fire!! fire!!

Last night I woke up of a extremly loud tone.
it was biiping, and I couldn't understand what it was. First I thought it was the alarm on mye telephone so I looked at my phone and it was only 3.am, not the time my alarm was set. after a cople of moments trying to understand what it was, I got that it was the fire alarm. and it was going of in the whole building.
I went out to the street, and the security guards were outside our building. There was appearantly no fire, but no one turned of the alarm. after a while the fire fighters came, but they couldn't do much, 'cause there was no fire and didn't have the key for the fire alarm. After half an hour security got the alarm shut of, and we could go to sleep again....

Hva USA har og ikke har

USA har ikke:

brunost lett tilgjengelig

toaletter som tåler å bli brukt

Skjønt greia med mobiler uten abonnement eller abonnement uten mobil

smash!

USA har:

sykt mye søt mat

et åpent folk

To my dearest friend

I miss you...

I could write so much more...
How every thing is different when I can't call you all the time,
or come to you, if just to watch Grey's... I have to watch it alone...
I could wite so much more...
But it's all down to these words...

I miss you....

Just after I wrote last time,


me, Siri and Iselin went to Disney Hollywood studios, one of the four Disney teamparks here in Disney World. The Studios include many of the most popular rides here, like the Tower of terror and Rock n' rollercoster. I am a coward, I'm not gonna say anything else, but I had to do these rides and I loved them! I was scared as few, but I loved it. It was so fun.

Tower of terror is an elevator ride from h..... It's what you wish never will happen in real life. the elevator suddenly droppes...and it droppes fast!

and rock'n rollercoaster is ...well a rollecoaster, as the name says, but a darn fast one! wohoooo!!!



On our way in to the Narnia attraction we met Prince Caspian. oh yes, he was nice=) Not my type..but...Prince Caspian=) tihii..





Today we (Fie, Kirsti and me) went to Epcot to play! at Epcot we have all the countrys, and some rides - the rides that we tested out was Mission space and test track. Before I've done spaceship earth and soarin. Mission space is a astronaut trainingprogram for astronauts going to mars. you can choose between intence and less intence. intense includes an great amount of g-forces put into your ody (tecnically we're spinning really fast during the ride). It was so coool!!

In test track you're a crash test dummy in a car in a crashsenter. that's a great ride as well.

Soarin is an amizing ride and my favourit amongs the slow ones. Soarin takes you on a hanggliding tour over california. it's really beautiful.



The international food and Wine festival is on in Epcot these days, and that means more people in the park. a lot more this week than the last one. It is actually the biggest food and wine festival in the world, and that naturally effects our scetchual. this saturday, witch is my first day out of training (jei) I'll be working in the amerikan adventures garden theatre, where all the food and wine concerts are. And I have one day next week there as well. interesting doing something thats different from what I'll be doing all year=)

So guys. I'm back=)
haha!
We had Discovery day last saturday. That basically ment a class on property (Epcot) where we learned about the park (epcot) and took a tour around it.

Sunday was my day of, so I washed the bathroom... it gave me mental trauma, and I don't want to talk about it.

Yesterday was my first day in training! Hurray!
I was assigned as a seater, and that basically mean that I led people to their table .
The system work lik this:
When seating starts (about every other our) people sign in at the podium. when they are signed in the assigner assign them a table in the resturant. They have to wait until they are called, and then they get to stand in line to meet the princess and take a picture with her. When they've met the princess they come to us - the seaters, and we take their ticket and lead them to the table they've been assigned. Between the seatings we clean tables.
The day was bussy all day, but went on retty smootly.

Today we went to the sosial security offive to get a sosial security number. thats it for now guys!

Pixiedust!!

Yesterday I got my first paycheck! Woho! It was in the amzing value of 62 dollar!!
I'm not really allowed to talk about the about of the money, so that's all I'm saying.
It was our first day on location with training og the different computer systems and
the cashieers. It was also our first day in costume. We were on location before opening, so had to get up early=)

Here I am in costume and with my very first paycheck:

Today we had Food and beverage basics with e-learning and tomorrow it's Discoveryday at Epcot!

Peace, love and Pixiedust!!

Min Kjaere mann

This message will be in Norwegian, adressed to all my friends and family in Norway.

Kjaere Venner og familie.

Det er paa tide at jeg innrommer noe som jeg har holdt skjult lenge for dere.

Som dere vet er jeg singel og har vaert det i godt over et aar naa. vel...

naa har det seg sann at det stemmer ikke helt.

jeg har funnet meg en, og vi har vaert sammen en god stund naa.

Vi valgte aa holde forholdet vaart skjult fordi det var saa store avstander mellom oss og vi var usikker paa hvordan det ville gaa,men naa som jeg har flyttet ned hit saa loeste alt seg. Vi har faktisk til og med kjopt oss et hus her nede, og har begynt aa flytte inn. ser ut til at det blir serdeles bra.

