sm audition experience!!
hahah i don't really mean for anyone to read this but i really don't want to forget! so i'm putting this here. it's very lengthy and rambly and detailed because i want to remember everything, so... here we go~
my friend amanda got to my house at around 7:45 am (i was still asleep ... i actually meant to wake up at like 7 but ended up deciding to sleep in a little later, and before i knew it, she was here LOL but at least i didn't look like a total disaster) and may & emily arrived about twenty minutes later. we left pretty much immediately and spent the whole car ride talking and warming up and singing and being nervous, and before i knew it, we were there... i actually wasn't expecting it at all haha the car just stopped and we got out before i realized what was happening, so i didn't even put my shoes on properly? i'm ridiculous lol
so we went into the hotel and emily's mom asked someone from the hotel where the auditions were and he pointed us in the right direction. meanwhile, we met a really nice girl who gave us a lot of information and we went downstairs (down several flights of stairs/escalators actually) and the whole time my heart was kind of in my throat ;A; even though i already knew that auditions wouldn't start for another three hours. i wasn't all that nervous, though, compared to how nervous i usually get, lol. and tlist was being so nice and supportive and can i just love you all okay
so we were there for a while just in the hall... not that long, though, because after a while someone came out and told us (the few of us who were there at 10 in the morning) to go back to the lobby and wait, which i was kind of grateful for because i had no reception and therefore no way to distract myself, so we went to the bathroom really quickly and went upstairs, and i got a mocha from the starbucks in the hotel and we walked for a while until we found a coffee bean & tea leaf, where my friends got drinks too (i think may said it was her fourth cup of green tea. dear god may how do you drink so much tea) and we walked back to the hotel. in there we went to something like a shopping mall kind of area and sat outside robek's juice for probably 20-30 mins and we tried warming up like usual like wae wae wae wae waeeeee, which was really funny... this guy walked by us (and he was very clearly foreign because i had almost no idea what he was saying) and he kept saying a lot of stuff and laughing and being like "i like hahahahahahahaahha" and giving us thumbs-ups
eventually we went back down to the corridor (we bumped into that girl again! i think that might've actually been the third time, because we may have seen her on the way back up; this time we found out that she came all the way from spain to la to audition, and we were all just kind of like "... wow." that is a very far way to come, haha... i hope she got in!) with the audition signs and stuff and there were a lot more people there but they asked us to go back up again after around ten minutes, so we went up a flight and sat there and tried to warm up some more... by this point i was starting to feel really nervous and i was kind of like "oh god i'm going to die"
and i was still really worried that i'd forget the melody to my song or the lyrics because it was chinese and the lyrics were half words i don't even know.. and also there's a part that's way too high for me, so i have to switch to falsetto and my voice cracks a lot :c so i was worried about that, too.
anyway, we went down to the corridor again, and this time there were MANY more people there. they all looked really, really talented ;A; there were two guys who are a lot older than us (probably late teens/early twenties? idk) dancing and they were really good. one of them (who reminds us of lay because he dresses a lot like him sort of) danced to history! and something else, but the music wasn't all that loud, so i couldn't hear haha... but he was really good. really really good.
and eventually, they had us get in line to go into the room, where we waited for about twenty minutes. there was a girl a few people behind us who was really good (as in REALLY good, okay, i mean her voice was like studio-quality. it might've just been the echo-ey-ness of the hallway, but she sounded amazing.) and there were people dancing and practicing all around us, and they were all really good as far as i could see. which was really, really intimidating.
the guy behind us was talking to emily, and he came last year too, apparently. he was really nice! he dances. i really wanted to see him dance, but we lost track of him after getting out of the line. so.
i practiced and warmed up in line (again) because when i wasn't, i felt so horribly nervous that i kind of wanted to die... it was kind of odd lol my voice kept cracking, so i was really worried for the actual audition and i started kind of freaking out when they started letting people in.
it wasn't actually the waiting room like i'd expected, but instead it was a huge room where we filed in and took a slip of paper from a woman behind a table stacked with them, and we had to fill them out with basic info, like name/nationality/ethnicity/age/height/weight... etc. and then sign them. then, we lined up at a different table and handed the guy there (there were two separate lines; may and i went in one, and emily and amanda went in the other) the slips, and we were each given a number, which they also wrote on the slips of paper. which i'm assuming they gave to the judges later, because i'm pretty sure they sorted the slips into piles of who's making it and who isn't.
