Day 2
I thought yesterday was crazy and busy. Today was ridiculous. Fortunately, I didn't have "class" (or training) until 10. I introduced my roommates to the buses here. Fun adventure. We had to walk about two blocks to get to the bus and then another couple of blocks to get to the meeting place. Class was supposed to end at 1:30, but we were out by noon. Thankfully. My feet hurt, I was hungry, and it was too hot. I still haven't fully gotten used to California heat. Fortunately, it felt nice when I finally had on shorts, t-shirt and sandals.
The class, or training wasn't too bad. We learned the importance of networking, and even had hands on experience with networking. We also took pictures for ID badges that we'll receive tomorrow. I'm so excited to get my ID badge. I already know what I'm going to do when I get my badge, after training :)
After training, I had lunch and went shopping. Before arriving, they said to bring $200-$300 to cover food for the first couple weeks before we start getting paychecks. Apparently they expect everyone to drive in - and it seems to be the case. I've talked to one person who drove 4 days to get here. On a Facebook group of California participants, I read about another person who's 3 days in to her drive here. Apparently the $200-$300 for food assumes you have everything else you need. Good thing we're currently sharing all the food in the apartment. Of food I personally chose for myself, I have a loaf of bread, lunch meat, 2 cans of chili and pasta. NOT going to last for 2 weeks. Guess I'm going to be eating light for the next couple weeks... Of course, on that note, dinner tonight was free, tomorrow night is a spaghetti party at another participants room, Thursday dinner is free again. That'll make it easier. The sandwich for lunch tomorrow is the only dent I've made in my meager food supplies.
This afternoon, we had a welcome party. Free pizza, prizes, dancing. Met a lot of awesome people. I even won a price for dancing (even though I can't dance): An apple slicer. After the party, I went shopping again for more things that I needed, and then came back home to continue unpacking (very slow process when I'm so physically tired). This room was very busy tonight as well. One of my roommates was making dinner and it seemed like people kept getting drawn to our room by the smells. Met even more people that way. Actually, that's how we got invited to the spaghetti party. I'm already loving this place :)
Tomorrow is a very early day. Training starts at 8 AM. We have to check-in by 7:30. Because of the time and how much my feet hurt (and the amount of walking we'll be doing during training) I'm NOT taking the bus tomorrow. Actually, none of my roommates are going to take the bus. We're all going to carpool together. Don't have to wake up as early, yay!! Training is 8 hours long, ending at 4. Because we get our IDs tomorrow, I'm pretty sure most, if not all, of the participants are going to Disneyland tomorrow. It'll only be 4 hours, but that's better than nothing. Besides, we'll be here until August. There's plenty of time to experience the park, both after work and on our days off.
During training, we also got a little more information about dress codes for work and specific training information for our areas of work. Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out much more information for my line of work (food and beverage) from what they gave me. Each location has a slightly different attire. From the looks of it, the time of training also varies. Most of all the other food and beverage people that I've found and talked to have training at 11 AM on Wednesday. Mine is at 8. Good news is that I'll be done sooner. Bad news is that I have to wake up so early. I don't even have a choice of car pool at all. At least, not yet. Haven't met anyone else in food and beverage with training at 8.
Oh! I never mentioned anything about the awesomeness of my apartment yesterday! The living room/dining room area is huge! The bedroom I'm in seems a bit small for 3 people, but so far it's working. I hope it remains that way. Surprisingly, none of the rooms have lights on the ceiling. Instead, there's one lamp in my bedroom, one in the other bedroom, and one in the living room. Fortunately, there's full floor to ceiling windows covering most of the outer wall in the living room, and bedroom. That goes for both outer walls in the bedroom. Yep, that's right. The bedroom I'm in is a corner-room, and it's pretty awesome. I woke up at 6:30 this morning for some odd reason, and saw the most beautiful sunrise ever! It might even have compared to Pullman sunrises had I ever been awake early enough to experience them. I decided I was going to wake up just so I could take a picture and watch the sunrise, but as soon as I thought that, I was out again, and waking up to my alarm an hour later. Of course, then I couldn't get back to sleep if I wanted, the sun was fully up, and shining into the rooms (which is probably why there isn't any ceiling lights, the sun provides PLENTY of light). I can definitely live with more of that. No way are we closing our blinds :)
It's definitely past my bedtime now. I will definitely try and write again tomorrow. Hope everyone in Washington, Idaho, or wherever you are reading from is doing good!
~Amber
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