Amber Earns Her Ears: My Secret Walt Disney World Cast Member Diary by Sewell Amber

Author:Sewell, Amber [Sewell, Amber]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: disney, disney world, disney college program, magic kingdom, epcot, orlando
Publisher: Theme Park Press
Published: 2013-06-17T00:00:00+00:00

PART TWO

My Second Semester at Walt Disney World

MY POST DISNEY DEPRESSION didn’t last long. On the drive back from Disney World at the end of the CareerStart Program, I was thinking about two things: how much I had enjoyed the past several months, and how much I wanted to do them all over again.

It wouldn’t be as easy as calling Disney, telling them I wanted to come back, and then driving down. Even though I was now an experienced Cast Member with positive reviews from my supervisors, I would have to apply to the Disney College Program just like everyone else.

Fortunately, the application process was the same — in fact, almost everything about the CareerStart and College Programs is the same — and I felt much more confident now that I knew what to expect.

Of course, they might still reject me. Disney does reject people who have participated in a program and then apply for a new semester. That didn’t happen to me. But it was always a possibility.

Returning to Disney World as a “veteran” should have meant an uptick in my responsibilities and perhaps more interesting work assignments. Is that how Disney saw it?

Well, no.

And that was part of the reason why the College Program didn’t quite work out the way I had expected. What I didn’t completely realize then — but do realize now — was that I was returning to Disney World with my “guest blinders” off. Inevitably, the experience would be different — in some ways better, in other ways worse.

As I would soon find out…

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