there were posters everywhere!! in the waiting room, too. haha i went up to the sfs poster there and was like "hey, kyuhyun, wish me luck" lolol i'm silly.
after we got our numbers, we headed into the door right by the table, which led to the waiting room, where there were many many chairs and a large empty space in the back, and at the front there was a small podium with a girl behind it who was making announcements and whatnot, and in the right-hand corner, there was a big screen where they were playing mvs. i got a boy was playing when we went in. we sang along to almost all of the songs that played, which were mostly the really recent songs/the two sm the ballad mvs... it helped a lot with the nervousness, lol
we were there for an hour or two. and the whole time i was really, incredibly nervous D: they told us there was water in the back (it was really good and it helped my throat a lot actually haha i forgot to bring water, so that might've been why my voice was cracking so much) so we got up and got that. only i did, actually. but whatever.
the girl at the podium went over the procedures for each type of audition. a little over half the people in the room (which wasn't full at all, surprisingly; but i'm sure most people showed up later on. we had an early time.) were there for singing, and the other half were all dancers, actors, or models. she repeated herself a lot, probably because some people never listen, and she said things like "make sure to look directly into the camera. i know you might be tempted to look at the judges, or your feet, or into space, but you have to look straight at the camera. or the cameraman will be really angry" or "girls, make sure you keep your hair back so it doesn't cover your number tag! it's your identifier" or "stay behind the blue line!"
after a really long time, they sent the first group in. my number was L66A, may's was L65A, amanda's was L1B, and emily's was L2B. they sent in L 1-30 A (or maybe it was 29?) first, and then they gave the rest of us some time to practice in the space in the back. i warmed up and sang and, thankfully, was able to remember all of my lyrics, and we all just started singing while amanda stretched and started dancing. i think. we were blocking people from the water fountain, lol. i'm really sorry if we ended up blocking you, haha. there was a little girl who was supposed to be there with her mom, and she couldn't have been older than maybe 8-10, she was so little ;; but they dont let you in the waiting room if you're not auditioning, so she had to go all by herself, and i saw her dancing all alone. i really wanted to go talk to her, but she was so focused that i don't know if she would've appreciated it. but i was kind of sorry for her, because it's really not nice to go through that alone. it's always nice to have people who feel just like you do there with you to hold your hand.
it wasn't long before they had us all go back to our seats again (actually, we took the empty seats, because apparently the people who'd already auditioned weren't coming back) and it was kind of quiet, but i kept warming up and singing along to the songs playing.
oh! about the mvs! it was really funny...
most people weren't singing along, as far as i knew, but when mama (by exo) came on, i think about half or maybe probably definitely more of the girls screamed. and then after the still-non-understandable intro was over and exo entered, they all screamed again. a couple of people screamed during random parts of sfs, too, and also a lot screamed when leeteuk came on! everyone misses their leader, ahha.
anyway. the girl went over the procedures again, and this time she asked a few times if anyone needed another language. there was one girl who didn't really understand english well, so the girl at the podium was alternating between korean and english. she can speak six languages, apparently. she was speaking spanish to another girl at one point, and she can also speak (in addition to fluent korean and english) chinese (her accent was so cute, seriously), japanese, and something else i couldn't make out. i was really surprised.
then, they called the next group. we thought they'd go from A to B so we figured may and i would be in the third group that went, but instead, they were like, "we're switching it up! next is B 1-30!" and because amanda and emily were B 1 & 2, they both had to go. may and i were so nervous for them, lol. the auditions ended up going pretty quickly, actually, and A 31-60 was gone before we knew it. B 31-60 went next, and A 61-90 was called almost immediately after. and that was us. so we got into line in reverse order of numbers, and we filed through some big doors into another hallway.
at this point i was so nervous that i though my heart was going to jump out of my throat or something and we waited at the end of a hall (there was a door nearby, next to which there was a sign that said Audition Room A) in silence. the whole time i was going over my lyrics and the melody sort of in my head and we could hear the people from inside the room singing. there were some people who weren't really very good, and a couple of people from my group laughed. i thought it was kind of rude.
