November

With the end of November fastly approaching I was thinking how much I've done this month! With all the placement meetings and interviews for Disney, Canada and South Carolina! Also been trying to do all my essays and reports for class so I can leave Manchester early to spend more time in Essex over the christmas period. My lovely friend Ciara (who came travelling with me at the end of the Disney Summer program) has booked us in for a 2 night spa stay with treatments! So excited and the place looks amazing you can see it here, its called the Lighthouse spa in Thorpe le soken (which is very close to my house!). Will be really nice to relax and spend some time with one of the besties again!

We are also planning a shopping trip to Westfield shopping centre in London which looks incredible as it has a Forever 21 and a Wagamama along with all my other favourite stores! Still need to book Disneyland Paris for my birthday trip, which I'm very excited about as just found out their new parade should be there by then! 

Lisa x

Damn You Disney California!

Disneyland California has gone and squashed my dreams of going and working there anytime soon, well on the College program anyway. I emailed them in hopes they accept international students, but alas they don't :(. I have however applied for the professional internship for event management and marketing; although I have a feeling I will get denied straight away as I'm not a US citizen. 

Still been looking for placements to apply for while getting back into University. Got the Disney meeting in a week and can't believe its nearly been a year since I last applied for the program, it has gone so fast!

Lisa x

Placements

I knew this was coming, I now have to decide what to do past May 2012 & its only October :(. I've made a really tough decision and decided not to go to Walt Disney World for the Summer College Program for a few reasons.

• I don't think I'll be able to top this years experience
• I won't be able to do attractions again (Disney's rule not to assign same job role if you reapply)
• I have a lot to do next summer (weddings, birthdays, shows etc)

I may regret this decision in years to come as its much easier getting a job through the University, but its one I've had to make.

BUT........ I am planning to apply for the year program! I study Event Management and with my course we have to do a year placement, I'm not sure where to do it but Disney is one of my options!

I'm hoping I can do a professional intern ship so I won't be doing 'basic' job roles like before, but we shall see! Obviously I'd love to work within the events department! Other than Disney, I'm going to apply to companies in Las Vegas, California and London! At this point I'm keeping my options wide open :). As my favourite saying is "If you don't ask, you don't get" I am going to email every company I want to work for and dazzle them :)

Lisa x

Back To Manchester I Go

Finally, I can unpack properly! Emma, Sarah, Hannah & I have moved into our new apartment in Manchester and I love it! Spent freshers week getting settled in and drunk! Was great to see the Northern girls again (I completely forgotten about their accents until I got here again!)

Back to classes and its our final year before placements, got lots more hours and this wonderful new class called 'Work Based Learning' which basically enforces us to do more volunteering (which i do anyway) and run our own event; which my groups one will be taking place in January. It will give us a chance to put our skills to use and to see if we've actually learnt anything! 

Here's some photo's from freshers week