Vi har bare et problem og det er at det henger litt mye folk rundt huset vaart, men det skal vi nok faa gjort noe med etterhvert.

Naa naar har det faktisk begynt aa bli ganske saa saerioest,saa da tenkte jeg at jeg skulle annonsere det for dere. Moet min kjaere, som jeg bare kaller G.! :

Og her er vaart nye hjem. vi tror vi kommer til aa bli lykkelige her:

Love Ya'll ;)

The last couple of days

So, it's been a couple of days, and I'm starting to get in in the Disney lifesyle.

My computer suddenly died (not that I didn't expect that to happen, I just didn't want it to happen so soon...)The last cople of days has been good and eventfull.Thursday startet at 12.30 with more meetings, and more forms to fill out.everything is very well oraganised, so it's really no problem. It's very clear that theyre used to this.Thursday night it was time for our "throw-in"party, the national groups welcoming party for us rookies. We was introduced for the group ( the details must be left out, it's a secret. But I can say that no Floridan or Disney laws were broken) and went out on town.

Friday were our first day of, an me and some of the girls had a all girls day. first we went to the outlet mall and shopped (I didn't get anything..) than we went further up the street to a nail salong. some of us got manicures and one of the girls (Siri) got a pedicure. After the nailsalong we went to Publix (grocerystore) and bought icecream (guys, you should see the Icecreamshelf here!): and we went home to Fie and made dinner (pasta) and after dinner we sat down to watch a movie (Cinderella story) and eat icecream.At saturday we had our first day of "Work" - our traditionsclass at Disney university.the class started at 8, so the buss from commons left at 7, so it was an eary morning, and a loooooong day. we had all day in the classroom (exept from lunch - we ate in the tunnel/the backstage castmember lunchroom at magic kingdom). It was a hard day, not because the material we had to learn was hard, but because it was so long. They'd tried to make it fun with a lot of tasks and a posibility to win prices, but still.... I got a price though- a little tinkerbell for reading a section in the workbook (yes, there was a workbook). It wasn't really well done. My oral english isn't bad, but my reading sucks. It' alost worse than my writing... But I got a price anyway=)

After Traditions we got our schedual for the next three weeks, and they are full! This week is dedicated to general learning about Epcot, Disney and Norway Pavilion, including classes with E-learning and a class on Disney University. And Discoveryday at epcot! That'll be fun! My days off this week is monday and Wednesday. Next week I'll start my Training at Norway Pavilion! Hurray! And my traing will last the next two weeks, including some days in the bakery, one day in the biercarten, one day as greeter, one day as setter and one day in the kitchen. after traditions we went out to Downtown Disney, and I/we went wild in the Princess store and played with all the dresses. it was fun!

Today us in food startet really early. We had to meet at Epcot cast service at 7. am!! That ment that we had to take the bus from the commons at 6. I was up 5.15. and it's really not our last early morning. already at thursday we start at 7 again. that time at the university.

Today we had e-learning. That'll say, learning about diferent things considering our evrydaylife in the park - chemicals, hazards, serving of alcoholic beverages and stuff like that. after training we went and got our costumes! hurray! The Norwegian costume, for those who doesn't know is a Bunad, the Norwegian National costume. Though it's not a real one it's a nice copy/replicant of one. Everybody looked so nice!

After training and fitting, me and the girls went to magic kingdom!!

Our first trip to Disney World (that was not backstage), and it was fun. I had to leave ealy to catch the last mass at Mary Queen of the universe Shrine here by The commons at six, but I got to see the 3'o clock parade and ride the Splash mountain. it was so fun! When i Finallly got of the bus at the commons it was already six, and I had to run to the church. just made mass =)

I'm here number 2!

so.. . updating=)

We arrived yesterday at around 10.

Then we took a taxi (mears) to Vista Way(a hosing complex) for check-in.

We got a package with some food, a Disney Newspaper called eyes&ears, a postit and an applejuice.

We were checkd in and I got my appartementkey, program for the next days, my adress

and a program guide.

We got in to minivans, and drove over to the Commons. I live in the Commons hous four appartement 411. ground floor. It's a four bedroom appartement, so we should be 8 people living here. right now we are only seven. there's one empty bed.

I slept in my sleepingbag last night, 'cause there's no linnens here.

This morning I woke up at 6.30. Didn't really wanted to wake up then, but couldn't help it.

got up, ate and went to church for mass at 8 o'clock .

