Ema Earns Her Ears: My Secret Walt Disney World Cast Member Diary (Earning Your Ears Book 2) by Ema Hutton Page B
Authors: Ema Hutton
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next to on the plane. She was a dancer from Sheffield. We instantly connected over our love of musicals, and she had told us she was going to be a performer, too. We had chatted quite a bit in the departure lounge at the airport. So she came to sit with us to eat cookies while we waited for the presentation to start. I asked her where she was going to be living. Chatham! She had requested to live with someone, too, but they were coming in on the London flight and hadn’t arrived yet. I told her we were also in Chatham so we could meet up before all the orientation meetings, I asked for her apartment number. 21204!
Can you believe it? Three performers under one roof. This was going to be the best summer ever.
At this moment, I heard a friendly American voice and turned around to see Mickey standing there, the man who had helped me the year before. I gave him the biggest smile and he smiled back and waved I couldn’t wait to tell him that I had gotten my dream job. But first, we had to sit through a video presentation and a mini-introduction to the program. It was the same presentation video we had watched the year before, and to be honest, I already knew what it was like to be in the program. It was a new year and things may have changed, but I was so excited to be living with Amy and Katie, and just being back here, that I couldn’t concentrate.
When the presentation was over, it was time to go find our suitcases that had been unloaded from the taxi and piled up in the corner. For those of us who weren’t living in Vista, we were told to get our luggage and board the mini bus for our designated complex. I went with Amy, Katie, Vicki (another girl who would also be living with us), and a few others living in Chatham, including Sarah Smiles. Sarah won the legacy award, the highest of the cast member awards, which means that you are truly fantasmic, and entitles you to a blue nametag so everyone knows it. The bus ride to Chatham helped me learn how this girl lives up to her name of Sarah Smiles, because she has a phobia to silence and really does smile, a lot. Whenever conversation lapsed, she would pick it up with a spiel about our favorite parks and characters, films, housing complexes, things to do outside of Disney, where the best shops are, what food we have to try, and everything else imaginable. She did get us all talking, and by the time we got off the bus we were no longer as awkward toward one another as we had been when we got on. I suppose that was the point.
Our apartment was in the back left-hand corner of the complex, with a view of Patterson Court, one of the other complexes. We opened our front door and saw a flight of stairs, an unusual layout for a Disney apartment. We dragged our mountain of luggage up the stairs, and once in the apartment proper we found other suitcases that had already been unpacked. We had roommates. But none of them were in. They must have arrived on an earlier flight, which meant they weren’t British because our plane was the first one from England to land in Orlando that day.
Amy and I found a room where both beds were free and grabbed it. My bed was pushed up next to the window. We had a shared bathroom which joined two rooms, and we walked through to find Katie and Vicki setting up camp. I knew I had to get my bed made first, because if we went out I wouldn’t want to do it when I got back, and it makes me feel more at home. I opened my suitcase and rooted around the mountain of clothes and shoes to find my bedding and covers. And that leads into another story.
As I’m going through my suitcase, Amy is unpacking clothes and finding places for all her bits and bobs around our room. She had started to organize her make up on the dresser while I was putting sheets on my mattress and pillowcases on my pillows. All I had left to do was the duvet. This is always a challenge for any British person, but add jet lag and it can become even more confusing. I find the easiest way to
Can you believe it? Three performers under one roof. This was going to be the best summer ever.
At this moment, I heard a friendly American voice and turned around to see Mickey standing there, the man who had helped me the year before. I gave him the biggest smile and he smiled back and waved I couldn’t wait to tell him that I had gotten my dream job. But first, we had to sit through a video presentation and a mini-introduction to the program. It was the same presentation video we had watched the year before, and to be honest, I already knew what it was like to be in the program. It was a new year and things may have changed, but I was so excited to be living with Amy and Katie, and just being back here, that I couldn’t concentrate.
When the presentation was over, it was time to go find our suitcases that had been unloaded from the taxi and piled up in the corner. For those of us who weren’t living in Vista, we were told to get our luggage and board the mini bus for our designated complex. I went with Amy, Katie, Vicki (another girl who would also be living with us), and a few others living in Chatham, including Sarah Smiles. Sarah won the legacy award, the highest of the cast member awards, which means that you are truly fantasmic, and entitles you to a blue nametag so everyone knows it. The bus ride to Chatham helped me learn how this girl lives up to her name of Sarah Smiles, because she has a phobia to silence and really does smile, a lot. Whenever conversation lapsed, she would pick it up with a spiel about our favorite parks and characters, films, housing complexes, things to do outside of Disney, where the best shops are, what food we have to try, and everything else imaginable. She did get us all talking, and by the time we got off the bus we were no longer as awkward toward one another as we had been when we got on. I suppose that was the point.
Our apartment was in the back left-hand corner of the complex, with a view of Patterson Court, one of the other complexes. We opened our front door and saw a flight of stairs, an unusual layout for a Disney apartment. We dragged our mountain of luggage up the stairs, and once in the apartment proper we found other suitcases that had already been unpacked. We had roommates. But none of them were in. They must have arrived on an earlier flight, which meant they weren’t British because our plane was the first one from England to land in Orlando that day.
Amy and I found a room where both beds were free and grabbed it. My bed was pushed up next to the window. We had a shared bathroom which joined two rooms, and we walked through to find Katie and Vicki setting up camp. I knew I had to get my bed made first, because if we went out I wouldn’t want to do it when I got back, and it makes me feel more at home. I opened my suitcase and rooted around the mountain of clothes and shoes to find my bedding and covers. And that leads into another story.
As I’m going through my suitcase, Amy is unpacking clothes and finding places for all her bits and bobs around our room. She had started to organize her make up on the dresser while I was putting sheets on my mattress and pillowcases on my pillows. All I had left to do was the duvet. This is always a challenge for any British person, but add jet lag and it can become even more confusing. I find the easiest way to
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