During training, we would have instruction times and then we would go out and the four of us and our trainer would man one of the positions for whatever parade is going on. We helped with the "Celebrate A Dream Come True Parade," which is at 3pm everyday, "Move It, Shake It, Celebrate It! Street Party," which happens multiple times a day, and "The Magic, The Memories, and You!" show along with the "Electrical Parade" that happens every night at least once at 9pm, most nights at 11pm as well. We get to have a lot of fun most of the time when people are being smart and staying where they need to be. We even get to dance around a little bit and just have fun during the Street Party, so it is quite entertaining. For the 9pm parade, the whole parade rout is super crowded, so it is one of the more difficult parts of our job. People want to stand everywhere, even in the emergency walkways, so we are constantly having to remind people that they cannot stand there and that they may find a place somewhere else. We are always told to give options to the guests so that they can make the best choice for them, so we almost always recommend that they either go to the town square, Frontierland, or wait for the 11pm parade if we have one, since there are not nearly as many people around for the 11pm parade. It is still fun even though some guests get very frustrated with you for telling them that they cannot do something.
As far as evangelism is going, it has been rough the last few days. On Tuesday, we went out to a mall and then downtown Celebration. Me and my group tried to talk to about 10 people and no one even wanted to talk at all and it was sort of depressing until finally the last person we tried to talk to actually let us talk to him. He was a 12 year old boy who was fishing in a lake in downtown Celebration. He was a Christian, so he gave all the typical responses to the questions we were asking, but where the situation got encouraging was when his mom actually came up to us as we were kind of winding down the conversation. She started asking us questions about what we were talking about and started explaining that one of her son's friends was asking a lot of deep questions to her, like about if she believed in God and how that affected her, and she said that she wasn't really sure how to answer some of his other questions. We were glad to talk to her and we showed her some of the information that we have to share with people about God and the website EveryStudent.com where he could type in questions that he had and it should have relevant articles to answer his questions. She was really excited about this, so hopefully she can share these with him and he will be able to have some of his questions answered and come to know God.
On Thursday, we finally started actual work, since we had finally completed all of the training that we need for a while. We arrived at work for our 6:15pm-12:15am shift; we started out working park greeter for 45 minutes, where I got assigned to sweep the whole time... Haha! Anyways, then we went up to our meeting room at 7pm for our meeting before the 9pm parade. It was interesting since it was our first time actually having to do this all by ourselves. I was assigned to Castle 1 position, where during the parade I get a spot along the top of the hub in front of the castle, and watch and make sure that everyone stays back along the curb, there are no people using camera lighting which can be dangerous for the performers, and just making sure everyone is generally safe. Once I have my spot set up, since I am not in an essential area to keep guests moving, I got to do PACtivities! It is just different games and activities that we on PAC do with the guests to entertain them and help them have an enjoyable time while they wait for the parade. One of my fellow PAC people, Alexis, who said he was from Belgium, and I started a jump rope for the kids. At first all the little kids were kind of shy about it, but as soon as we got a few of the little kids to go, we had a long line waiting for their chance to jump rope. It was a lot of fun when the crowd around got into it and would applaud the kids when they would do well. After we had done that for quite a while, we had to get ready for the parade. There were these really young brother and sister who couldn't see if they were back where they had space so since I made myself a nice big box to stand in, I had them come up next to me while the parade was going on and they were so excited to see all the characters. I had the little girl say hi to Ashley, one of the ladies who is in my group, since she was doing the parade escort, and was telling them all about all the different characters. They were so happy and excited to say hi to everyone; it made my night, and I think it made theirs as well. Then after the first parade went by, I was the river-side rope, which means that I hold onto the rope that goes behind the end of the parade while it makes its way through the 2nd half of the rout. I also am helping the person rolling up the rope so that we can keep somewhat in stride with the other side and their rope roller. After we finished up getting all of the stanchions and ropes out of the way, we got a little break before doing the whole thing over again at 11pm. Overall it was a pretty good night, now we get to do it again Friday night, tonight. Since we are finally getting the opportunity to work, hopefully we will be able to make some friends with our coworkers and get an opportunity to find out more about them and love on them with God's love.
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