Food running, culinary etc...

Hi all,

I am now in food running, yayyyyyyy!! It's really hard work, I come home so tired. Basically, the idea of food running is that you run the entrées to the servers table, and sometimes the appetizers and deserts. I have only had one days food running so far, it is a tipped position (the servers give you a cut of their tips)....so Saturday is my first day in a tipped position. Yesterday I had my service class at Disney uni, which involved getting up at 5:30 am to get the bus....the morning was really interesting as it was just teaching us about service the 'Disney way' etc.....it is VERY different to service in the UK, the expectations here are so much higher. The afternoon was slightly dull as it was just a whole afternoon about wine...we didn't even get to drink any!! Today I had my culinary day which was a lot of fun. I went into work in chef whites and spent a whole day in different sections of the kitchen. I started off in pantry, then moved to grills and ovens, then fish and then chippie and then I had a plate of food made up for me....I ate soooooooo much today it's unbelievable. I finished the evenings doing salads and desserts in pantry which was fun. Tomorrow is my bar day, which should be useful to get to know all of the different drinks and wines on the bar, it will all help me when I go into service training.

I think I have one more week of food running and then I begin my service training, then all I need to do is pass my test and I should be good to go.

I have 2 days off this week and then another 2 Monday and Tuesday next week. I think I am going to Universal one of the days and then Dad is coming to Orlando on the Friday...yayyyyy! I know I definitely have the Saturday off with him, just need to ensure I have the Sunday off aswell when I get my new schedule on Sunday.

That's all for now...x x

Drinking around the world!!!

Hi all,

It's Debbies birthday today, so we drank around the world yesterday, was soooooo much fun!! We started in Mexico with margaritas, then we went to Italy for wine, then Germany for some weird cherry liquor punch thing, then back to Mexico for some more margaritas, then France for another weird cocktail thing. We ate at the new pizzeria in Italy, it was reallllllllllly good, Clarissa my house mate was working so it was good to see her. We also went and played on Kidcot in Norway to see Hilde :P .

I'll put some pics up soon :D

x x

Last week on Podium!!

Hi all!

I go into food running on Saturday, so I'm enjoying my last week on podium! I went into work yesterday and as soon as I arrived into cast services it started peeing it down with rain... I had my rain coat from costuming, so I volunteered to stand outside and greet guests, I quite like the rain, it makes everything more interesting!!! I've had quite a few training shifts which have been fun, it's a great way to get to meet all of the newbies.

I go into food running on Sunday, I am at Disney University on Monday for service training, I have my culinary day on Tuesday which means I go into work in chef whites and spend time in every section of the kitchen and I get to eat LOADS of food (really looking forward to my culinary day - no surprise there), Wednesday I have my bar day - so a day behind the bar pulling pints and then Thursday and Friday off and then I have 1 more week in food running - which will be tipped $$$$ . Once I have completed my food running I will go into my service training.

Otherwise everything is good, we had lasses (happy mondays) in my apartment on Monday, Hilde (my Norwegian housemates) joined UK lasses, so she was an honorary UK lass for the evening - I am trying to persuade her to drop Flicka (that's the name for the Norwegian girls happy Mondays) and come to lasses!!!

TTFN x x x

Islands of Adventure - HARRY POTTER

Hi all,

First of all, I just want to let you all know that I have been having problems with my blog, for some reason it always crashes when I try and publish a post, so I haven't been updating because I have been unable too....hopefully this will work fine!

I went to Harry Potter land at Universals Islands of Adventure on Monday, I went with some of the girlies from work. I bought my years pass also, so now I can get unlimited access ... wuhoo!! Harry Potter was excellent, it's great anyway, but as I am a massive Harry Potter fan it was even better. The ride is unbelievable, I won't say what it's like just in case I ruin it for someone, but it really is amazing, not at all what you expect! The actual Harry Potter land is based around Diagon Alley in the book, you can go into Honey Dukes sweet shop...they had chocolate frogs and everything! I also had a butter beer which was a bit of a disappointment, it comes with a butterscotch topping, which when mixed with the fizzy drink kind of looks a little like a dirty pint!! Had a really good day though, was really tiring as we park hopped and went over to Universal Studios aswell....we then came home and went to Lasses (Happy Mondays) in the evening, where we met the Mexican lads, was good fun!!