we were sent into the room much, much too fast, and there were still ten people up against a huge smtown poster on the wall on the right (and opposite) side of the room, and we were sat down in two rows of chairs by the door. it was a long room, so we were pretty far. the first girl i heard singing was really, really good. i'm not sure if she's the girl i heard singing in line, but her voice sounded studio-quality, too. but the room was also very echoey, so everyone sounded much better than they actually were, i think. one of the girls in that group forgot her lyrics and stopped and cleared her throat and said "sorry. excuse me" and i felt really bad for her because that's exactly what i'd been worried about happening to myself. and things like that have happened to me before, and it's really horrible. D:
the dancers went at the end (before that, when it got to their turn, they just said "i'm dancing"/some variation of that and the judge moved on) and the ones in this group were really, really good. it wasn't music i recognized, but it was fast and they danced so well omg i stopped trying to sing my lyrics in my head and i just stared. i think my jaw dropped, a little. one of the guys was one of the two guys we saw earlier, and he did something really cool, although i can't remember what it is now. something where he started laying on the ground and he sprang back up to standing position. (also, back in line for our numbers, we spoke to the girls who were with them! and they spoke to the girls from a few spots up, and they seemed really nice. apparently the guy who danced to history--not the guy i saw--made it to second round pledis auditions. wow.)
and once they were all done, the judges said thank you, you can leave now, and had the first ten numbers from our group (including me and may) go line up against the wall. i was so nervous that i was physically shaking, so i clasped my hands together in front of me kind of awkwardly to keep myself still and stayed like that the whole time.
the guy a few people before me sang fantastic baby, lol. his korean was actually not half bad. and his voice was really strong, according to may (idk i was hardly paying attention because i was so scared haha), and he had good vibrato or something, but he was really really off key. he did daesung's part, and got to "dance! woohoo" before they cut him off. i think most of our group was trying not to laugh.
may was the number under me, so she went right before me. she sang the chorus of "tonghua" by guang liang, and she was good~ especially considering the circumstances, lol. she sang a little more quietly than usual, though, i noticed.
and they said next and my brain kind of died, but i still managed to start after half a second, and once i was singing, the nervousness all sort of evaporated. and looking into the camera wasn't as hard as i'd expected, since it was just a camcorder on a tripod. i think. i dunno. but i sang the chorus of "ai bu dan xing" by show luo, and even though at home i tripped up a lot on the lyrics, i actually didn't make any mistakes. and miraculously, i managed to sing it in a key that i could actually manage--not too high, not too low. i got past the first half of the chorus, and finished the first line of the second (the second half has almost the same melody, so i was expecting them to have me stop around then) when they cut me off. and the lady at the audition table who was the nice one, i think, since the Bs were at the other end of the hall with the mean/annoyed-looking one if i'm not mistaken, and sometime before the first line of the second half of the chorus, i think she sort of cocked her head to one side and smiled a little. i think that's a good sign? xD who knows. afterwards, i was shaking a lot, lol.
a couple of people messed up a little, but it wasn't all that eventful. some more people came in while i was singing, and after i finished and the person next to me was either done or about to start, they laughed really loudly and were talking, and either the girl behind the camera or the judge was like "can you guys quiet down?" and she sounded annoyed. so i don't think they left a very good impression, ahhaha... it was rude of them to do that while people were auditioning, though. seriously. have some manners!
the dancers in our group were gooood. two of them were, at least. i heard the third was a ballet dancer, and the song they played was more... electronica-ish? and fast. so i think she was kind of at a loss for what to do. :c
the judge had a bowl of mini-airheads in front of her. and i really wanted them. just a note lol
we were sent out immediately after the dancers danced, and then we walked down the hall to where people were still waiting in line to get in and where emily and amanda were sitting with my dad and emily's mom. they gave us chocopies :D and i was still kind of shaking.
according to them, their judge asked one girl how old she was, and told another that her korean pronunciation was really good. i'm assuming she wasn't korean, lol. and at the end, the judge pushed two of the slips of paper with the info on it forwards, and moved all of the others into a pile on the side. and the one on the side was probably all the rejects ;-; we can only hope that we'll all get in, i think.
afterwards, we went to this place in koreatown called soowon galbi. it's really, really good. i was still a nervous bundle of energy, but i had no appetite left after the audition, so i didn't end up eating much. i'm not sure how we were able to finish all of the food we ordered, actually. but we were all full afterwards, so it all worked out! and then we walked around and bought boba and then went home, and we were singing along to kpop all the way back, too. except it was more fun, because we were calmer lol
but anyway it was a really great day and a really great experience, and i'm definitely going again next year if i can \o/ i really enjoyed it! even if i don't get in, it won't matter... getting ready for it and getting through with this in itself has helped me with my confidence a lot, apparently, and despite all of the nervousness involved, it was really fun. and it was great to be surrounded by other fans just like me, who all loved the same groups that i do. :D seriously, it was probably the most nerve-wracking (but fun) experience i've had, and i can honestly say that it's helped me. a lot.
