Accepted with 7 months to go.

Hi everyone.

So, last Wednesday the 1st of June, I finally received the e-mail I had been waiting weeks for. I have been offered a position to work at Walt Disney World for a whole year! I was ecstatic to say the least. I was at coffee with a friend and I'm sure everyone who walked past was thinking what the hell just happened?!

So not much can be done presently because my background check can't be sent away until August 1st but has to be received by October 10th. The US require the check to be valid for 6 months before the trip. So I'm counting down the days until I can actually do something.

I've been looking at flight prices and they are fairly expensive at the moment so I'm considering possibly flying from either Brisbane to LAX direct or from Sydney and paying for the flight to Orlando separately as it works out cheaper and if I do that I may stay a day or 2 in LA and do Disney and Universal there just for the experience. Still not sure yet though. Depends on the $$ really. Will be easier though when I hear the dates we need to be there from STB so I can start getting actual quotes.

I have also been looking around for travel insurance and it also seems fairly expensive but hopefully later on when I have exact details it will wind up cheaper somewhere.

January at the moment seems to be so incredibly far away and it is a tad annoying, but I know that this 7 months will go super fast, even faster once I know the dates and start saving and paying off things. I have also decided that I will be buying a Travel Card soon and loading it with a portion of my Tax return because the rate is good at the moment, and I know that I will have USD$1,000 ready to go once I get there but hopefully more, and I won't be able to spend it until I get there which is a bonus!

So I will hopefully be updating this every time something happens and while I'm away on this magical experience.

Until next time.
xx