Things I have learned in my first week as a model shop assistant at LEGOLAND, CA:

• Turn signals are a foreign concept in California.
• So is going the speed limit. It's either five under or at least ten over. WHY IS THIS.
• The average teenage lifeguard at a LEGOLAND orientation training is very confused by the concept of an adult liking LEGO and will ask if they need to call security if they see an adult without children walking around.
• Also being one of five people out of the 75 at training who are older than 17-19 will be weird.
• When you are asked which high school you go to and you respond "...I graduated high school seven years ago?" you will break their teenage minds.
• The training book has "Weeks and weeks of fun!" as the subtitle, and they mean it.
• You will spend fifteen minutes staring at the sculpture you replicated trying to find the one plate that you forgot to add and it will be AWFUL.
• If you accidentally forget your coworker's name during pizza and beer night, he will show up the next day with a gigantic name tag.
• There are daily Super Smash Bros. games during lunch and sometimes all day tournaments on the weekends, and your boss is super into them.
• The corners of LEGO bricks will cut the daylights out of your hands if you are not paying attention while prying something apart without a brick separator.
• POWER TOOLS.
• Throwing your glued and unglued creations to test durability during training is common. Sometime either at the end of this week or early next week I get to throw a glued sphere I made off the roof and see how it holds up.
• LEGOLAND is still awesome 11 years later.
• The Tahu statue isn't red and orange, he's now red and yellow???
• The model shop is stuffed full of crazy cool sculptures and it's super AWESOME because you're just constantly surrounded by super amazing creations.

...and a lot of other things that I'm not sure I'm allowed to talk about yet, but I will if/when I can.

Yeah!!!