One Adventure Ends...Another Begins

Well I was absolutely, positively horrible at updating my blog, my last entry was march! March! Was I really too busy to update a simple blog? The answer is yes...
I thought about just leaving my blog as is, but I decided that this adventure needed a closure, even if no one reads it but me.

When looking back at my adventure working for Disney, I look back with mostly good thoughts, and fond memories. Though I do have my ill wills towards my experiance, which I will spell out for you first and then end with why I thought this was a great time in my life.

The one thing I will absolutely NOT miss is working. I know you're thinking, "Oh you silly boy, thats what you were there to do!", and yes that is true. I learned to just get through work and lived for the moments I wasn't working, or I just called in sick, which I did a grand total of 14 times. Thats not to say I didn't enjoy parts of work, I enjoyed when my guests would engage and have fun and respond to what I was saying. I hated it on days when it was hotter than a fire in hell (the insides of the trucks would get up to 110 degrees!), when the guests acted like zombies even when I gave EACH and EVERY safari my all, or when the managers treated us like dirt on their boots. Which was pretty much every day. But there were always those moments when I little kid would come up after and say something like, "That was the most fun I ever had!" or "I would SO take a 2 week safari with you, even 3 weeks, you're awesome!" Those were the good days.

Also, Disney as a company treats it's college program kids like slaves. I hear they treat their part timers and full timers like kings, but us, no, we're expendable.

But work aside, my experiance was amazing. I loved living in Florida, skipping Michigan's horrible 4 month freeze, I loved how there was always something to do, or people to hang with, I loved being independent, I loved that I met the most amazing girl in the world down there and now that amazing girl is my even more amazing girlfriend. Being on my own really showed me I could actually do it, I can not only live on my own, but I can thrive.

It was weird coming home though, really weird. I can't even completely explain it. I feel like I've officially become an adult now, and as much as I love being home, its my time to move on and start the rest of my life. Also, there is a million and a half more things to do in Florida than Saginaw.

Overall, working for Disney was an experiance I will never forget. I learned so much about myself, and a lot about other people. But this hasn't sustained my thirst for adventure and traveling, if anything it has made me even more thirsty for new experiances. That being said, bring on my new adventure! In the words of the ever wise Bilbo Baggins;

The road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began
Now far ahead the road has gone
And I will follow if I can.