We put on our khaki pants and navy shirts and headed to work. (Thank you to my little brother Charlie for so graciously donating his navy Catholic school polos.) There were a lot of us at orientation, so we were split into two groups. My group was sent out onto the floor. We got a tour of Wal-Mart first. Oh, and for some background knowledge, our Wal-Mart is about five minutes from the hotel and just opened in October. Then we were divided into different areas of the store. At first I started out zoning cans, but then one of the managers came over to me and asked if I would rather do make-up.............YES!!!! :) Haha. I was ready to get away from the cans because I couldn't reach the top shelf so I was standing awkwardly on my tippy toes and then dodging the cans that I knocked over. I enjoyed organizing the make-up and nail polish. Haha, I knocked over a few baskets, but a really nice customer helped me re-stack them. In her sweet Southern accent she said, "Bless your heart, that looks exactly like something I would do."
After lunch, we went into a room to have the orientation talk and watch videos on how to properly clean up spills. I never knew how complicated spill clean up could be...haha. Linds and I sat by a really fun guy named Josh. We enjoyed his fun spirit because he kept breaking out into random top 40 hits.....but usually just repeated one chorus line from each song. We still danced and laughed. He really made our first day at Wal-Mart fun and memorable. When the name badges got passed around, the three of us decided to make new names for ourselves. Josh became Jake, I am Jade, and Linds took the name of Jenny. We asked permission first, and our orientator (that is probably not a word...oops) looked at us slightly confused, laughed, and said it was fine.
That evening, our room walked down the beach and then to Yum Yum's Ice Cream Shop. All five of us got yellow cake batter and cookie dough ice cream. The owner was very friendly and asked if she could take a picture of us to put up on the shop's wall.
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