Back to the very beginning...a very good place to start

So I am enjoying my freshman year here at the beautiful University of South Carolina. However, this blog is not about school, it is about an opportunity I have been looking forward to for approximately 2 years now. I am of course speaking of...dancing in the rain wearing nothing but...oh no, wait...I mean The Walt Disney World College Program!

So, a bit of background info. In 2006 my family wanted to take a trip to WDW because we had never been as a family. Well, I took it upon myself to do some background research on the WDW Resort. I learned many many things about this truly magical place, but of everything I was seeing, one thing truly caught my eye. It was called the Walt Disney World College Program (WDWCP for short). I began to learn about this program and knew, that once I was in college, I would be doing this program.

I originally entered the University of South Carolina as a Music Education Major. I really enjoy
playing the trumpet and love music in general. Well due to a multitude of reasons I decided to
switch majors. I searched around a bit for something new and ran across the Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management major. I was sold. I spoke with the advisors in the major and they were truly wonderful informative people. So then I figured, Perfect! This really gives me a reason to do the WDWCP! It turns out that it would even get me credit for a course called HRTM 290!

I decided that I wanted to do the Fall Advantage 2008 program after a series of unfortunate
discoveries made me realize that I could not march in the Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps for a second year (I marched in 2007 and hope to return again). I sat around waiting, with a few others from the Facebook group that was started, for the new application to go up on the WDWCP website.

Well, long story short. I had my interview on January 24. I thought it went really well, I will be
sure to go into more details in a soon to come post. After 4 weeks to the day of waiting. I had my packet! I was accepted into the Fall Advantage Program in Attractions!!! I accepted, registered and paid my fee and now I will be living in beautiful Florida from May 19, 2008 - January 2, 2009!

Well, thank you for bearing through my historical summary. I will be sure to post here as often as I can, or as often as I feel the need to. And I am sure that I will post many times before my program starts to help pass the time. Thank you for joining me on this exciting adventure!

-John