Krista's Wishes Come True : March 2015

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Wednesday March 11, 2015

JAMBO Everyone!!

Today I so happened to be off because I had traded shifts with one of my coworkers named Peyton so I worked her Sunday and she was supposed to work today for me! I made plans to go to Animal Kingdom today with Kristen and Emily and I was soo excited to wear my cute new elephant print shorts that I had bought at Forever 21 yesterday! I got all dressed up and ready, and then Katie came in my room crying because she was really nervous about her sunburn that she had gotten from the other day at Flower and Garden and from working outside in the sun. She asked if I could take her to an urgent care place before she had to go to work. I drove her to CENTRA CARE which wasn't far at all from the Downtown Disney entrance. We were there for about two hours and the doctor gave Katie a medical restriction in order for her coordinators to give her a modified schedule for the next two weeks. By the time we finished, it was time for her to go to work, so I drove her over to the Animal Kingdom Lodge so she could go to work and then I left to go meet Kristen at Animal Kingdom.

When I got there, Emily was at class. She's taking Exploring Environmentality and Sustainability, so she had to meet her class at Rafiki's Planet Watch and they took a backstage tour of Kilimanjaro Safaris and it sounded really neat. Anyways, I met Kristen in the front of the park and we took some cute pictures and then went to PIZZAFARI since I was really hungry! We sat and talked for a while in there and then after that we walked around and went in some shops for a good while. I got some Jungle Juice in an adorable souvenir cup and it was soo yummy!!

After Emily's class was over, we met up with her and we both rode Expedition Everest again and I ran into Rachel Branham who makes vlogs just like me, so I said hello to her and we had a good time! After that, we left the park and headed back to our apartment for a little bit and then met up with Marissa at Epcot because Kristen and Emily had reservations at San Angel Inn at the Mexico pavilion. I wasn't very hungry because I was still pretty stuffed from the pizza I ate earlier, but I did get an appetizer, which was the perfect amount of food! We stayed until the park closed and then came back for the night. It was a really nice day off!!

Oh and GUESS WHAT???!!!! I got ACCEPTED for nursing school a couple of days ago and I'm beyond excited to start a new adventure in the fall!! I'll start in August for m Fall semester of college and I'm very very excited to see and learn lots of new things!! I have to accept my offer by Wednesday March 25th so I'll have to accept it soon! There's a lot of things I need to do for it, and they send a big large envelope full of information, so I'm going to have a lot of things to take care of before June 4th when the rest of my paperwork needs to be turned in. I just feel so blessed that everything worked out perfecting in God's plan and there bigger and better things coming my way very soon!

~ Krista Lauren Girod

Saturday, March 14, 2015

Tuesday March 10, 2015

Shopping for Dapper Day Dresses & First Floorstock Shift

Me and Emily made plans to go to the outlet mall today to look for really CUTE dresses to wear for Dapper Day on Saturday! I'm so excited about attending it because ever since I've found out about it, I've wanted to go and it looks like it's going to be so much fun! For those of you who may not know what Dapper Day is, it's a really fun tradition at Disney where guests can come to the parks dressed up looking your best in classic, dapper attire. You all should definitely Google it and check it out!

We decided to go to the outlets on International Drive which were about 25-30 minutes away. We walked straight to Forever 21 because I had a feeling I would be able to find a dress there for a decent price. I tried on quite a bit of dresses, and don't worry, I vlogged a little bit just for you guys, and Emily tried on a handful of dresses too! I fell in love with the second dress I tried on!! It's off white with lace and it looks very vintage! Emily found a cute blue and white classy-looking dress and we both want to wear pearls and pretty purses and shoes! I also ended up finding two cute pairs of shorts - one that had elephants on it and looked super cute for a park day in Animal Kingdom and another pair that looked similar to those but were black! I can't wait to actually go SUMMER SHOPPING!!

After we finished shopping, I had to rush back to my apartment and quickly change for work at 4! The bus came at 3 but it looked like it was running a little late so I got really nervous and decided to drive myself to work for the first time! I got really nervous because it took me a while to find a parking spot, but I eventually did! YAY! I had my very first FLOORSTOCK shift today and I was excited to see what it would be like! I ended up stocking Mickey's Star Traders and the Speedway cart, but since there were a couple of people who already had been out to Speedway, all I really needed to focus on was MST. It was very crowded and there was a lot to restock. I focused on making the pin trading display looking a lot more full and more organized, I stocked a lot of the plush, mugs, and the drink cooler. Stocking is a lot more laidback than doing registers, but I'm not sure what I like more. I kind of like them both. I love interacting with the guests when I'm on register, but I also love taking my time and reorganizing the stores when I'm stocking. I love them both!! Today was a pretty good day and I'm really excited for Saturday to come now!!

