Hi, this is Ichi. My first post on the blog is coming a little late but that's part due to the fact that Dotty covered almost everything I know up to this point in her first post and that. . . I didn't know what E-mail address to use. Anyway, I've yet to actually hear back from Disney which is a little worrying as the final casting session for the season is on the 7th and who knows how long I'll have to wait to apply again. Still, I only applied 10 days ago so fingers crossed.

Basically right now I'm just going to have to try working on my french and looking up places I'd like to visit within the city, I always wanted to go to Paris so there were a few places I had in mind, (all very obvious and touristy though) The Eiffel Tower, The Louvre, Versailles (The hall of mirrors is stunning,) Notre-Dame, Champs-Elysees and so on.

I hope I can use this to keep track of some of the new places I find that I'm interested in visiting as well as posting up any useful resources I can find.

And now because I'm basically out of ideas, here's a random racist french doodle I just happen to have from a few months back.

Side note just pointed out my bad grammar to dotty, an english university student, her reply? "It's ok no one actually cares about that."

And on that note, Au revoir.

Bonjour!

I'd like to start this blog off by pointing out that the title is not exactly accurate. You see we're not really in Paris at the moment. Don't leave just yet though. We will get to Paris eventually! It's just going to take some time, a few french lessons and probably a lot of stress-induced posts about how bad an idea this is.

My name is Claire but you can call me Dotty, everyone does. Well they don't really but I'd like them to. This blog will be written by myself and my boyfriend/best friend/life partner Damian, nickname Ichi (He's a manga/japanese geek)

So let's get started and what a perfect day to do so because I got an email today telling me that I have received an interview for Disneyland Paris!!

But we'll get to that in a short while. First I want to talk about the actual application to Disney.

It seems like so long ago but in fact it was only around 2 months ago when Damian and I first started researching how to live and work in Paris for 3 months and to be perfectly honest we didn't find much.

We decided Disney was our best bet because neither of us have a great knowlege of french and this would be a good way to learn the language and work at the same time. We found the Disney Casting Website and I filled out my application first. It was just a general application for a recruitment session in London meaning I could get any job such as waitress/hostess in one of the hotels, ODF(which stands for Outdoor Food basically selling popcorn,drinks, ice cream etc), Shop Worker or Waitress in food place. These are the ones I know of so far but there are probably a lot more I could get.

Apparently there are 3 places of accomodation for international crew members: La Louisiane, Le Pleiades and La Boiserie. The Accomodation is roughly 270 euros a month and you get paid roughly 750 a month after taxes and accomodation come off your wages. Or so I've heard. Your travel expenses for getting to Paris get reimbursed to a certain extent so that's pretty good.

All in all I'm very excited and if I save up now and make money while working there I should hopefully end up with some money left by the end of this aventure!

Damian and I would love to live in Paris when we finish college so for now summer vacations working in Paris are our best option to get adapated to the language and culture.

I'm sorry if this post seems rather rambly but I'm trying to fit in as much information as I can while I remember it and hopefully this will be useful for any fellow english speakers wishing to spend a summer in Disney.

So, as I said, I received an email today from the Disney Casting Office in London asking me to come for an interview. For anyone who is interested here is the actual email.

Description: Hello, Please find through the link an invitation for our last recruitment session on June 07th in London for the season.  

Thank you for your interest in employment with Disneyland Paris. 

We would like to invite you for an interview on Tuesday June 07th in LONDON at 10:00 AM UK time: Please see below: 


TUESDAY JUNE 07th - LONDON - 10AM (UK Time)

IL BOTACCIO
9 Grosvenor Place
London SW1X 7SH, United Kingdom
Metro: Hyde Park Corner

Please bring with you:
• the copy and original of your passport or identity card 
• Your resume
• this invitation. 

Please make sure you are present no later than 10AM (UK time) with the required documents.

We will start at 10AM with a presentation of Disneyland Paris and the different vacancies, then proceed with the interviews. 
Please make sure you are available most of the day (at least until 3 or 4 PM).

We regret not to be able to participate in your travel expenses for this appointment. 

Please note that at this point in time, most of our summer contracts have been filled and therefore we will mostly be recruiting for contracts later in the year (trainingships, Gap Years, Halloween, Christmas, Easter 2012 and summer 2012). Why not anticipate your plans for next year and be the first candidates to be recruited to celebrate our 20th anniversary in 2012!!

Please register yourself by June 06th 11.00 am (UK time) at the latest.

Best Regards.


So as you can see this is the last recruitment day for this season. Damian applied a week after me so hopefully he should hear back soon and we will both be going on the same day. It's in London and that's probably going to make a rather large dent in my pocket but it will be worth it if I get a job in Disney! 


I am going to stop here while I am ahead but before I go here are a few links where I did find useful information about working in Disney:


- http://jaanahomeandaway.blogspot.com/search/label/DLRP
- http://cupidjazmine.blogspot.com/search/label/Paris%2FDisneyland
- http://www.cgarena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=363
-http://disneylandparis-casting.com/en/faq

Hope this helps =)

Au Revoir et Bonne Nuit.
Dotty
xx