At 9 we had our welcomingmeeting. it was a meeting including filling out and sosial security number appliction, verifying our program start and end dates, housingrules and communityguidelines. after the welcomingmeeting, we went to Vista way to get our housing identetycard. While waiting in line it started raining. The sky just opened, and everything that wasnt under a roof got wet within a few seconds. I promise! After taking the picture for the car and reciving the card, we went to shop at wallmart.I had to buy sheets, blanket, pillow, towels, food, phone...everything! and so I did..shopped for about 180 dollars, so not much for everything i needed.

Trying to activate my phone now... easyer said than done...

some of the norwegian girls were talking about going out to eat, but I don't have anyones number, and can't remember their appartementnumbers...

Okay people.

if anyone want my adress,

send me an email, and I will send it to you!

My housephonenumber is (+1)407-560-2280-3411 . if you need to reach me, call me

My mobiletelephonenumber...well... send me an email, and I'll send you that as well.

If you want to call me, though, it's better to call on the housephone...it's cheaper for all.

or download Skype and call me online! that's free!

I'm here!!

I'm here!
I've actually arrived!
I'm sitting in my new appartement, with some of my new room-mates.
It's amazing!
I'm so tired after all the traveling,
but it's so great being here!
I'm here! I'm living in Disney,
I'm gonna work in Disney.
Naturally it's been a emotional day... saying goodbye to Bella and all(had to make some tears)
and getting some lovly letters from my friends
(I promise, noone can ever replace you. noone!)
Now I'm going to bed,
since I have Welcoming meetings from nine in the morning, and now it's 11.30.

I'll write more tomorrow, and post some pictures.
Miss people allready...
Love!

Leaving soon!

I'm sitting here, it's four hours until I'm supposed to wake up and leave this country.

It's weird.

I'm actually going now.

This last week has been a long goodbye. good bye to my family, good bye to my friends, good bye to my loved ones.

this friday I had my goodbyeparty, it was really fun.

People I had not seen for long came.

Many of my friends came, about 27 people=)

And what costumes! It was a Disney party (natrually) so people came as Disney costumes.

Some were The incredibles! and there was a "Spøkelseskladden" (I don't know what he's called in english, but he's the man covered with the black thingi in the Donald comedys) and "lille hjelper" (still don't know the english name...) and much more=)

here's some pictures:

Today I've been all over town meeting people and saying good bye to them.

It started at the office and I got to say good bye to Stig-Arne, Bjørg, Elisabeth og Fr.Frode.

Then I met up with Guro, so Camilla, so Maria Bjørn, so Jonathan and Kristine and Tao.

Got some nice pictures almost everyone. post them as well.

Now I'm just sitting here, looking at Bella packing for Spain. She's also leaving tomorrow.

Mum and dad has called , and I'm reay to go...I probably should sleep, and I'm really tired..

But don't Know if I'll be able to.

Love you all(even if I don't have pictures of all of you), and I'm gonna miss you !

Tickets arrived and my healthinsurance

I've got my tickets by email today(probably yesterday, but didn't check then...)
So no I got my seatnubers and all that kind of stuff.

I finally got my Healthinsurance, after I've been calling them three times the last week(the should have been finished with it 27.august) and today I went down to their office and said I needed it now. I got to meet with the lady who has my case. she had not even done anything with it when I came (and its 11 weeks sence i sence I sent it) but everything was OK and I got my papers. finally!!

flightinformation, 6 days left

The depature date is getting closer and closer.
only six days left, and this day has brought information.
I got two emails and they just called me with my flight information.
I'll be traveling with British airways flight 761 from Oslo to London at 7.50. I have to be at the airport at 5.00 at the latest (hurray!)I'll be in London at 9.20 (local time).
We'll be travelling with united Airline flight 919 from London to Washington 12.00, arriving 15.12 local time, and we'll bw flying with United Airline from Washington to Orlando flight 1565 at 17.26 arriving 19.39. In all that's 18 hours of travelling. I'm so glad I baught special flyingsocks!

I got two emails from the international Recruitment office today. one with luggage packing tips, and a "you're almost there!" mail. here they are:

