so does Emily and we can't WAIT to hit the parks together some more!!!