Flubber, Jokes, and Flying Ducks...

The time is fast approaching when I will actually matter on the schedule. At the moment I sometimes don’t have a line, or there’s just a blank box where my name should be. I am considered an appendage to Nicole, my trainer. We are the same person. I pretty much feel like I’m stalking the poor girl everywhere. It’s all good though, because she is teaching me a lot of things I definitely would not have known other wise. It’s called training for a reason.

I did have to do the most nerve wracking thing ever last Saturday - a mock run through as Professor for Flubber in front of the rest of my new ent host team and Sophie, the assistant stage manager (and former YA Ent Host extraordinaire). Lord, have mercy! I would rather have been in a room with 300 children than in front of those five people making imaginary flubber (since we weren’t going to waste materials on me alone). Kids expect me to be a crazy hot mess of a person. My peers expect me to perform a program to their standards and taste. So I went out there and gave it my best, and discovered my professor has a bit of an eastern european accent - kinda Borat meets Boris & Natasha. I had not originally planned this, it just sort of happened. But I like it, and so did they! I was all over the place. I mixed that imaginary flubber like my life depended on it and did everything as I would’ve done for the kids. I wasn’t perfect, but I felt good about it. One week from today and I’ll be doing it for real! Yay!

I’ve seen pretty much every program now and I’ve decided that “Open Mike Night” is my favorite. The premise of the program is that Mike Wazowski and his monster friends end up getting sick and can’t make it to their comedy show so the kids have to put it on themselves. The jokes that come of out the kids are absolutely ridiculous. You never know what they are going to say. Sometimes it’s innocent like Carlos from Miami who’s joke was , “Knock-Knock! (Who’s there?) Pizza! (Pizza who?) Pizza Chicken Face!” And then we have Sarah from Brooklyn who started her joke with, “Yo mamma’s so fat...” and we quickly pulled the mic away from her mouth. Other kids just make silly noises. One little girl blew spit bubbles. It’s amazingly funny and I cannot wait to do it. So excited!!!

In other news, while I was setting up for Cupcakes the other day I was informed I had to report to the Cruise Director’s office for a meeting. There are very few reasons one gets called to the Cruise Director’s office and most of them aren’t good. So I’m starting to spaz out a little bit. Then I find out that four other YA Counselor’s are going to Clayton’s office as well. Soon, we learn that we have been chosen to be part of a special preshow dance number to take place before the crew-only showing of Believe. The best part? We got to ride the trap door lift and dance on the stage of the Walt Disney Theater!

So there we are in our blues and yellows, holding armfuls of Admiral Donald plush toys to throw into the audience and rising from the smoke to “I’m Sexy and I Know It.” Because honestly, who doesn’t feel sexy in a YA uniform? Anyhow - we had to get the crowd pumped up and dancing to Party Rock Anthem. This entailed doing the Running Man. I cannot do the Running Man to save my life, but I faked it to the best of my ability because there was no way I was passing up dancing on that stage. It will probably be the only time I’ll ever get to ride the lift, so I definitely wasn’t going to let my lack of dancing ability keep me from doing it. In fact, the moment Clayton told us that’s how we were going to enter, I sort of zoned out. I was on board for anything at that point. He could’ve told us to perform a Russian ballet or the Bottle Dance from Fiddler and I would’ve been down for it. Why? Because I got to ride the lift!! It’s the simple things in life which make me happy.

The reason all of this dancing occurred is because the Disney Magic and the Disney Dream were docked together in Nassau. The special showing of Believe was actually for the crew of the Disney Magic, but all us Dream folk could go too. We were also allowed to go and visit the Magic if our schedules allowed. Mine didn’t this time, but we’ll be docked with the Magic again soon and hopefully I’ll get to go visit then. I’m hoping to see my friend Mitch from the interviews in Chicago. He works on the Magic in YA! If we do get to meet up, I will definitely post some pictures or something. It would be amazing to see him again. And if Bekkah is back on the Magic, I’d love to see her again too! She also interviewed with me in Chicago, and we ended up in Traditions together as well. We shall see what happens!

My only other news is that my first request to extend my contract and my vacation was denied. I kinda figured it would be, but I’m still working on it. I’m going to try and switch contracts with someone to get a later debark date. As for the vacation time... well... working on that too. Hope is not lost! Have no fear!

Sending everyone my love!