http://hogwartsstation.mypodcast.com/2010/09/Gophers_Thimble_of_Wisedom_1-327209.html
Enjoy the first edition of Gopher's Thimble of Wisedom! Contribute more questions for future shows on the forum!
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
New Podcast! (sort of)
http://hogwartsstation.mypodcast.com/2010/08/Gophers_Callin_Show-320431.html
Enjoy this classic podcast from 2005. This was episode 2 of Gopher's Call-in Show. More to come.
Enjoy this classic podcast from 2005. This was episode 2 of Gopher's Call-in Show. More to come.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Site Revamp
As you may have noticed, we have switched out the rather uninteresting homepage we previously used (still available at site.hogwartsstation.net for those who want to see it) and replaced it with this blog as our homepage. This may be a better fit for us, as a static, unchanging homepage with little helpful information isn't going to draw anyone in. However, we are going to need user participation from everyone to make this work! That's why I'm calling on all you creative, interesting HSers to contribute your occasional thoughts, to help make this blog and vibrant portal to Hogwarts Station. Thanks guys!
Friday, March 5, 2010
Chronicles of a Cast Member 3/5/10
My name is Chrissy. On 2/8/2010 I entered into the Disney Career Start Program at the Walt Disney World Resort. These are my experiences.
"Career Start? What is that?"
First let me start off by saying I'm sorry it took so long to get an entry up. I have been super busy the last 3 weeks.
My program started on Feb. 8th 2010 in a pretty normal way.
The 2 1/2 drive up from Melbourne to Orlando.
The un-packing.
The Meeting of roommates.
Casting.
Ect. Ect.
My room mates (Who I am sure will make cameos through out this adventure) Jessica, Cashmere, and Lexy, are really amazing. For total strangers, I lucked out on getting to room with them.
Jessica and I share one room, While Cash and Lexy share the other.
Jessica and I have created a bond already, and I think that will help us live with each other for the 6 months we are here.
Work.
I work as a Tomorrow Land Merchant. Meaning that I am randomly in one of the Three Zones. There are 8 different locations that I work at. Usually 2-3 a day.
I prefer Zone 1 (Mickey's Star Traders, and Merchants of Venus, and The Pin Cart, and SpeedWay Cart.) Zone 3 would take 2nd (Buzz Imaging, and Buzz Cart), while Zone 2 is my least favorite (Space Mountain Arcade, Ursa's Hat Cart).
I get anywhere from 32-40 hours a week. Sometimes more on peek weeks.
Tomorrow land's Merchants are all pretty nice. There are a few I don't get along with, but I am usually with someone I like in whichever zone I am in.
I love doing my job. Whether it be Stocking, Working register, Merchentainment, or Just doing Magical Moments, the guest interaction can't be beat. I love people, and I meet some pretty cool humans all day.
Push, our talking trash can, is probably the cutest thing on earth.
The Costumes are basic, and yet WAY better than some of the other's.
The Managers are amazing. Even the 2 that are on the bottom of my list really aren't that bad.
Side note.
ASIANS. Oh my god. There are so many here. One mention of Super Junior and I have befriended them all. lol. 7 total so far. 5 Koreans, and 2 Chinese. and that is just where I work. There are so many more I see around everyday.
Perks.
It is free for me to get into the parks. In my first 5 days here, that is all I did. I went to every park in my first week of officially working here, and I still do it.
The discount in the shops isn't really anything to woot about but it is still a discount.
AND I get in 3 people free, and 40% off hotels. Which is nice. Especially for family.
It is $6 for me to see movies at the big AMC theater in Downtown.
Everything, Including SeaWorld, and Universal are close by, AND give discounts!
Closing thoughts.
I really have enjoyed my first month (as of the 8th of March) of my program. Can't wait for the next 5. This has been a true dream come true for me. I look forward to writting about my experiences in later blogs. If you have any questions for me, or things you'd like me to mention in my next blog let me know. I will try to do these once a Week/Month.
Have a Magical Day!
Love,
Chrissy.
"Career Start? What is that?"
First let me start off by saying I'm sorry it took so long to get an entry up. I have been super busy the last 3 weeks.
My program started on Feb. 8th 2010 in a pretty normal way.
The 2 1/2 drive up from Melbourne to Orlando.
The un-packing.
The Meeting of roommates.
Casting.
Ect. Ect.
My room mates (Who I am sure will make cameos through out this adventure) Jessica, Cashmere, and Lexy, are really amazing. For total strangers, I lucked out on getting to room with them.
Jessica and I share one room, While Cash and Lexy share the other.
Jessica and I have created a bond already, and I think that will help us live with each other for the 6 months we are here.
Work.
I work as a Tomorrow Land Merchant. Meaning that I am randomly in one of the Three Zones. There are 8 different locations that I work at. Usually 2-3 a day.
I prefer Zone 1 (Mickey's Star Traders, and Merchants of Venus, and The Pin Cart, and SpeedWay Cart.) Zone 3 would take 2nd (Buzz Imaging, and Buzz Cart), while Zone 2 is my least favorite (Space Mountain Arcade, Ursa's Hat Cart).
