Epcot

I went to Epcot a few days ago. I had to go by myself cuz all my friends were working or already had other things going on. But I haven't had so much fun by myself for a long time.
Epcot is a good park to go to alone, cuz there aren't a ton of rides, so you don't feel like you need someone to ride rides with. Mostly you're exploring the world showcase, and it's nice to be able to go wherever you want and take as long as you want to look around. :3

I spent almost the entire day at the world showcase. I love it over there. I could live there. :3

My first stop was the Canada pavilion. I didn't spend much time there, but it was nice. I took a couple of pictures of some birds over there (cuz you know, when I go to theme parks I take pictures of birds and nature, not the park :P)

After that came the United Kingdom pavilion. It was wonderful.

I looked in all the shops. They had tea sets in one, jewelry in another, and one store had a section with a whole bunch of Beatles things! (yaaaaayyyyy Beatles!!! :P)
I bought a ring while I was over there.
At this store:

It was a Claddagh ring. Which looks like this:

The heart symbolizes love, the hands symbolize friendship, and the crown symbolizes loyalty. And depending on how you wear it, it can tell people whether you are taken or not.
Wearing the ring so the heart faces towards you means that you're taken. Wearing the ring so that the heart faces away from you means that your heart is free(that's how I wear it).

I spent a little time in the France pavilion too. Though I didn't explore as much there. I'll have to go back and see it again. :3

Then I went to the Morocco pavilion. They had amazing jewelry and decorative plates and music and all sorts of other things. While I was looking in one of the shops, I turned around to find a little girl standing there with a little yellow flower in her hand. She held it up to show me, and I told her it was very pretty. Then she gave it to me and ran off to join her family.

Then I spent about an hour or so in the Japan pavilion. I must have looked at every item in every store. I saw a Japanese drumming show and watched a girl make a piece of candy shaped like a flamingo. I also bought chopsticks (I've always wanted my own pair), three different types of Japanese candy(one of which was recommended to me by one of the Japanese cast members. She said it was one of her favorites so I wanted to try it. And it was really good), and a lucky owl(they were all different colors, and each color was supposed to bring you luck in a different thing. I got the pink owl, which is supposed to bring you luck in romance and friendship). :3
I also got to talk to the cashier from Japan. She was very nice. :3 Once I told her that I had taken a couple years of Japanese she started speaking Japanese to me. She held out my change and asked if I could count it. It was two dollars, so it was pretty easy. Then she asked me my name, and I told her in Japanese. I told her what my Japanese name was in my Japanese class too. Then she told me she had something for me. She took out a tiny folded paper crane, wrote my name in Japanese hiragana, and gave it to me.
I loved the Japan pavilion. I have a feeling I'm going to be spending a lot of time there on my internship. :3

Then I went to the American Adventure. And you know, it was America. But we live in America. So I didn't spend a whole bunch of time in there cuz I know what America's like. :P

The next stop was the Italy pavilion. They had a ton of restaurants, and it smelled really good in there. I really want to eat there before my internship is over.

Then came the Germany pavilion, which was fun. Plenty of alcohol, but I'm underage so of course I didn't have any(I wouldn't want it even if I was twenty-one anyway). And I saw Snow White. :3

After that I went to the China pavilion. It was gorgeous there. They were selling straw hats at one of the stores too, and everyone was looking at them. I did too, and I kinda wanted one, but I didn't get one. I also saw Mulan while I was there. She waved at me. :3

The Norway pavilion was after that. It was nice there. They have a ride called Maelstrom that I rode on. It was fun, though we ran into several trolls. :P
And they had a store that sold clothing worn in Norway. The store was full of coats and jackets. Things my family in the midwest would probably love to have right now, considering how cold it is over there. But since I'm living in Florida right now and already have too many sweaters, I didn't get any coats or jackets there.

Finally came the Mexico pavilion. By that time it was night, and they have a indoor restaurant that has a painted ceiling and painted walls that make it look like like you're outside. It was really cool.
And they had a ride called Gran Fiesta Tour Starring the Three Caballeros. Hardly anyone was riding it when I got there. I had an entire boat to myself! Part of the ride goes right past the people eating at the indoor restaurant. It was awesome. :3

Then I went to Future World and rode Test Track. I love that ride. :3
It was a bit tamer than I remember it being when I rode it as a kid though.

