Question (mainly for alumni)!

Yep!!! Housing provided for a certain period, I think up to six months.

Not that this is my summer 2007 plan or anything.....hehe.....

markus.strohschank@disney.com is the contact!!

soleil plage....what was the audition like? I have very little (ok, lets be honest, no!) acting/dancing experience, but the audition material all says no experience needed, just enthusiasm and a desire for magic making? Is it right?

 

enthusiasm and the right attitude are all you need (and a willingness to learn french is important too) I had no entertainment experience either - and it wasn't like an audition where you had to dance (omg - I'd have failed on the spot!!)

 

I emailed DLRP several times about being a CM there but each time I was told I needed to speak French. :-\ Is that guy markus in entertainment? I contacted entertainment earlier this year using DLP.CASTING.PARADE@disney.com. I'd love to do characters/parades and have been considering learning french. But since being accepted for DCL I hadn't given it much more thought. :-\

Sorry to hijack the original post. Lol. :-[ ;D

It's funny I've been thinking alot about this lately.

I graduated with my BSc(hons) Maths before I went on the program. Hadn't a clue what I was gonna do when I came home. Figured I figure it out while I was out there. Ha! Bad plan! charlene is so right. Have some idea of what you're gonna do when you get back. I decided to come back to Glasgow uni and do a PGCE. Which I did and completed last year. But guess what. I've got the pixie dust bug. All I know now is that I want to work for the mouse. That's it. Nothing else. And being British...... well let's just say that's not an easy thing to achieve. So since the summer I've been temping and trying to apply for DCL, DLRP etc.

I wouldn't swap my year for anything. It's was amazing and I would never regret doing it. But.... it has messed me up. But I'm not sure that's a bad thing. :-\ I was wondering just this week where I'd be now if I'd never done the program. Would I have been happy with a career as an actuary or something else? I guess i'll never know.

Don't let this put you off. Just be aware that you're life could end up going in a direction you'd never imagined. But hey, that can happen whether you do the WDWIP or not.

So...... for a clearer answer, ask me again in 5 years. ;D

Ona

 

I have to agree with the come home and be a bum side of the deal. Back home for a year and a half and still with the parents, working my crappy old job that I had for years before going. I actually had a REALLY good full-time job, pretty much using my education, before going to Orlando, but there was no choice to be made...I was going!! And there are a lot of my fellow alumni in this same situation. Coming home and back to the reality outside the Disney bubble was really depressing and to be completely honest, it takes a while to readjust...I don't think you ever completely do!!! I have no idea now what I want to do. I loved my job...I know, I'm a disney dork just like Ona!! I have spent a lot of my time since coming back travelling to see my Disney people, so it helps to have the job that I do now where I can pick up and leave without too much hassle. I feel like that flexibility is what is keeping me from trying to get a real job...that and the fact that I'm from Canada and my boyfriend is from Scotland. Puts a wrench in my plans a little. I dunno. I'm babbling, so I'll stop.

Shan

 

Markus is the general casting contact for all roles, for UK people.

I'm forwardding an e-mail with application details and an application form to you! It says all roles, except the entertainment ones, require French skills.

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