Ariel, listen to me. The human world is a mess. Life under the sea is better than anything they got up there.

^^Life in Disney is better than anything!

TOMORROW I LEAVE FOR WALT DISNEY WORLD!
Yay I've been looking forward to this weekend, especially now that midterms and such are over, its a nice getaway. Of course I did have mixed feelings because it is Halloween weekend that I will be missing but I figure a trip to Florida cancels out any need to stay at Mason just for a holiday.

Onto DCP news, nothing actually new is going on. I did sign up for a class. All the classes offered by Disney are really interesting and I wish I could take them all. Some of them are "real" classes that reminded me of classes I will be taking at Mason, so I decided to skip those because I won't get credit. The other types of classes they offer are the Exploration Series, which seem to be the most popular of what people are taking. Most of the people I see on the facebook groups signed up for the Disney Heritage  which seems really cool because it involves a scavenger hunt and such. I chose to sign up for the Guest Services course. It sounds really fun and it is going to help me learn more about the field I'm trying to go into at Disney. Another thing I found out about is that you can ask to "shadow" another role when you have free time. I am definitely going to take advantage of this since I didn't get my first choice- Hospitality. So after I get comfortable in my MEO position I'm going to talk to managers to find out how I go about shadowing a role. And since I want to ask to extend to Spring Advantage (till august), I'm pretty sure I can try to switch my role. I found out that not everyone will get permission to extend- you have to have a clean record throughout the program and there needs to be positions open. So I'll have to keep my fingers crossed when its time to apply to extend.

After a lot of discussion and contemplating I've decided to finish my degree at George Mason. I have a lot of catching up to do, and trying to transfer on top of that is way to stressful. So currently here is the plan:

• Finish this semester up in December
• Take the spring/summer off for the DCP
• Take 18 credits for the fall semester at Mason
• Take 18 credits for the spring semester at Mason
• Take 6-9 credits at a community college during the summer, or live in VA and take classes at Mason
• Take 18 credits for the fall at Mason 
• Apply for the DCP again and apply for the Disney Professional Internship
• Graduate in Decemeber
• Hopefully do the DCP or PI for the spring and officially move my life down to Florida

So that is the master plan and we'll see how it works. Taking a semester off is going to make things a lot more rough for me but this program is super important to me. To me it is worth graduating a semester behind my friends, and loading on the work. I'll probably be pretty stressed out during the rest of college but I think at the end of the day it'll all be worth it!

Well off to packing and finishing some homework!
Off to the happiest place on earth in the morning with the family.

Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind. Or forgotten. - Lilo