Tales of a Disney Student : Midway

Hello friends,
Happy Halloween!
I can hardly believe that this week marks the half way point of my adventure here in Florida!
The past two and a half months have been a great learning experience. I am very thankful to those of you who have been praying for me and keeping up on my life while I have been here.
Being a Disney Cast Member has been great and I am already dreading the day when I must say farewell to my fellow Cast Members. Ever since I got past my one month slump, my eyes have been opened to the possibility of building a life here in Florida. -Every place I travel, if it is for a long enough time, I always end up becoming attached to the location.- I see this as a blessing, though it may be difficult to say goodbye, because it means that I have truly lived life to its fullest where I have been.
As I continue to go throughout my day to day life, learning is always happening. At work I am learning to respect and appreciate each and every one of my leaders/managers and co-workers for their unique characteristics. The longer I am here, the more I feel as if Discovery Island Merchandise is my family. Relationship building is an interesting thing to experience as is progresses in time. When I first began working, I felt as though I was being inspected and thus, kept at a distance from others conversations. Now, since I have been here a good while, people know my work ethic and personality so their is so much more familiarity amongst everyone, and I love it! At home I am learning about patience. Living with 5 other girls is not always the simplest of tasks. However, with the strength of my heavenly Father and encouragement from my dear friends and family, I have been succeeding (: Personally I have learned lots about myself. I have become a pretty big perfectionist and cleanliness freak. Not sure when or how I became so obsessed with these two things, but I have. Though neither one of these are negative, it is important not to let them get out of control. God has been working with me and has humbled me a couple times to remind me that I am still human, and make mistakes.
Something that I have recently re-visited, is my human nature to want to conform to this world. For pretty much my entire life I have struggled with being stereo typed before people even get to know me. At times I thought about being completely different, "rebellious", so that this would not happen any more. Up until a few days ago, this had not bothered me, but then I began noticing I was not being invited to hang out with others. Living a life that represents Christ is difficult. Not that my life must be boring, it definitely is not, but I make decisions that do not follow the "social norm". Continued prayer for strength in this area is much appreciated (:

Changing the mood a little... I want to share with you all, in pictures, some things I have been able to see the past couple weeks.