All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them

So in 137 days I will be on a plane jetting off to Florida for a 10 week summer internship of working in the one and only Disneyworld Florida, followed by 3 and a half weeks of travelling around America!  It is needless to say that I am very excited and still have to pinch myself to reassure myself it is real! :)

I first discovered this amazing opportunity on New Years' Eve 2011 when I went back to London to celebrate the new year with my housemate and two of her friends.  One of her friend's told me about the amazing summer she had planned for 2012, working in Disneyworld Florida, and I knew right away that this was something I HAD to do!

Firstly, I’ll run through the application process!  Last summer I completed an online application form and submitted my CV to the YummyJobs website and had to wait patiently until October to find out whether I had got through the first stage!  The next stage was an interview in Manchester, which meant a very early start and train journey from Birmingham.  The interview day included an exciting presentation about the summer internship program and followed by group interviews!  These weren’t as bad as I thought and you just had to make sure you were heard and stood out from the other 9 people being interviewed at the same time!  After excitingly getting through this stage, I was invited to the FINAL interview in London.  I was actually pretty excited about this interview as it was held a stone’s throw from where I worked during my placement year at IBM on the Southbank!  The final interview involved another presentation about working for Disney and then a one-on-one interview.  Although originally thinking I had done well in the interview, after I got home I got into the mode of assessing everything I had said and how I could have answered the questions better - never a good state of mind to get in to!  So after a 10 day wait, which seemed three times that long, whilst I was on a train to Leeds for my friend’s birthday party, I got an email to say I had got the job!  I would be starting on the 3rd June working in Merchandise.  Absolutely ecstatic does not even begin to cover it!! I am officially off to the happiest place on Earth; Disneyworld!!