~ Krista Lauren Girod

Monday, March 9, 2015

Monday March 9, 2015

Flower and Garden Festival with Katie and Janet

So first of all, I just wanted to apologize for not blogging in a little while. I have been working a lot, but just to catch all of you up, I absolutely love Tomorrowland!! I'm finally starting to feel comfortable working there and I've already met so many amazing people. There's about 40 or more college programmer's working in my location including quite a few international students! I'm meeting a lot of friends and I really really really love everything about this program!!

I had a really fun day at work yesterday! I was actually supposed to have the day off, but I switched shifts with my friend Peyton so she's working my Wednesday shift and I worked her Sunday shift! I had a lot of great guest interactions! I was put on Photo Viewer in the Space Mountain gift shop and in the Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin shop. I printed a lot of photos for guests and pin traded a bunch also, which I love!! At the end of the night, we had some guests come off the Buzz Lightyear ride. It was a mom and her son and some other members of their party. The son was disabled and when he went to get on the ride, he slammed his foot in the door that comes down on the ride with the space ranger guns to shoot at the targets. His mom was worried that his foot might be broker or sprained since it was very swollen and he was crying a lot. Buzz Lightyear was his favorite ride and it made the mother very upset to see him like that. I asked my coworker Taylor to ask them if they wanted medical attention and they did. I was very nervous, but tried to look and stay calm. I called our coordinator on duty just to make sure that it was okay to call an ALPHA, which is our code for an ambulance, so I had to call an Alpha code and dial 911. The doctors came very soon after and our coordinators came in to help assist us. When one of the coordinators asked the mother what his favorite ride and movie were and he said this ride, I went ahead and grabbed a Buzz Lightyear plush and our coordinators wrote a NO STRINGS ATTATCHED for the boy. A no strings attached card is something that coordinators can fill out for any type of merchandise less than $25 for guest service recovery. My coordinator Caitlyn gave my a FOUR KEYS CARD for handling the situation effortlessly and I was very appreciative of it. I just wanted to make sure that the guest was taken care of and that I was doing the right thing!

I also sold my first Attractions Plus card to a family who wanted to buy four digital downloads from Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin. Each digital download is $14.95 plus tax so times four would've been a lot of money, so I suggested to him that he could buy an Attractions Plus card for $49.95 plus tax and that way he could have all the photos that he takes on any of the rides that take your photos in all four parks and it would save him a lot of money. He was very happy that I had mentioned that to him and I felt very accomplished, and I successfully handled it all by myself! YAY!

So, today I had my first day off in six days, so I was very excited to do something FUN!! I guess before I go on any further, I should tell you all a little bit about what happened this past week. I've had a very stressful week not just with work, but with our roommate situation and I'm very upset about how everything happened. Long story short, two of our original roommates - Catherine and Sherri moved out of our apartment on Wednesday March 4th and are living in Vista Way now with some new random roommates. We also got a new roommate named Heather who works at the World of Disney and she seems really nice! I won't go into too much detail about what happened, but basically Catherine and Sherri had a housing meeting on Wednesday because of some things that were brought to the housing teams attention and they thought it was best if they moved apartments, so now Emily is my roommate and she moved into Sherri's place and we have a total of seven roommates right now. I cried a lot about what happened and there's just been a little bit of drama going on with that that's made me a little stressed out, but I wanted to let you all know what happened in case you don't seem too much of them anymore in my vlogs and what not.

Anyways, so this morning I went to my guest service class from 11-1 PM and today's class topic was Food and Beverage. We had two Food and Beverage managers who came to speak to our class about there line of business with the Walt Disney Company and we got to find out what makes Disney's dining services so unique and entertaining for our guests. We got to play an Iron Chef challenge that allowed us to create our own food product. We had to name it and decide how much to sell it for. It was very fun! We ended up creating a peanut butter and jelly banana crunch muffin that we sold for $6.25. We didn't have many ingredients to choose from so we kind of had to use what we had to create something worth eating.

After that, me and Katie met Janet at Epcot!! I was so so excited to finally be going to Epcot because I've been wanting to experience the FLOWER AND GARDEN FESTIVAL for a long time now. This year, Disney added a food experience to this event much like the Food and Wine Festival that happens in the fall since it was so popular. We spent most of the day walking around World Showcase and looking at all the BEAUTIFUL flowers and topiaries. They give you a passport that you can get stamped at each country when you try some of the food options and it was so much fun to walk around and try to get all the places stamped!! Don't worry, I vlogged every moment!! We mostly walked around and took lots of pictures and got to ride the boat ride in Mexico and the Finding Nemo ride!! We had such a fun time and we're definitely going to have to go back to finish getting the rest of the stamps in our passports!!

AND THE PHOTOSHOOT BEGINS!!!