It's true. Beer? People drink like crazzzzzy in Epcot. It's definitely more of an adult park so you can get it on every corner. And today, while doing a "trash run", I threw a full bag of trash into the trash compressor not knowing there was a gaping hole in the bottom. Therefore, someone's can of beer all over me. Sweat? Well this one is for a lot of reasons but mainly because I got to my locker tonight and realized I still had my work radio on my belt. So I had to RUN back to the park and RUN back to the locker room so I didn't miss my bus. And I did it :) Vomit? I had my first "code V" today. That's Disney language for "someone just puked all over the floor on their way to the nearest bathroom". We learned a lot about them and I was hoping I would never have to deal with one but I did on my second day and it was great! Haha it was inside a restaurant in Germany and I got to use this sawdust-like stuff (yes dad, you called it) and Disney has that solidifies any liquid instantly. It's pretty sweet, actually!
So here's a little recap on my last four days. Friday, the roommates worked all day so I cleaned the apartment and ran errands. Saturday, I went to Animal Kingdom and Epcot with one of my friends. SO fun! Sunday, I went to church which was amazing. Then I worked my first two real shifts yesterday and today. It has been wonderful so far! I love my managers, co-workers, the guests are mostly splendid, and the work is easy. As a custodian, I either get assigned streets or restrooms. Streets are when I spend two hours taking trash out and cleaning trash cans, and the rest of my shift is spent walking up and down the streets sweeping trash into my pan and talking to people. Restrooms are when I clean restrooms. That's it! It's almost too easy but The Food and Wine Festival starts next week. That's when we get code V's left and right and have to help people to benches. I'm looking forward to that!
Everyone I have worked with is soooo nice. They know I'm new so they go out of their way to show me where everything is and to check up on me in the kindest way possible. I have been so lucky in meeting people from so many different places and with so many different stories. Today on one of my breaks, I sat down across the table from an older man. I noticed his name tag said he was from Colombia (where Garrett is serving) and I started to ask him about it. He spoke broken English and I speak fragmented Spanish so that didn't work out very well. However, the third person at the table was a man from Haiti who spoke English and Spanish and acted as our translator for the whole conversation. What did he say about Colombia? He LOVES it. I have met a few other people from there also and they all can't say enough good things about it. He asked where Garrett is going and I told him Cali. The first thing he talked about was Salsa Dancing. Literally, all four people I have talked to about Cali, Colombia while I have been here have talked about how it's famous for Salsa dancing. So Garrett better come home ready to impress...
I had a really cool experience with two fellow cast members yesterday and today. We were actually talking about long-distance relationships and I brought Garrett up and the "Mormon" word kind of stalled both of them... I waited for someone to say something but soon I just asked what they thought about Mormons. They both admitted they had heard really strange things and were hesitant but weren't sure because I seemed like a cool person. So we kept talking about it and soon they were asking me really good questions. Some of them were hard too but I had the coolest experience! For every single question they asked, I thought for a second and soon a young womens meeting, a fireside, an efy class, a byu-i devotional, even scriptures came right to my head so clearly. I was able to answer all of their questions and they both seemed very interested and I was very relieved. We had talked about it for over an hour and it was such a cool feeling! And today I was working in the same area as the guy who seemed interested and he asked me more! Ahh I'm loving this! Maybe this is why I'm here.
I do have some quotes of the day...
There was a woman waiting with her three young kids for her husband to re-join them out of a pub so they could continue walking. He walks out with ONE beer in his hand and immediately regretted it. She glared at him for several seconds before yelling, "You seriously didn't get me a beer?!" And walking away with the kids while he scrambled for an excuse.
Right after that there was an older couple, probably 80, each on a scooter thing. The husband stopped along the promenade for her to catch up and as she did, she yelled at him, "Hey sexy, you headed my way?"
The last one was a couple with their adult daughter who stopped to ask me where the nearest smoking section was. I showed them and as the father and daughter started walking away, the mom came back to me and said, "We don't smoke, but the person we're looking for does." Don't worry, judgment not made.
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