Hi all!
No, that title isn't purposefully misleading. I did it!
Yesterday at 7.21am I received my 'Congratulations' email from Disney informing me that I'd been accepted for Merchandise!
After a lot of screaming and excitement I told my mum whereupon she join in with the screaming and excitement. I cancelled my plans for the rest of the day (sorry, plans) and set to work completing all the steps and paperwork that I could. And let me tell you there were a bloody lot of them. Throughout the day I managed to accept my offer, pay my program fee, choose and pay for my health insurance, order a police background check, download and complete the hire documentation (I don't think I was supposed to do this yet though), start email communication with a travel agent and start a passport application for my mum.
Somewhere in there (during the hour and a half wait between accepting the offer and the arrival of the 'next step to accept' email) I called my dad and even though I'd managed to keep my eyes perfectly dry all morning I started crying as soon as he answered the call. He congratulated me and then told me to stop crying and be happy. I laughed, agreed and then told him that with all the preparation I had left to do I didn't have any spare time to cry.
I spent the rest of the day drowning in paperwork and trying to keep all my documents organised. When I finally headed over to my dads I got a quiet moment to myself in my car. With my Disney playlist blaring through the radio it finally started to hit me exactly what the day had meant. I did it. I finally did it.
After two years of preparing and waiting and wishing upon all the stars in the sky I'd finally got my chance. And as my favorite line from one of my new favorite Disney songs, 'Once Upon A Time In New York City' (Oliver and Co.), played through the speakers I sung along and started crying again.
"Keep that dream alive, dreaming is still how the strong survive."
It finally dawned on me: I was strong. I had survived. And now my dream was finally coming true.
- Lily
P.s. I will be making more detailed posts on accepting an offer, paying the program fee, health insurance and the background check so keep an eye out for those. I'll also chuck them all in the 'Important Stuff' page here. I have very limited access to internet at the moment though so updates might be a little slow. I'll also be posting about the hire documentation but maybe not until Disney actually tells us to do that.
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