The First Few Days

Arriving to Disney was not your typical first day employee orientation. The day started off at the Vista Way Welcome center where check-in to housing began along with completion of some paperwork.  Next up the venture to the Walt Disney World Casting Center began.  The Casting Center (located next to Downtown Disney) is the central hub for all Walt Disney World employment, programs, and recruitment. 

Here is the entrance to the Casting Center:

The entrance doors!  Don't these friends look familiar? 

 After opening these doors you arrive to the "Disney Oval Office" which is filled will gold sculptures of all the famous Disney characters which boarder the wall above you.

(Image from H.J. High Construction)

Leaving the "Disney Oval Office" you venture down this long quiet hallway several hundred feet which leads to the check-in / reception area.

Inside the Casting Center everyone completed paperwork, hire documentation, and learned new employee information.  

After the business at the Casting Center was completed everyone proceeded to our new housing units.  We then experienced our housing welcome session / meeting.  This meeting was anything but a typical boring housing meeting though.  It included flashing lights, music.... let's just say its was a "Disney" meeting! After the meeting we proceeded back to our new units. I live near the Downtown Disney / Resorts area about 10 min from the nearby theme parks EPCOT and Disney's Hollywood Studios.  The apartment / community is really nice and my new roommates (all Professorial Interns with Horticulture) are awesome.  

We have come from all corners of America and have backgrounds in Horticulture, Landscape Architecture, and other related fields.  Over the next couple days we will get settled in, explore the area, and meet other PIs and CPs here for the summer from around America and abroad.  On Saturday all Horticulture Interns will complete "Disney Traditions" which is a class that is the official orientation for all new Disney employees.  In the mean time its time to relax before work begins!