I also went to The Seas with Nemo and Friends. It was a fun ride, but I had even more fun looking through the aquarium in the building the ride was in. They had dolphins! One of the dolphins saw me put my hand on the glass of it's tank and it swam over to me.
I love dolphins. :3

I also got to see Turtle Talk with Crush. I wasn't going to stay for the show after I walked down the hall it was in and looked in the room, but as I was walking away the cast member at the door called out, "You're not going to stay for the show?"
I started to say something, but he kept going.
"You should check it out. It's fun. You can always leave if you don't want to watch the show. But you should go see it."
So I did.
My favorite part was when Crush picked out people from the audience, cuz instead of saying, for example, "the person in the red shirt," he would say "the person in the red shell." :3

Then at the end of the day I got to see Epcot's fireworks show, IllumiNations. It was AMAZING.

All in all, the day was pretty awesome. Tomorrow I have the day off, so I'm going to go to Animal Kingdom (which is where I work, but I almost always stay in the Caravan Stage/Maharajah Jungle Trek area) and check that park out more.
I feel bad when guests ask me where things are (mostly they ask about Expedition Everest) and I don't know any more than they do. Plus, I've never been on Everest. And I want to try it out.
I also want to ride Dinosaur really REALLY badly. I LOVE that ride. :3
And I want to see the It's Tough to be a Bug show. I like that show too.
And I'll probably buy all the different types of food that I always get to see that always make me hungry, like the evil cart right next to the Maharajah Jungle Trek entrance that makes cinnamon glazed almonds and always smells amazing.
Perhaps I'll get ice cream too. And I found out yesterday that they sell turkey legs. The only time I've ever had those is at Thanksgiving, so maybe I'll try that too. :P
And I want to ride Kali River Rapids. That's where my trainer usually works.
And Festival of the Lion King is a must see too, as is Finding Nemo: the Musical.
And yeah..... I'll stop going on about that though. This post is long enough. :P

Have a magical day!

"To all who come to this happy place...welcome." -Walt Disney

In case I haven't already mentioned it (I don't remember if I did, and I'm feeling lazy and don't want to go look at my last post), CP is a Disney Cast Member who is on the college program.
I'm now half way through my training. I'm fully trained for the Flights Of Wonder show in Disney's Animal Kingdom Asia, Caravan Stage(I help seat people and make sure people sit down through the show so that they don't get hit in the head by a flying bird... things like that).

Update about my costume.... I officially know what it looks like!
It's not very exciting, to be honest. It's basically a patterned skirt and a pink blouse. And a plain looking straw hat with a string that I wear on my back in hopes that it'll make it look like more of a costume than a normal outfit. I don't usually wear the hat like I'm supposed to though, cuz I look like a gardener or something.

I have tomorrow and the next day off, then I begin training on the Maharajah Jungle Trek. I have to know a lot of animal facts for that attraction. I'm memorizing facts about komodo dragons, tigers, malayan flying foxes, rodrigues fruit bats, bantengs, eld's deer, blackbucks, blood pythons, and some of the fifty types of birds on the trek. I've found out a lot of things that I didn't know before. Like why bats hang upside down (they have no ankles and can't turn their feet to stand on them), and that in 1979 Cyclone Cecile nearly took out the rodrigues fruit bat population, leaving only seventy of them after the storm.
I don't know what I'm going to do on my days off. I don't have anyone to go to the parks with, and I don't really want to go alone. That's no fun.
I know I'll sleep in. :3 I've been waking up at five the last couple days.

I went to the Magic Kingdom last week. I was invited by a friend I had just recently met. I was a little nervous about only knowing one person, and barely knowing him. But everyone in the group was really fun and we had a blast. I hung out with most of them (the group was kinda big). One girl had the same name as me! She was tons of fun. We sang Disney songs in the park, and even danced a bit. :3
We teamed up with a guy from the group and sang/danced along with a little band singing their version of happy birthday to a guest. Apparently, one of the guest's relatives was recording the band, but began filming us instead when we started dancing.
We were all happy to be a part of that family's memories. That's what cast members are supposed to do- help guests have fun, magical moments that they'll never forget.

I also got to see Cinderella's Castle close up for the first time. It's beautiful. I still haven't seen the Wishes Nighttime Spectacular though. I hope I get to watch that.

I think my favorite rides/attractions in the Magic Kingdom are (in no particular order) Peter Pan's Flight, "it's a small world," The Haunted Mansion, Pirate's of the Caribbean and Stitch's Great Escape. I haven't been on all the attractions in the Magic Kingdom yet though... maybe I'll find some more I really like. And of course, I have to check out the other parks.

That's all for now. I'll write more if anything exciting happens.
Have a magical day!