I get anywhere from 32-40 hours a week. Sometimes more on peek weeks.
Tomorrow land's Merchants are all pretty nice. There are a few I don't get along with, but I am usually with someone I like in whichever zone I am in.
I love doing my job. Whether it be Stocking, Working register, Merchentainment, or Just doing Magical Moments, the guest interaction can't be beat. I love people, and I meet some pretty cool humans all day.
Push, our talking trash can, is probably the cutest thing on earth.
The Costumes are basic, and yet WAY better than some of the other's.
The Managers are amazing. Even the 2 that are on the bottom of my list really aren't that bad.
Side note.
ASIANS. Oh my god. There are so many here. One mention of Super Junior and I have befriended them all. lol. 7 total so far. 5 Koreans, and 2 Chinese. and that is just where I work. There are so many more I see around everyday.
Perks.
It is free for me to get into the parks. In my first 5 days here, that is all I did. I went to every park in my first week of officially working here, and I still do it.
The discount in the shops isn't really anything to woot about but it is still a discount.
AND I get in 3 people free, and 40% off hotels. Which is nice. Especially for family.
It is $6 for me to see movies at the big AMC theater in Downtown.
Everything, Including SeaWorld, and Universal are close by, AND give discounts!
Closing thoughts.
I really have enjoyed my first month (as of the 8th of March) of my program. Can't wait for the next 5. This has been a true dream come true for me. I look forward to writting about my experiences in later blogs. If you have any questions for me, or things you'd like me to mention in my next blog let me know. I will try to do these once a Week/Month.
Have a Magical Day!
Love,
Chrissy.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Novenas
There's a tradition in Colombia come the 16th of December that goes on every night until Christmas Eve. It is only held in Colombia as far as I know, maybe Gaby might confirm if it's held in Venezuela.
It's called The Novena. Or roughly translated in English, The Nine(no, not in a LOTR sense)
All throughout the nine days from the 16 to the 24th of December, there's a prayer practice that according to Catholicism, you do in order to obtain a grace or general well being for you and your loved ones. So you go to a relative's house, you pray with your family, usually the adults make the little kids read little prayer excerpts called gozos, you sing a few carols, and then.... you eat!!!
It's very, very much a family thing.
Usually, families over here are pretty big (my mom has 4 sisters and one brother, I've got 9 cousins just on my mom's side), so the novenas are a way to meet every relative as distant as they may be. So, in a novena I might go to my mother's aunt's house, where all my second cousins(sons and daughters of my mother's cousins) are there, and we say hi, and just the way so many people do, we exchange phone numbers and promise to call each other after all the holiday frenzy is through, but it rarely happens. Same thing applies on my father's side.
So throughout all those days I reunite with these people, and it's always so damn awkward and uncomfortable up to the point of creepiness...
I remember a time when my first cousins and I were like 10-ish, every time that we were gonna meet some distant cousins, we always used to say "Holy Shit, we're gonna see the Children of the Corn again!" It was always very strange when we were young. Sitting in a big room, with these kids that you see only once in the novenas, staring at you almost blinklessly...
It was weird.
But then the years passed and I don't remember who did it first, but we actually called each other and planned a cousins' night out. Turned out to be a pretty neat experience, so now a cousin and I hang out very often, as she is also interested in photography so we've got plenty of stuff to talk about.
So yeah, there it is, novenas.
Gotta go. Haven't finished my Christmas shopping.
It's called The Novena. Or roughly translated in English, The Nine(no, not in a LOTR sense)
All throughout the nine days from the 16 to the 24th of December, there's a prayer practice that according to Catholicism, you do in order to obtain a grace or general well being for you and your loved ones. So you go to a relative's house, you pray with your family, usually the adults make the little kids read little prayer excerpts called gozos, you sing a few carols, and then.... you eat!!!
It's very, very much a family thing.
Usually, families over here are pretty big (my mom has 4 sisters and one brother, I've got 9 cousins just on my mom's side), so the novenas are a way to meet every relative as distant as they may be. So, in a novena I might go to my mother's aunt's house, where all my second cousins(sons and daughters of my mother's cousins) are there, and we say hi, and just the way so many people do, we exchange phone numbers and promise to call each other after all the holiday frenzy is through, but it rarely happens. Same thing applies on my father's side.
So throughout all those days I reunite with these people, and it's always so damn awkward and uncomfortable up to the point of creepiness...
I remember a time when my first cousins and I were like 10-ish, every time that we were gonna meet some distant cousins, we always used to say "Holy Shit, we're gonna see the Children of the Corn again!" It was always very strange when we were young. Sitting in a big room, with these kids that you see only once in the novenas, staring at you almost blinklessly...
It was weird.
But then the years passed and I don't remember who did it first, but we actually called each other and planned a cousins' night out. Turned out to be a pretty neat experience, so now a cousin and I hang out very often, as she is also interested in photography so we've got plenty of stuff to talk about.
So yeah, there it is, novenas.
Gotta go. Haven't finished my Christmas shopping.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Rants of a Colombian Passport
- Andorra
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Chile
- Ecuador
- Israel
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- North&South Korea
- Laos
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Uruguay
^^^^^The only fifteen countries in the world that do NOT ask Colombians for a visa.
