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sooo I guess I suck at updating this thing....

I turned 23. ah. Luckily I have been able to celebrate my birthday in the mountains, Disney World, Athens, and Milly. so I guess its been an okay birthday.

Next weekend I am going camping with MFB and BAJ so its not over yet! :)

I graduate in 15 days! oh my gosh!!! I will be completely done FOREVER on May 28th!!!!! AHHHH!!! I can hardly stand it!

Nothing new with Disney yet, just class, work, class, work, dog, class, work, dog, sleep with a little family and friends sprinkled in every now and then.

Anyways Ill update when I have more exciting things to update on.

All about Me :)

Disney Survey thingy
p.s.- thats my niece in the picture

1. Your name?: Kari
2. Are you legal (over 21)?: Yes
3. Male or female?: Female
4. Gay, straight, bi (optional): Straight
5. Where do you live?: Right now... Milledgeville, Georgia.... but I am from Conyers, GA
6. What role will you have at Disney?: Recreation
7. What are your arrival/departure dates/program (fall, fall advantage, fall quarter)?: Fall, August 18th

8. Which apartment complex would you prefer to live at? Patterson or Chatham 9. How many roommates/rooms would you like? (1-7 roommates, 1-4 rooms)?: 5 roommates is good for me.
10. Do you like to party? Will you be hosting parties in your apartment?: I like to go out and hang with people occasionally, but I also like to stay in and have movie and pizza night with my friends! As far as hosting goes: I plan on not having the money for all that.
11. What's your favorite food, and more importantly, can you cook well?: My favorite food is anything Mexican. I can cook if I put my mind to it and have the time...
12. If your friends could describe you in three words what would they be?: happy, energetic, and stubborn

13. What kind of music/movies do you like?: I seriously like all music. Maybe not screamo scary stuff, but everything else. As far as movies go, I like to watch Romantic Comedies and Adventure movies.
14. Do you smoke, and if so, inside or outside?: No, I have asthma. Me and smoke don't mix
15. Are you a night person or a morning person?: Eh as much as I try to be a morning person, Im definitely a night owl. But if I have to get up in the morning I can do it and be happy. It just depends. haha
16. Are you driving or flying down?: Driving
17. What do you do for fun?: Spend time with friends, go out to eat, watch tv/movies, read, shop, exercise
18. What is your favorite quote?: "His ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts." Isaiah 55:8
19. What are you most excited about in being in the WDWCP?: how completely different and exciting this CP is going to be than my last one. :)
20. Favorite things to do when not working: Sleeping and hanging out with my friends!
21. Name one good quality about yourself: I smile and laugh at anything and everything.
22. Name one bad quality about yourself: I get really nervous and worked up about the silliest little things and it takes a special person to know how to calm me down. MOM :)

23: Your college: Georgia College & State University
24: Your major: Business Management
25. Any medical conditions (optional): Asthma
26. Are you messy/tidy?: I try to be tidy when living with others. I can let my space get cluttered, but I always know where everything is.
27. Anything else you want to state: I like the beach and my family, especially my mom mean the whole world to me.
28. Favorite Disney movie? Peter Pan
29. How many times have you been to Disney? Multiple times every year since I was one month old
30. Favorite park? EPCOT. Studios close behind. I LOVE Magic Kingdom and it will always have a very special and loving place in my heart, but sometimes its way to crazy there for me. Maybe since I won't be working there this time around I'll let it move back up to second place. EPCOT is still the bomb.com
31. Favorite ride? Tower of Terror
32. Favorite show? The Bachelor and America's Next Top Model

33. Favorite resort? Polynesian
34. Favorite dining? at Disney....Kona Cafe and Earl of Sandwhich. Off property...Chilis and Qdoba
35. Favorite character? Tinkerbell
36. I prefer to sleep in a room that: DARK with cool air. I hate being hot when I sleep
37. I like to go to bed: Whenever I am tired
38. I sleep better when the room is: Dark, cool, and quiet...but I do like some noise like a fan or something b/c when its like completely silent it drives me crazy
39. I would prefer guests: That don't yell at me on Christmas Day or New Years.
40. I absolutely could not live with a roommate that: yells all the time or smokes inside
41. Do you snore: No, but I do talk in my sleep. If Im stressed or worried about something I tend to talk a lot. oopsy.
42. On your day off..what time would you wake up: 10 or 11. depending on how late I worked the day before.

"I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things." -Walt Disney

My list of things that I didn't get to do on my first program that I would like to accomplish this time around :)

1) Universal Studios...I know blasphemy, but I would like to go once!

2) ICE

3) Fireworks Cruise...but maybe I will be working on the Fireworks cruises....*fingers crossed*

4) Holy Land Experience

5) Eat in the France, Italy, & Japan Pavilions at EPCOT

6) Go to more housing events if I can...at least to get the food. haha

7) Keep up with my blog more. Luckily this time I won't be taking any classes, so hopefully that will be easier.

8) Go to the beach more than once. Seems strange to say it, but I only went once in the entire 5 months I was there.

9) Go to see a shuttle launch. I watched one from my porch, but I want to be up close!

10)Ride TOT at least 1000 times...Its totally going to happen

11) Sea World

12) Busch Gardens

13) Visit Celebration

14) Volunteer with Give Kids the World

15) Go to the water parks more. Went to Typhoon once. Blizzard once. Completely unacceptable.

16) Attend more concerts/shows at HOB.

17) Two words. Pasta parties. That is all.

