Resident Summer

So in April I was lucky enough to volunteer in a Cross-Utilization capacity to be a Disney Media Representative for the National Media Awaken Summer Event (you can read a little here:  Awaken Summer).

Well, the media outlook that I worked with (105.1 WOMX Orlando's Mix) apparently didn't get completely sick of me during our Disney's Animal Kingdom at Night Preview and Disney's Animal Kingdom Broadcast the follow day. I apparently was tolerable enough for them to ask for me to work with them again for out Florida only media event for Resident Summer! I was so honored to be asked to hang out with them again (oh wait, I guess it was considered work).

This time both their morning and afternoon shows came out and it was so much fun to meet them all. They were all great people and I was happy to be able to help introduce them all to the new Town Center at Disney Springs (let's just say that I am addicted to D-Luxe Burger now...)  and all of the great new offerings this summer, including the new Soarin' Around the World video and Frozen attractions at EPCOT, Star Wars fireworks at Hollywood Studios, Jungle Book show with the new Animal Kingdom at Night, along with the new stage show at the Magic Kingdom. Some of these thing are already open, but there are a ton of things opening today, June 17th!

If I didn't have enough fun working the event,
they even gave me this yummy treat!

If you search #ResidentSummer on your favorite social media device you can probably find a lot of the things that the media posted from the event! 

I hope that I can work some of these events again in the future. I love my job in Revenue Management, but the opportunities like this to get out in the parks and interact with our guests, media ones or otherwise, really helps keep the magic alive!

Media partners CJ and Carly with Mix 105.1, Marketing Manager
Jane, and myself after another successful broadcast!

Moving Back to Florida

ahhhh! I have big news! I am moving back to Disney World! I got a full time job offer this week so I am currently working on doing the million and one things that I have to do before I move back down. My dash went to post-interview stage Tuesday night and then Wednesday morning I got the call! I am so excited that things paid off and the timing worked out that I got to have my foot surgery too. So see ya real soon gang!

Summer Plans

With only two more weeks of classes and a week of finals before the end of the semester, I am really looking forward to my summer plans.

First off I will be heading to Vienna, Austria for a little over 3 weeks with the Hope College Vienna Summer School. I will be taking a Modern Austrian History course where I can learn the history of the country while I am there. While there, we will all be living with host families all over the city. I am super excited for this opportunity, but it feels like it is very far away instead of just over 3 weeks from now.

The fun doesn't stop after I get back to the States. My mom just informed me the other day that she bought tickets for a Tigers game the week I get back on my sisters birthday! The one downside of going to Vienna is missing out on all the cheap Tigers tickets in the month of May. I guess there is one other downside: last year I went with my dad to free Friday of the Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix for his birthday and this year I won't be able to go. :( I will be flying back into Detroit that day, so I will have to miss out on the fun we had that day (including meeting some of the drivers, watching practice, and, how could I forget, standing out in the freezing rain all day. lol).

How could I forget the awesome news I got this week!?!? On Wednesday I found out that I will have the opportunity to work as a Teacher for the Detroit Zoo's Summer Safari Camp! I am REALLY excited about this. It works out so that I can stay at home this summer, relates to my major, and fits with the schedule of my other activities.

This post is getting SUPER long, so I will wrap it up with my last plans. At the end of June I will be heading to LA for an all expense paid trip to present my research at an international research conference and in July I will be going to the Train, Script, and Gavin DeGraw concert. There are a few other things that I might have up my sleeve, but I'll elaborate if/when they get finalized. I am very excited for all that is in store so I would love it if I could just get through these last few weeks. :)