Well ten thousand miles to be more accurate. That's the approximate distance from Adelaide, my current city of Residence, to Orlando, Florida, where I hope to be living this time next year.
I am hoping to be accepted into the Disney International College Program, which would involve moving to Florida to live and work at the Walt Disney World Theme Parks and Resorts. The program is open to university students and recent graduates from around the world and operates as a sort of paid internship program. I plan to go into more detail about the program in future posts but for now I just want to introduce myself.
My name is Rebecca, although most people just call me Bec. I am Australian and I'm in my final year of studying Costume for Performance and I hope to work in costume for live theatre. My two big goals are to work on a big Broadway production (I'd be happy to be a dresser or to wash the costumes!) and to work as a costume designer. Costuming is actually my second career, I used to be a primary school teacher, but when I found that teaching really wasn't what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, I decided to pursue my passion for live theatre.
Disney has always been a big part of my life and working for Disney has been something I've wanted for several years now (I might tell that story another time) and when I discovered the ICP I knew I wanted to go for it. I started researching immediately and whilst I found heaps of information there wasn't a lot that was specific to Australians and there was even less for 'older' participants (I'm 30 years old). So, I decided that I would try to record my application journey and if I get into the program I will blog my program experience too so that others might get some help from my experience. I'm applying for the 2015 12 month program that starts in January 2015 but since applications aren't even open yet, I won't have much to say for a little while. But I'll update as much as I can.
So welcome to my journey of ten thousand miles, that begins in Australia and hopefully ends in The Magic Kingdom!
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