I FOUND MY ROOMMATES!!! (And How You Can Find Yours)

I've been trying to think about what I can post about right now while waiting but am coming up short of ideas. So who knows, maybe the next blog post will be packing or something! BUT exciting news....I FOUND MY ROOMMATES! Lindsey and I put our roomie YouTube video on our DCP arrival Facebook page and one girl, Jessica, found us through that and had three girls she was already talking to! Our 6th roommate actually emailed me because she found my YouTube video and doesn't have a Facebook!! So we have 6 girls, all 21+, and all basically non-drinkers. We've already decided that we want an (almost) dry apartment with very minimal alcohol and absolutely no parties and coming home sloppy drunk (which is no problem for any of us haha).

So Lindsey and I are from Snohomish, Washington, Mariam is from Essex, Vermont, Jessica is from Georgetown, Indiana, Alyssa is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Alexa is from Naperville, Illinois! We are hoping for a 6 person, 3 bedroom in basically anything but Patterson :) All 6 of us are 10000% with food and may have already made dinner reservations for Ohana...oops. Lindsey and I are both attractions, Alexa is merchandise, Alyssa and Mariam are both QSFB, and Jessica is bell services dispatch/greeter!! So we are very excited, everyone is so down to earth and easy going!!

My advice regarding how to find your own roommates is as follows:

• Be honest about everything on your roommate survey - trust me, you'll appreciate this in the long run!
• If something is very important to you (such as no drinking/smoking, cleaning dishes, no boyfriends/girlfriends over, whatever) make sure you make that clear ahead of time.
• When you post your roommate survey, make it stand out!!! Basically every survey says this: "I'm clean, easy going, and want to adventure in the parks", so make yours different. Try making it a different format, making a video blog instead of written post, including a picture of yourself, etc. 
• Don't be afraid to be picky, and don't settle! If someone seems like an OKAY fit, you might want to reconsider whether or not they should room with you! Even though you're frantic trying to find roommates, you won't appreciate those decisions to settle when you get down to Disney!
• If you really want international roommates, you're more likely to get them by going random! A lot of internationals aren't on the Facebook page, so if you go random you have a better chance of having a more wordly apartment ;)
• Talk to them and get to know them before committing to be roommates.
• If you can't find roommates, it's not the end of the world. Some people have better luck going random then hand picking!! 
• Focus more on finding your room roommate than the entire apartment. As long as you get along with the person you're sharing a room with, you'll have a much easier time!
• It's okay if you're not all best friends, as long as you can live together, you'll have a great program. Your coworkers will likely become some of your closest friends and Disney fam.
• Finally, DON'T STRESS! I promise you'll only all be home at the same time MAYBE like 5 times the entire program. Luckily, you also have plenty of opportunities to avoid the apartment as well if it comes down to it.

That's what I got for you! If you can find roommates through Facebook or another source, great, but if not I promise it will be okay. There are plenty of people on Facebook choosing to go random because it's so much easier and after a while, everyone kind of blends together. Best of luck to everyone waiting to hear back!! Applications are closed, and all decisions will be made by November 18th. ALSO, class registration opens up on Wednesday, November 16th. I think I'm going to sign up for the marketing or HR seminar, leaning toward HR. I can NOT believe it's already November (it's still like 70 degrees here in Colorado?!) but that means....I'LL BE IN DISNEY IN 2.5 MONTHS!