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7 Ways to Distract Yourself From the Fact That Your College Program is Ending

1. Just full on deny it’s happening.

What program? I’m not on a program? It’s not ending? I LIVE HERE THIS IS MY HOME NOW I’M SETTING UP A TENT IN THE ROOKERY

(Pro tip: Make friends with people who also refuse to acknowledge that you’re leaving! Group mentality denial is the strongest sort of denial!)

2. Drink. 

Go take shots with your work friends when you finish your shift, because you can’t cry if the tequila dehydrates you enough.

(Please be advised that this particular tactic can backfire.)

3. Ignore responsibilities & problems back home. 

If you just refuse to acknowledge all the problems you’re gonna have in 3 weeks time when you go home then the problems don’t exist! Right? Right.  

4. Go watch the fireworks.

Pretend this is how much you’ve cried at Happily Ever After all year! You are having a perfectly normal reaction!!! No one look at me when Mufasa’s part starts to blend with "I Can Go the Distance” okay!!! I’M FINE!!! 

5. Half heartedly post things you don’t use on the College Program Trading Post page.

Then remove them as soon as people start offering to buy your things because they’re YOUR THINGS FROM WHEN YOU LIVED AT DISNEY AND THEY CAN’T HAVE THEM.

6. Go shopping.

Just because you can only take 1 suitcase home but you have enough crap to fill about 8 of them doesn’t mean you CAN’T buy more things. It just means you SHOULDN’T. And if your roommate is a BAD INFLUENCE like MINE IS then THIS HAPPENS. 

7. Straight up just refuse to pack.

Packing shows the world that you’ve accepted the end of your program. Be like me! Pour the entire contents of your life onto your shared bedroom floor to “begin packing” and then leave it there indefinitely.

I suppose what I’m trying to say, is that the idea of leaving my life here, and my home at Disney, isn’t something I want to face yet.

I have just over 2 weeks of my program left. 

2 weeks of living with Sarah.

2 weeks of adventures with my Pandora family. 

2 weeks of Rookery rotations and drum circles and being the Unwilling Mayor of Windtraders. 2 weeks left of being able to go to Magic Kingdom whenever I want. 2 more weeks of dancing badly in Move It Shake It. 2 weeks of bus D&M’s with Liv. 

I have 2 weeks left of being a Disney Cast Member.  

So I guess I better make them count. 

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“Goodbye? Oh no, please. Can’t we just go back to page one and start all over again?”

Today my College Program officially ends. 

I have had the most incredible year of my life being surrounded by magic every single day, meeting the people who would become my best friends, and working for the mouse.  

I have posts I still wanted to make, like Christmas on Pandora, like Ryota and I demanding the other carries them to the bus stop to avoid a mouse, like the birth of my friendship with Moify Boif, and like the Banshee Chicken Dance. But I spent so much time trying to soak up every second of this ridiculous program that drawing and writing was sidelined for 3am iHop adventures and 14 hour shifts and last minute fast passes for Tower of Terror. I don’t regret a second of it. 

I was a Disney Cast Member. It’s part of who I am now. I will never forget how much I loved being a part of this madness.

So I’ll leave you with this; Do the Disney College Program if it calls to you. Take the time to know & love your fellow cast. Be good to each other. Get the watermelon margarita at Ale House. Split it with the person you don’t realise is going to become your favourite. Watch Happily Ever After with your friends and try to hold onto what the moment feels like. And if you’re ever in Pandora, find a banshee named Archibald the Third and tell him that Kimberley loves him. 

See ya real soon.   (One final edit, a note from Sarah)