There is something that I love to do. Apart from the things mentioned on previous posts. And that is to travel. I am fascinated when I travel to faraway places and get to be separated from my comfort zone, a zone which right now is becoming more and more uncomfortable by the second. However, for people born in Colombia, the effort it takes from A to B when it comes to traveling to different countries is extreme.
To the rest of the world, we Colombians are a menace, because of the drug trafficking problem and our overall general "drug dealer bad rep" . They give us evil eyes when we are at airports, they take extra time to check out our hand luggage, and they pull us out of lines, to take us to separate rooms to "investigate further" our travel documents. They force us to get Visas, documents that can easily take months to obtain, where they ask you everything, (from how much money you earn to detailed itineraries of the countries you will visit) and if you are going to travel to many countries, the time and money you must invest in getting these documents can cost almost as much as the airfare taking you to those places. In a nutshell, they make it fucking hard for us Colombians to get to know the world.
I remember when a friend from school and I went to visit a very good friend in Paraguay(a country that allows us inside without visa) in the summer of 2006. We were on a bus, crossing the border from Argentina, entering Paraguay. We are making the line just like everyone else, until 2 customs officials headed by a big officer come up to us. The officer looks at us from top to bottom, (Never in my life will I forget the tone in which he said it) and says: You guys are...Colombians?
My blood was boiling. I looked at him in the eye, straightened up, (to little or no avail, as my 162cm/5'3ft. frame was decimated by this dude's 180cm/6'4ft build), and I simply said: "Absolutely."
-"Follow us, please."
And so, they singled us out of the line, walked over to the bus we were traveling, took our bags out and strip searched them.
Apart from my friend and me, not a single other person's bag was checked. :-/ ......
I'm ashamed to say that Colombia is one of the countries that produces the most amount of drugs in the world. Cocaine, Pot, you name it.
There are less than 100'000 people involved in drug production and smuggling.
It's funny, how less than 100 thousand people can define the destiny of over 40 MILLION.
One of the few and quickest ways to travel freely without visas and restrictions, is to get another nationality. :-/.............
There are countries, (oh sweet irony) Colombia included, in which you, having an European or American passport, can stay 3 months without the government asking you where will you stay or how are you gonna fund your stay.
3 months = Perfect time to get to know the country as a backpacker and leave to get to know another place.
So....
Any foreigner interested in a 3 year marriage?
I promise the sex will be great.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Perry's Everyday Life Post 1
Well HSers, it is 10:25 am here in San Antonio, TX and I must say... it's looking like it's gonna be a pretty damn dull day. It's an overcast day out there with no sun showing at all. Regardless, my mum, sister and I are going to watch 2012 today even though the reviews have been that it is '1 hour of crap, 2 hours of beautiful explosions.' I guess I can put up with 1 hour of crap for 2 hours of beautiful explosions, just like any other normal man on the planet.
It is Sunday, overcast and dull, but there is one thing to look forward to HS! Yes, that's right... We're getting Gopher and Jason Voorhees back in the near future. Or, in the least, we think we are.. It's definitely not confirmed yet, but I might just have to change my name to 'Moistened Lingerie' or something if it actually happens... I mean, my promise in the moderator board was that I would have sex with a hooker with AIDS. Now, I really don't want to have sex with Lady Gaga if I can help it, but if we do get them back I might just have to do it.
Now, another exciting thing about today, in collaboration with Aurey_Trillian, I have finally finished the Bakemonogatari Fan signature banners, if you want one, feel free to hit me or Aurey up. Oh and Photoshop CS4 was recently obtained by me, expect beautiful artwork from here on.
In further news, I'll be up until 6 am tomorrow morning, feel free to say hi on msn messenger: mtperry1@hotmail.com or post, post and post.
Well HS, that's all that really mattered to me this terribly looking overcast Sunday morning, check in for more news later this week when I review my first episode of Toaru Kagaku no Railgun. Keep it real HS, and don't forget to stop in and post something. :gar
-Perry
It is Sunday, overcast and dull, but there is one thing to look forward to HS! Yes, that's right... We're getting Gopher and Jason Voorhees back in the near future. Or, in the least, we think we are.. It's definitely not confirmed yet, but I might just have to change my name to 'Moistened Lingerie' or something if it actually happens... I mean, my promise in the moderator board was that I would have sex with a hooker with AIDS. Now, I really don't want to have sex with Lady Gaga if I can help it, but if we do get them back I might just have to do it.
Now, another exciting thing about today, in collaboration with Aurey_Trillian, I have finally finished the Bakemonogatari Fan signature banners, if you want one, feel free to hit me or Aurey up. Oh and Photoshop CS4 was recently obtained by me, expect beautiful artwork from here on.
In further news, I'll be up until 6 am tomorrow morning, feel free to say hi on msn messenger: mtperry1@hotmail.com or post, post and post.
Well HS, that's all that really mattered to me this terribly looking overcast Sunday morning, check in for more news later this week when I review my first episode of Toaru Kagaku no Railgun. Keep it real HS, and don't forget to stop in and post something. :gar
-Perry
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