Dear Kristine,
The countdown is on and you are just a week away from the experience of a lifetime! In preparation for your journey, we wanted to give you what we think are the top five things to keep in mind while packing your baggage to improve your chances that all of your items make it to Orlando safe and sound!
Be prepared should you have a lost bagPack so that you can continue with the loss of one of your bags. Distribute key items between your luggage such as clothes, underwear and other essentials. Remember-- travel documents, valuables and medication should be in your carry-on luggage.
Put your contact information inside AND outside of every bagRemember to put your name and contact address on the outside of every bag. Also, put the same information plus a copy of your itinerary inside every bag. This will make it easier for the airline to reunite you with your separated luggage, if necessary. You should also do this with your carry-on luggage in case you are forced to check that bag at the last minute.
Do not over-pack your bagsItems that are bulging or are not sufficiently constructed to support the weight inside may split during the trip through the luggage belt system. Also, if your bag is over the weight limit you will have to pay a penalty at the check-in counter.
Make sure the airline tag on your checked luggage is for the correct destination Every piece of checked luggage should have a three-letter airport identifier that should match your final destination airport. The three-letter airport code for Orlando International Airport is MCO. Please make sure that you keep the stub for your checked luggage as well. This stub is a critical document that will be needed if your luggage is lost by the airline or if you are trying to prove that you own a piece of luggage.
If arriving through another U.S. city prior to Orlando, remember to re-check your bags after going through Immigrations and CustomsVery important - All baggage must be re-checked upon arrival to the U.S. if arriving to another U.S. city prior to Orlando. Baggage that is not re-checked will not be sent on to Orlando and can result in your baggage being lost or sent to you with a transfer fee.
You should also be aware of any government regulations regarding baggage and refer to your specific airlines travel requirements to learn more about carry-on luggage sizes and airport check-in information. Please be sure to arrive early to the airport to help ensure that all goes well with getting your journey started.
We look forward to seeing you, and have a safe trip!

Sincerely, Walt Disney World International Recruitment



Dear Kristine,
Below are a few hints and reminders to better prepare you for your arrival to the Walt Disney World® Resort. Be sure to print this email and review your arrival packet materials one last time to ensure you have everything you need!
Your Arrival Day: September 9, 2008
What documents do I need to bring with me?
Prior to boarding your flight or arriving by car to the United States, you MUST have the following documentation. Please pack these items in your carry on luggage as you will need this information upon arrival.
Passport with visa stamp*
Original DS2019 Form(J-1 visa holder only)
VERY IMPORTANT (a photocopy is not acceptable)
One photocopy of the following passport information:
Visa stamp*, information page(s) to include: passport number, expiry date, photo, and your signature
Original or certified birth certificate(Q-1 visa holders only)
A photocopy is not acceptable
Proof of medical insurance (This information is not required if you will be working with one of the following companies, Patina Restaurant Group, China Group, Mitsukoshi, Marrakesh Restaurant and San Angel Inn)
Printed receipt for the Program Assessment Fee
Congratulations packet materials
Upon entering the U.S. you will complete a white I-94 Arrival/Departure Record Card. Please be sure to write your name exactly as it appears in your passport. This is a CRITICAL DOCUMENT, DO NOT LOSE IT!
*Candidates traveling on a Canadian passport will not have a visa stampWhere do I go when I arrive in Orlando?
You will need to make your way to our Arrival Center at the Vista Way Housing Complex. There are several modes of transportation you can use to make your way to the complex from Orlando International Airport:
Mears Shuttle Service from the airport to the Vista Way Housing Complex
Mears offers participants a coupon to use the shuttle service at a discounted rate. If you choose to use Mears' services, you will need to present the to the Mears dispatch attendant to receive your discount. You will see the Mears locations on level two (baggage claim) and on level one (ground transportation). The level one service coupon unter location is inside the building behind the bottom of the escalator or directly across from the level one elevators. Mears representatives will direct you to the appropriate motor coach or shuttle van. For more information visit www.mearstransportation.com. We recommend you visit this Web site prior to your departure as it contains helpful tips for making your way through Orlando International Airport.
Taxi, limousine, and car services from the airport to the Vista Way Housing Complex
The Orlando International Airport has a taxi stand located curbside on level one (ground transportation) on both the A and B sides.
Additional options for transportation may also be available; including other shuttles, limos and car services, on the ground transportation level (level one) on both the A and B sides.
A set of Frequently Asked Questions that pertain to your arrival is available now.
If you have any problems en route, such as delayed or canceled flights, please contact our arrivals team at 1-888-839-4890 (toll-free in the US) or 407-560-4681 outside of the US.
Please ensure that you have sent your Flight Information or travel plans to the International Arrivals team at xxxxxx

What happens next?
Depending on your arrival time, transportation may be available to the local shopping center to pick up groceries and other immediate necessities. Remember, you may want to bring bed sheets, a pillow and towels as they are not provided upon arrival. Your itinerary for the rest of the week will include several meetings to get you more familiarized to your new home as well as administrative procedures necessary for becoming a Disney Cast Member!
How should I dress?
Your first orientation sessions are casual in attire; however, your hairstyle, hair coloring, and fingernails must be 100% within the Disney Look guidelines upon your arrival.
You must also be within The Disney Look guidelines in regard to any body modifications or alterations. Examples include, but are not limited to, visible tattoos, body piercings (other than traditional ear piercing for women), tongue piercing, tooth decorations and earlobe expansion.
All males are expected to be within The Disney Look guidelines for facial hair.
You may also click on the link below to review these guidelines on our Web site.
The Disney Look
Please note that you will need professional dress clothes and shoes for your first official day at work.
Safe travels and we will see you soon!