I love narii~
Ahh! Today was awesome. Kind of a hectic and clumsy day for me, considering I tripped up the stairs twice! Once coming back from the audition in the subway station and once going up the stairs from Hamilton. ><; Omg. like...klutz. Anyway. So the audition was worse and better than I expected all at the same time. I thought it would be like 600 people, but there were like a little less than 200, which was still alot, since they were all like...Korean. Except for me, a black girl and another white girl. Haha, talk about multiculturalism.
So, it all began when I took the train to Penn Station to meet Nari in the Borders, but we ended up meeting the Penn because we needed to take the 1 train to get to the 7 to go to Flushing. We were only on the 1 train for one stop and then we headed on the 7, all the way to Flushing. It was a nice ride because as you get out of Manhattan, the train comes above ground. So it was nice and scenic...(with factories.) xD So we got to Flushing and really had no idea of where we were going. We were expecting to be able to find a taxi, but there are no taxi's in Flushing apparently. ><; Flushing isn't Manhattan!! I really liked it though, everything was Korean there. Every other restaurant was Korean and there were many Korean people and it was fun! But, the place was like...7 QUEENS blocks away from the subway station. Now, Queens blocks are like the blocks in Maplewood or something, maybe those are even shorter than the ones Nari and I had to walk. But it basically took us 20 minutes to get to the KoreaCenter. It was very nice, like a mall. The auditions were being held downstairs so we had to walk down the stairs and as soon as we did there were just a TON of Korean girls and boys (I'd say it was pretty even....the boys were all GORGEOUS by the way, I was like omg.. <3 waahh!) but at the same time, it was very intimidating. Even though the staff members could speak English and everything, alot of what they were conducting was in Korean, so I was like 'Huh?....Nari...what are they saying?' But yeah. So, it was a disorganized mess pretty much. First we wanted to ask a staff member where we should go and where I should hand in my application and the lady looked at me and she was confused thinking it was only an audition for Asians. I mean, primarily, yes, they would be the target, but the application was in Korean AND in English and there wasn't any rule, so she couldn't object. I felt a bit funny after that, but its ok. She told us to walk into the hot stinky room where they would collect applications and give out numbers. Well, we had to push to get a number and my number ended up being 123. ><; Which wasn't realy fair because I sent in my application online and people who sent in their applications early should've been able to audition first. We pointed this out to the same lady we asked before and she was under the impression they were doing it that way, but they weren't~~ so then we told her about how we had to leave to catch the train and guess what? She let me slip in front of number 18. =D I got to audition before a ton of people~ <3 Haha. If it weren't for Nari and her utterly awesome Korean skills and pushy ness, I would've given up and not auditioned. But I auditioned and I was comfortable. JYP wasn't there himself (;__;) but there was a guy there and two camera people. Unfortunately they would've let me got to the pretty part of the song that goes up to the higher notes, but I did get to the belty part, which I guess was fine. *sigh* So, I did it. They gave me less than a minute though. More like 30 seconds. So I guess we will see what happens. I'm not overly confident or anything. I'm sure there were plenty of talented dancers, models and gosh were alot of the girls gorgeous. But like I said, we'll see. Even if I don't get this, I'm going to keep trying. =)
So, it all began when I took the train to Penn Station to meet Nari in the Borders, but we ended up meeting the Penn because we needed to take the 1 train to get to the 7 to go to Flushing. We were only on the 1 train for one stop and then we headed on the 7, all the way to Flushing. It was a nice ride because as you get out of Manhattan, the train comes above ground. So it was nice and scenic...(with factories.) xD So we got to Flushing and really had no idea of where we were going. We were expecting to be able to find a taxi, but there are no taxi's in Flushing apparently. ><; Flushing isn't Manhattan!! I really liked it though, everything was Korean there. Every other restaurant was Korean and there were many Korean people and it was fun! But, the place was like...7 QUEENS blocks away from the subway station. Now, Queens blocks are like the blocks in Maplewood or something, maybe those are even shorter than the ones Nari and I had to walk. But it basically took us 20 minutes to get to the KoreaCenter. It was very nice, like a mall. The auditions were being held downstairs so we had to walk down the stairs and as soon as we did there were just a TON of Korean girls and boys (I'd say it was pretty even....the boys were all GORGEOUS by the way, I was like omg.. <3 waahh!) but at the same time, it was very intimidating. Even though the staff members could speak English and everything, alot of what they were conducting was in Korean, so I was like 'Huh?....Nari...what are they saying?' But yeah. So, it was a disorganized mess pretty much. First we wanted to ask a staff member where we should go and where I should hand in my application and the lady looked at me and she was confused thinking it was only an audition for Asians. I mean, primarily, yes, they would be the target, but the application was in Korean AND in English and there wasn't any rule, so she couldn't object. I felt a bit funny after that, but its ok. She told us to walk into the hot stinky room where they would collect applications and give out numbers. Well, we had to push to get a number and my number ended up being 123. ><; Which wasn't realy fair because I sent in my application online and people who sent in their applications early should've been able to audition first. We pointed this out to the same lady we asked before and she was under the impression they were doing it that way, but they weren't~~ so then we told her about how we had to leave to catch the train and guess what? She let me slip in front of number 18. =D I got to audition before a ton of people~ <3 Haha. If it weren't for Nari and her utterly awesome Korean skills and pushy ness, I would've given up and not auditioned. But I auditioned and I was comfortable. JYP wasn't there himself (;__;) but there was a guy there and two camera people. Unfortunately they would've let me got to the pretty part of the song that goes up to the higher notes, but I did get to the belty part, which I guess was fine. *sigh* So, I did it. They gave me less than a minute though. More like 30 seconds. So I guess we will see what happens. I'm not overly confident or anything. I'm sure there were plenty of talented dancers, models and gosh were alot of the girls gorgeous. But like I said, we'll see. Even if I don't get this, I'm going to keep trying. =)