The Story of Dylan James Pawlina
The author, Dylan James Pawlina, is a very brave and very loyal person. Born on December 29th, 1999, in beautiful Mission Viejo, California, Dylan started loving theme parks at a young age. Growing up 30 minutes from Disneyland and 2 hours from Universal Studios Hollywood and SeaWorld San Diego, Dylan’s passion was easily at his reach. He went almost every weekend with his parents and grandparents to fulfill his love and passion for Southern California’s finest theme parks.
Dylan Pawlina is a very studious person, attending Anneliese Schools, a prestigious private elementary school in both Laguna Beach and Laguna Canyon, California from 2005-2011. He has knowledge of French and Spanish and can speak conversational Japanese, German and American Sign Language.
He later moved with his family to Connecticut in 2011 to have a better secondary education. Attending Bedford Middle School in Westport, and Roger Ludlowe Middle School in Fairfield, Dylan continued and pursued to receive Honors every semester, and sing in the Roger Ludlowe Middle School’s choir from grade 7-8.
In 2014, Dylan graduated with honors from middle school to later attend Fairfield Ludlowe High School in Fairfield, Connecticut. At his alma mater, Dylan was very studious, and talented, performing in Ludlowe’s Concert Choir and in his senior year, Chamber Singers, an audition-based choir, directed by now Mrs. Lauren Pine. His love for theme parks came back to him when in March of 2018, he took a trip with the Ludlowe Music Department to Walt Disney World, a place he has never been to before, only going to Disneyland and Universal Studios Orlando and Hollywood prior.
Part of this blog contains work from his semester at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine, a rural college town 10 miles from the city of Bangor, Maine. He spent a semester working in the New Media program, and the work he completed for his design class is showcased in this blog. He later withdrew from the university for personal reasons in January of 2019.
Now residing in Celebration, Florida, Dylan is continuing his education in Criminology, studying at Valencia College’s West Campus in Orlando. He plans to transfer after getting his Associate in Arts Degree to the University of Central Florida, where he will graduate with a Bachelors Degree in Criminology.
Having Annual Passes to Universal Orlando, Walt Disney World, and now, Legoland Florida Resort, Dylan has fallen in love with the parks, even though in a new state, that he grew up with in California. He hopes to make this blog family-friendly, while simultaneously sharing photos and experiences from the parks as an adult vs when he was a child growing up in Southern California.
When he not at the theme parks or in school, Dylan loves bike riding, running, and being sociable. He loves Harry Potter and owns all the movies and books. He is a proud Hufflepuff, but likes Gryffindor and Ravenclaw houses as well. He loves all the Harry Potter houses, and his favorite character is Luna Lovegood. He also is a pin collector, owning pins from the stateside Disney and Universal parks.