Here are some pictures from Harry Potter and Happy Mondays with the Mexican lads.

- Girlies at Happy Mondays (Fancy dress - Characters).

- Getting ready to drink against the Mexican lads.

- Entrance to Harry Potter.

- Me with Voldermorts wand....

K x x

I PASSED MY PRE SERVICE TEST!

Hi all,

I passed my service test, yayyyyy, I got 97% which I am so pleased about. I wasn't sure if I would have passed or not. You have to know the whole menu to be able to pass, and the main ingredients to all of the dishes. The salads in the appetisers and the pies in the entrées always confused me because there was so many ingredients to remember, I had to name all of the ingredients for the mixed greens and also the vegetarian Shepherds Pie, I went completely mind blank when I had to name the pie ingredients....but obviously didn't do that bad. I will hopefully get a date for food running within the next couple of days and then I food run for 1/2 weeks and then I go into begin my service training and then I serve my managers!

My shifts at work are a little rubbish this week, I have quite a few late shifts, but I think that may be because a lot of the podium / chippie staff have moved into service. There was a new arrival group last week, so I have quite a few training shifts coming up which I enjoy!

I didn't do much on my days off this week as I was revising for my pre-service...I go to Miami in a couple of weeks though, we are only going for 1 night, the 30th Sept - 1st Oct.

TTFN x x

Hi all,

First of all, I am so sorry I haven't updated in a while, sooooo much has been going on and I just haven't had the time. Last week I worked loads and loads of hours and it was a little strange as Gemma went home :( ...

It was my birthday last Monday, we went out to House of Blues on the Sunday night. Hilde, Morgan and I went to Animal Kingdom on the Monday and then Morgan, Becky and I went on to Magic Kingdom for Wishes. I got my first magical moment on Splash Mountain (my fave ride...in case I haven't mentioned that before), I came off the ride and all the cast members were at the bottom singing Happy Birthday and they gave me the free ride pic.

I am being made an official Disney trainer :D ... we had a meeting about it last week, we have to have an interview with our boss and another training boss and then we can organise the training class. I have already had a few training shifts, I trained 2 new starters on chippie tills yesterday and we were only 1 cent out when we banked out at the end of the day ... wup!

I have 2 days off at the end of this week...really looking forward to chilling by the pool. I think we may be going to see Fantasmic on Thursday night. I haven't been to the pool in 3 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!

I promise I'll update again really really soon!

xxxxxx

A bit of Disney Magic …

Just wanted to drop a quick blog post to say that yesterday I had a really good day and realised why I love this job!!!!!!!

I was in the chippie and met a family from Bristol, we were chatting away for a bit and then they went and carried on with their day. Later on in the evening I was seating guests in the Rose and Crown and I sat the same family that I was speaking to in the chippie earlier from Bristol, we got chatting a bit more about my year and things and then I left them to eat their meal. I ended up having my shift extended yesterday so instead of finishing at 8:30pm, I finished at 9pm. At around 8:45pm I went back to the podium after clearing some tables and the little girl from the family from Bristol was sat behind the podium as good as gold, apparently she was cold inside and came out to warm up. I sat down with her and had a chat, she was so sweet, she was telling me about her trip to the bibbidi bobbidi boutique (you get transformed into a princess), we were chatting for about 15 minutes, she was even asking me about what I wanted to do when I got home from Disney, she was only about 9 years old…really nice young girl! After a while her family came out and thanked me and wished me all the best for my year. It just shows that the really little things can really make your day and realise that what you’re doing is really worthwhile…cheese on toast I know, but that little girl really made my day :D