idk if anyone read this but if you did kudos to you for getting through the probably massive blocks of text and my insane all-over-the-place rambling and my teenage girl talk lol
this is kind of the reason i haven't actually finished anything lately lol but i will hopefully be done with a yewook fic/drabble/something soon! or maybe not. i have a lot of homework to catch up on lol
my friend amanda got to my house at around 7:45 am (i was still asleep ... i actually meant to wake up at like 7 but ended up deciding to sleep in a little later, and before i knew it, she was here LOL but at least i didn't look like a total disaster) and may & emily arrived about twenty minutes later. we left pretty much immediately and spent the whole car ride talking and warming up and singing and being nervous, and before i knew it, we were there... i actually wasn't expecting it at all haha the car just stopped and we got out before i realized what was happening, so i didn't even put my shoes on properly? i'm ridiculous lol
so we went into the hotel and emily's mom asked someone from the hotel where the auditions were and he pointed us in the right direction. meanwhile, we met a really nice girl who gave us a lot of information and we went downstairs (down several flights of stairs/escalators actually) and the whole time my heart was kind of in my throat ;A; even though i already knew that auditions wouldn't start for another three hours. i wasn't all that nervous, though, compared to how nervous i usually get, lol. and tlist was being so nice and supportive and can i just love you all okay
so we were there for a while just in the hall... not that long, though, because after a while someone came out and told us (the few of us who were there at 10 in the morning) to go back to the lobby and wait, which i was kind of grateful for because i had no reception and therefore no way to distract myself, so we went to the bathroom really quickly and went upstairs, and i got a mocha from the starbucks in the hotel and we walked for a while until we found a coffee bean & tea leaf, where my friends got drinks too (i think may said it was her fourth cup of green tea. dear god may how do you drink so much tea) and we walked back to the hotel. in there we went to something like a shopping mall kind of area and sat outside robek's juice for probably 20-30 mins and we tried warming up like usual like wae wae wae wae waeeeee, which was really funny... this guy walked by us (and he was very clearly foreign because i had almost no idea what he was saying) and he kept saying a lot of stuff and laughing and being like "i like hahahahahahahaahha" and giving us thumbs-ups
eventually we went back down to the corridor (we bumped into that girl again! i think that might've actually been the third time, because we may have seen her on the way back up; this time we found out that she came all the way from spain to la to audition, and we were all just kind of like "... wow." that is a very far way to come, haha... i hope she got in!) with the audition signs and stuff and there were a lot more people there but they asked us to go back up again after around ten minutes, so we went up a flight and sat there and tried to warm up some more... by this point i was starting to feel really nervous and i was kind of like "oh god i'm going to die"
and i was still really worried that i'd forget the melody to my song or the lyrics because it was chinese and the lyrics were half words i don't even know.. and also there's a part that's way too high for me, so i have to switch to falsetto and my voice cracks a lot :c so i was worried about that, too.
anyway, we went down to the corridor again, and this time there were MANY more people there. they all looked really, really talented ;A; there were two guys who are a lot older than us (probably late teens/early twenties? idk) dancing and they were really good. one of them (who reminds us of lay because he dresses a lot like him sort of) danced to history! and something else, but the music wasn't all that loud, so i couldn't hear haha... but he was really good. really really good.
and eventually, they had us get in line to go into the room, where we waited for about twenty minutes. there was a girl a few people behind us who was really good (as in REALLY good, okay, i mean her voice was like studio-quality. it might've just been the echo-ey-ness of the hallway, but she sounded amazing.) and there were people dancing and practicing all around us, and they were all really good as far as i could see. which was really, really intimidating.
the guy behind us was talking to emily, and he came last year too, apparently. he was really nice! he dances. i really wanted to see him dance, but we lost track of him after getting out of the line. so.
i practiced and warmed up in line (again) because when i wasn't, i felt so horribly nervous that i kind of wanted to die... it was kind of odd lol my voice kept cracking, so i was really worried for the actual audition and i started kind of freaking out when they started letting people in.
