Does Post-Disney Depression Get Easier?

First of all, Happy Thanksgiving! I had a wonderful time being home for five days :) Luckily while I was home I got to see Lindsey, my DCP roomie!! We had LOTS of reminiscing and that's what brought on this post for me :) In the (almost) year since I've been out of the program I'll kind of go over the ups and downs, and what I anticipate for the future. 

The first six months or so were the hardest. You have to go back to school, or home, or (in my case) New Zealand, and it's a hard adjustment! You're SO used to going to the parks when you're bored, eating whatever the heck you want (hello chicken nuggets!!) and not gaining weight because you walk and sweat so much, and being able to use your annual pass at Universal just because you're craving a Butterbeer. The hardest part for me, being in New Zealand, is that I was no longer surrounded by these wonderful and POSITIVE human beings that are genuinely thrilled to be working, and that I was in a tiny town with so little to do on the weekdays. It's SO easy in the DCP to get to the parks, or the resorts to check out the gingerbread houses, or Downtown Disney (sorry, Disney Springs) to get a Starbucks and window shop. You just go from this amazing semester of constantly doing fun things with happy people, to normal life with some happy people and many angry/sad/bored people. So the adjustment was incredibly hard, but I had a constant group message going with my roommates that always cheered me up :) 

It's easier now that I'm back in my normal schedule (in America) with my good friends, but I'll go through bouts of missing it a ton. Like right now. Lindsey basically said the same thing, it's now bearable, but we still miss it a lot some days! We're both planning on going back for spring 2017! It was so weird for me being back in Magic Kingdom with Sarah, it was like no time had changed, but it was SO weird because we had to try squish as much in as possible rather than just meandering around and enjoying our time! So strange. And so hard to leave. Also weird to see the other CPs at my old work location, but fun to see my old coworkers :) 

Pretty much the first year sucks being away, but you go from craving Disney everyday and kind of hating your life, to still missing Disney but being able to be content with your time away :) Of course everyone has a different experience, but Lindsey and I were pretty much the same. You go through these stages (ESPECIALLY AROUND APPLICATION SEASON OMG) when you're like hmmm....how can I do another program and still graduate on time...but then you realize you can't. And continue with Plan A of doing another program once you graduate :) Can you guys believe I'll probably be doing application blogs less than a year from now?! I REALLY hope it all works out like I want it to <3

Anyway, hopefully this offered a little insight into the year following your program. I miss it all the time, and especially miss blogging my awesome days, but am running out of blog ideas! It's like having a little piece of home to read :) My advice to ANYONE doing a program is to vlog/blog/take videos/document your whole life in pictures because it is SO fun to go back and read/watch/view them. Whenever I'm homesick for Disney I go back and read my old blog posts! It's so much fun to see what I was thinking throughout the program. The first and last few are particularly fun to read. 

Anyhoo, have an amazing week! I plan on going to go see the Good Dinosaur, and of course Star Wars once that comes out <33333333 Until next time, have a magical day :)