Santa's Snacks in Amusement Parks

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Like I mentioned before, our small stand is located in the thrilling amusement park, Holiday World and Splashin’ Safari. As an employee working in the foods department I, like everyone else, considers the water parka and the dry park as two separate worlds. Both parks have food stands with jobs that are similar but seem different in an environmental way. The main reason of this is that Holiday World has different holiday themed section while the water park has just one main theme of a safari. Lucky for me, I was put in one of the simplest stands in my opinion three years ago when I applied for the job.
It does not take a genius to figure out that a stand named Santa’s Snacks would be in the Christmas section of Holiday World. Of all the sections in the dry park, this section seemed to most unique because the aspects of the location of the stand were either completely positive or negative. The reason behind this is because the stand’s location sits at the top of the hill while the Human resources building is all the way across the dry park at the bottom. Even though it was an extensive trip to the stand every night and day, it did have one advantage that was also a disadvantage. Santa’s Snacks was located a few feet away from the entrance of the park so guests did not spend the majority of their day around it. This does however, backfire at night when they leave and pick up a last minute snack on the way home. Aside from all the negative features of the location I began to grow onto it as the first year of work went by.
I was sixteen years old when I decided to get a job in the foods department at Holiday World. It was best for me to acquire a job so the entire summer would not be me just sitting around the house. ...

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...l. Other than that both Tim and Josh said that positive relations in the stand are extremely high. Luckily, after every negative event that takes place in the stand, everything always turns out to be fine. I am unable to recall an event that went wrong and stayed for a long period of time.
Whether anyone has a small argument or gets angry at another member, the bad energy from that event almost disappears in thin air with time. When the season ended this year, I never realized how much our crew related to an actual family. We have amazing days and we have disappointing days, but in the end everything turns out to be just fine. With the season over, working my hardest in that little stand by the entrance to the park makes me feel like I almost lost a part of my family. Sadly, there is a decent change that I will never see some of them face to face ever again.

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