18) Stop at the sunglass shop on Vineland Ave. where the people are always waving and smiling.

19) Parasailing

20) Horseback Riding

21) Putt Putt at Winter Summerland

There will be more added to this list as I think of things. :)

Its all coming together...kind of?

Soooo Midterms are over. Thank God! Now all I need is for my dad to miraculously stand up tomorrow and be waiting at home for me. :( One day it will happen...one day.

I have decided to live in CP housing because it is like a 10 page document you have to fill out to even be considered to live in another apartment. Kind of ridiculous if you ask me. I would also have to pay the $100 assessment fee or whatever its called and not get to go to any housing events, so I just decided to suck it up and live in CP housing. Delilah will have to live at Meemaw's house until I can get a routine and figure out where I'll move after the program. I feel horrible leaving her and I feel horrible asking my mom to take care of her, but I don't know what else to do and I know its whats best for her. I just hope she doesn't forget who I am. :/

On another note, I do have a roommate for CP housing. She was a camp counselor with me and she is graduating from UGA. I am really excited about the fun we will have sharing a room! It will be like camp all over again. haha :) I hope we have some equally cool apartment mates, but I don't know if anyone is going to compare to my roommates from the first program....Megan and I sure were blessed with some awesome girls.

Hopefully AMANDA will be back down in Florida....SHE BETTER BE!

Maria will be there and I plan on hanging out with her during every breathing moment. Yes, that is right Maria, you will want to call me boo boo. :)

My next blog will be a list of things that I would like to do during this next CP that I didn't get to do on my last CP, so GET EXCITED!!!

This isnt letting put the pictures where I want so I give up. I tried to have a picture with Maria, but its not cooperating. LAME

TODAY TODAY TODAY!!!

SOOOO today I got an email that read...

Dear Kari,

Congratulations! You have been selected to participate as a Recreation Cast Member on the Disney College Program in the Fall 2010 Season.

We look forward to the magic you will bring to the Walt Disney World® Resort and are thrilled about the opportunity we have to include you in our Disney family!

Sincerely,
Disney College Recruiting

AHHHH!!! This was my number one choice!! I am beyond excited!!! I cannot wait to see where this journey is going to take me! I could hardly breathe as I read the email and I re-read it like 6 times to make sure I had read it correctly! I am soooo thrilled to be working in a completely different area of Walt Disney World!!!! Now I have to decide whether or not to live in CP housing or to find a different place...I have a dog now so shes a big factor in that decision. Anyways I can worry about all that later! I am just ecstatic at the moment.

Yes I know I slacked on the blog, but I will try to be better! More updates coming soon! :)

Peace, Love, and Mickey Mouse :)

Tomorrow shall be a day of updates...

dear blog,

I have not forgotten you. Life got in the way. I am in desperate need of you. See you soon.

love,
me :)

Oh hello there world!

Wellllll lots has happened since August. haha! I promise I haven't forgotten about this thing, but by the time I am done with work, classes, sleeping, laundry, other random things I barely have two seconds. I have had to journal everyday for my internship credit through GCSU so I have been keeping up with the work aspect of this experience through that, but I haven't posted it on here...maybe I will start....haha.

Anyways here are some highlights and I will try to be better at this thing!

• Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party- AWESOME! I have been to two. One with my family and one with Megan. I might be going to another one next week with a girl from work, but I don't have a costume and she wants to dress up, so we will see.
• I got to see my Uncle Don and Aunt Karen for the first time in 19 or so years. It was so wonderful and they are so fun! My uncle is JUST like my dad. Kinda scary, but Megan totally agreed. Oh those Mateling genes. ;)
• Food and Wine Festival- Absolutely incredible. I love this festival. Just trying all the foods from all the different countries and lets not forget those "slushies" in France. ooh boy! Those are my favorite! It lasts until November 5th so hopefully I will get to go a lot!
• Working in Fantasyland at Winnie the Pooh, Snow White, and Teacups. Sometimes its rough, but the good things definitely outway the bad things. I have met a lot of friends and a lot of my fellow castmembers are super nice. Of course Magic Kingdom has LATE LATE hours a lot of times and I never get to see Megan, but oh well what can ya do?
• Labor Day with the parents and boyfriend :) Fun times. More to come :)
• My favorite places to eat so far: Rainforest Cafe, T-Rex, Tijuana(spelling?) Flats, Earl of Sandwich(thanks to my aunt and uncle), Chili's (duh), and EPCOT F&W fest! haha
• Walking in the tunnels everyday is still really cool to me. It is just crazy to think that I am UNDER the Magic Kingdom. haha! how many people can say they have walked UNDER the castle? not many! I also like walking side by side with Cinderella or Snow White or any of the characters. That is so cool to me!
• Getting a real dose of the real world. It is crazy and overwhelming sometimes, but I think I might be starting to get the swing of things. I feel like I have already grown a lot and have become more independent. I still need my parents for things and I still get homesick, but that is normal. I miss my family so much but I know they will be here soon. I just have to take it one day at a time and when I start to feel down I remember that I am at the Happiest Place on Earth and I go to a park. haha. Usually EPCOT because it is so chill there.
• Losing 20 pounds! weee! That is a real confidence booster. I am almost back down to the weight I was my freshman year. I like where I am right now so I am not intentionally losing weight. It is just all the work and heat.
• Living with Megan has been great too. I am glad we are here together! I also like all my roommates they are all so friendly and fun!

Well that is all for now. I will put pictures up later! love, peace and mickey mouse!