Although today is usually one of my days off, I chose to voluntee,r welcoming in approximately 500 of the almost 10,000 Disney College Program people, that will spend at least one semester as a Disney Cast Member. My role today: setting up each new Cast Member with either Direct Deposit or a Check Card. No big thing but very rewarding, with some travelling from the far reaches of the globe, just for the opportunity to work at Disney. Some ready to conquer, some......not so much, scared, homesick and for many, their first time away from home. Within the next two or three weeks, the majority will be seasoned Disney Cast Members
What today conjured up in my all too active mind....new students arriving at the Sisters of Charity, Holy Family Mother House....also known as the Academy of the Holy Family...all girls boarding school. During the last week of August and the first week of September, many young ladies, high school age, arrive at this school, they too come from around the world, some scared, it may also be their first time away from home. Others....oh...not so much, this group being the seasoned boarding school gang, many are children of their respective country's diplomats, others, problem "rich kids", badly in need of the restrictive hand of the good Sisters of Charity, the last group.......well bred, well to do offspring, whose parents want them to receive the very best Christian education possible. Mix these groups together, adding a touch of local student flavor and the results........a unique, somewhat seasoned melting pot, all waiting and wanting to learn....particularly from each other.
As these young ladies checked into their dorms, listening to rules and regulations set forth by the Sisters, they soon learned walking to the local Post Office, convenience store or Fred's News, was only allowed during "free time", with all other activities highly monitored, by as one of the young ladies announced in Fred's News, "our captors." In defense of the Nuns........all the credit, strength, devotion, down right fortitude and "heavenly intervention" is needed, to outwit and keep tabs on many of these young women.
In the years before the State of Connecticut banned smoking in restaurants, these young ladies could chain smoke at least a half dozen cigarettes before their "captors" realized they were late returning from their walk to either the Post Office or convenience store. They could also consume numerous bags of chips, plates of french fries, using one bottle of ketchup per plate of fries, rearrange the entire seating plan of the restaurant, find ways to shop lift cans of soda, candy bars, chips and at one point one of the artificial house plants used in the darker corners of the restaurant. All of these items with the exception of the house plants could be smuggled into a dorm room quite easily. The plant never returned, the Sisters never noticed it adorning one of the dorms, only because they were actually looking for contraband, the house plant not exactly one of the forbidden items, why should it be. For lack of a better explanation, we have surmised...... if someone actually saw it, they liked it...probably added color or that outdoorsy look to the otherwise drab dormitory surroundings.
What today conjured up in my all too active mind....new students arriving at the Sisters of Charity, Holy Family Mother House....also known as the Academy of the Holy Family...all girls boarding school. During the last week of August and the first week of September, many young ladies, high school age, arrive at this school, they too come from around the world, some scared, it may also be their first time away from home. Others....oh...not so much, this group being the seasoned boarding school gang, many are children of their respective country's diplomats, others, problem "rich kids", badly in need of the restrictive hand of the good Sisters of Charity, the last group.......well bred, well to do offspring, whose parents want them to receive the very best Christian education possible. Mix these groups together, adding a touch of local student flavor and the results........a unique, somewhat seasoned melting pot, all waiting and wanting to learn....particularly from each other.
As these young ladies checked into their dorms, listening to rules and regulations set forth by the Sisters, they soon learned walking to the local Post Office, convenience store or Fred's News, was only allowed during "free time", with all other activities highly monitored, by as one of the young ladies announced in Fred's News, "our captors." In defense of the Nuns........all the credit, strength, devotion, down right fortitude and "heavenly intervention" is needed, to outwit and keep tabs on many of these young women.
In the years before the State of Connecticut banned smoking in restaurants, these young ladies could chain smoke at least a half dozen cigarettes before their "captors" realized they were late returning from their walk to either the Post Office or convenience store. They could also consume numerous bags of chips, plates of french fries, using one bottle of ketchup per plate of fries, rearrange the entire seating plan of the restaurant, find ways to shop lift cans of soda, candy bars, chips and at one point one of the artificial house plants used in the darker corners of the restaurant. All of these items with the exception of the house plants could be smuggled into a dorm room quite easily. The plant never returned, the Sisters never noticed it adorning one of the dorms, only because they were actually looking for contraband, the house plant not exactly one of the forbidden items, why should it be. For lack of a better explanation, we have surmised...... if someone actually saw it, they liked it...probably added color or that outdoorsy look to the otherwise drab dormitory surroundings.
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