100 Days
100 Days.
I have been on the waitlist for the Cultural Representative Program for 100 days. Its crazy to think that one hundred days ago today I received that waitlist email from Disney, that I screamed with joy in my own house that I got waitlisted, that I have a 99% chance of working in Walt Disney World one day in the distant future.
When that email landed in my inbox I honestly thought that I would not be able to wait such a long time, that I’d continue constantly checking my emails even though I know I won’t receive any news from Disney for months. Well... it’s not been as bad as I originally thought; I’ve had plenty of distractions to take my mind off the CRP waitlist, from changing jobs, to organising a trip to Disneyland Paris with 2 other fellow CRP waitlisters (shout out to Chloe and Alice!) and everything in between.
And even though on the surface the past one hundred days haven’t seemed too bad, being on the waitlist is still such a strange situation to be in. In one respect your continuing on with normal, every day life going to work, seeing friends and family etc, but on the other there’s a part of you resisting planning things so far ahead in the future because you don’t know the situation you’ll be in next year. You really don’t know what direction you’re heading in; that congratulations email could drop any day and how can you honestly plan your future with the uncertainty of not knowing what your arrival date is for the CRP or when that congratulations email is going to arrive?
It sounds cliché but feel like Rapunzel right now, waiting in her tower, looking out towards the sky, dreaming and wondering when my Disney adventure will truly begin...
You know that being waitlisted is a possible outcome right from the start the moment you send off your application to Yummy Jobs, you know that out of the several outcomes that arise from the final interview that the majority of people do get waitlisted, and even though there is a high possibility that one day I will receive that congratulations email, that one day I will know my start date for the CRP, I still might get rejected, I still might not go, which at the end of the day is terrifying and upsetting.
Anyway being a Negative Nancy isn’t the tone I aim for on this blog, being on the waitlist for 100 days means I am one hundred days closer to finally being accepted into the program, one hundred days closer to flying to Orlando and being reunited with friends who are flying out to start their programs soon, and one hundred days closer to living out my dream for a year.
I’ve waited 100 days so far, I’m sure one hundred more won’t hurt.
Until next time x
I have been on the waitlist for the Cultural Representative Program for 100 days. Its crazy to think that one hundred days ago today I received that waitlist email from Disney, that I screamed with joy in my own house that I got waitlisted, that I have a 99% chance of working in Walt Disney World one day in the distant future.
When that email landed in my inbox I honestly thought that I would not be able to wait such a long time, that I’d continue constantly checking my emails even though I know I won’t receive any news from Disney for months. Well... it’s not been as bad as I originally thought; I’ve had plenty of distractions to take my mind off the CRP waitlist, from changing jobs, to organising a trip to Disneyland Paris with 2 other fellow CRP waitlisters (shout out to Chloe and Alice!) and everything in between.
And even though on the surface the past one hundred days haven’t seemed too bad, being on the waitlist is still such a strange situation to be in. In one respect your continuing on with normal, every day life going to work, seeing friends and family etc, but on the other there’s a part of you resisting planning things so far ahead in the future because you don’t know the situation you’ll be in next year. You really don’t know what direction you’re heading in; that congratulations email could drop any day and how can you honestly plan your future with the uncertainty of not knowing what your arrival date is for the CRP or when that congratulations email is going to arrive?
It sounds cliché but feel like Rapunzel right now, waiting in her tower, looking out towards the sky, dreaming and wondering when my Disney adventure will truly begin...
You know that being waitlisted is a possible outcome right from the start the moment you send off your application to Yummy Jobs, you know that out of the several outcomes that arise from the final interview that the majority of people do get waitlisted, and even though there is a high possibility that one day I will receive that congratulations email, that one day I will know my start date for the CRP, I still might get rejected, I still might not go, which at the end of the day is terrifying and upsetting.
Anyway being a Negative Nancy isn’t the tone I aim for on this blog, being on the waitlist for 100 days means I am one hundred days closer to finally being accepted into the program, one hundred days closer to flying to Orlando and being reunited with friends who are flying out to start their programs soon, and one hundred days closer to living out my dream for a year.
I’ve waited 100 days so far, I’m sure one hundred more won’t hurt.
Until next time x
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