it wasn't actually the waiting room like i'd expected, but instead it was a huge room where we filed in and took a slip of paper from a woman behind a table stacked with them, and we had to fill them out with basic info, like name/nationality/ethnicity/age/height/weight... etc. and then sign them. then, we lined up at a different table and handed the guy there (there were two separate lines; may and i went in one, and emily and amanda went in the other) the slips, and we were each given a number, which they also wrote on the slips of paper. which i'm assuming they gave to the judges later, because i'm pretty sure they sorted the slips into piles of who's making it and who isn't.
there were posters everywhere!! in the waiting room, too. haha i went up to the sfs poster there and was like "hey, kyuhyun, wish me luck" lolol i'm silly.
after we got our numbers, we headed into the door right by the table, which led to the waiting room, where there were many many chairs and a large empty space in the back, and at the front there was a small podium with a girl behind it who was making announcements and whatnot, and in the right-hand corner, there was a big screen where they were playing mvs. i got a boy was playing when we went in. we sang along to almost all of the songs that played, which were mostly the really recent songs/the two sm the ballad mvs... it helped a lot with the nervousness, lol
we were there for an hour or two. and the whole time i was really, incredibly nervous D: they told us there was water in the back (it was really good and it helped my throat a lot actually haha i forgot to bring water, so that might've been why my voice was cracking so much) so we got up and got that. only i did, actually. but whatever.
the girl at the podium went over the procedures for each type of audition. a little over half the people in the room (which wasn't full at all, surprisingly; but i'm sure most people showed up later on. we had an early time.) were there for singing, and the other half were all dancers, actors, or models. she repeated herself a lot, probably because some people never listen, and she said things like "make sure to look directly into the camera. i know you might be tempted to look at the judges, or your feet, or into space, but you have to look straight at the camera. or the cameraman will be really angry" or "girls, make sure you keep your hair back so it doesn't cover your number tag! it's your identifier" or "stay behind the blue line!"
after a really long time, they sent the first group in. my number was L66A, may's was L65A, amanda's was L1B, and emily's was L2B. they sent in L 1-30 A (or maybe it was 29?) first, and then they gave the rest of us some time to practice in the space in the back. i warmed up and sang and, thankfully, was able to remember all of my lyrics, and we all just started singing while amanda stretched and started dancing. i think. we were blocking people from the water fountain, lol. i'm really sorry if we ended up blocking you, haha. there was a little girl who was supposed to be there with her mom, and she couldn't have been older than maybe 8-10, she was so little ;; but they dont let you in the waiting room if you're not auditioning, so she had to go all by herself, and i saw her dancing all alone. i really wanted to go talk to her, but she was so focused that i don't know if she would've appreciated it. but i was kind of sorry for her, because it's really not nice to go through that alone. it's always nice to have people who feel just like you do there with you to hold your hand.
it wasn't long before they had us all go back to our seats again (actually, we took the empty seats, because apparently the people who'd already auditioned weren't coming back) and it was kind of quiet, but i kept warming up and singing along to the songs playing.
oh! about the mvs! it was really funny...
most people weren't singing along, as far as i knew, but when mama (by exo) came on, i think about half or maybe probably definitely more of the girls screamed. and then after the still-non-understandable intro was over and exo entered, they all screamed again. a couple of people screamed during random parts of sfs, too, and also a lot screamed when leeteuk came on! everyone misses their leader, ahha.
anyway. the girl went over the procedures again, and this time she asked a few times if anyone needed another language. there was one girl who didn't really understand english well, so the girl at the podium was alternating between korean and english. she can speak six languages, apparently. she was speaking spanish to another girl at one point, and she can also speak (in addition to fluent korean and english) chinese (her accent was so cute, seriously), japanese, and something else i couldn't make out. i was really surprised.
then, they called the next group. we thought they'd go from A to B so we figured may and i would be in the third group that went, but instead, they were like, "we're switching it up! next is B 1-30!" and because amanda and emily were B 1 & 2, they both had to go. may and i were so nervous for them, lol. the auditions ended up going pretty quickly, actually, and A 31-60 was gone before we knew it. B 31-60 went next, and A 61-90 was called almost immediately after. and that was us. so we got into line in reverse order of numbers, and we filed through some big doors into another hallway.
at this point i was so nervous that i though my heart was going to jump out of my throat or something and we waited at the end of a hall (there was a door nearby, next to which there was a sign that said Audition Room A) in silence. the whole time i was going over my lyrics and the melody sort of in my head and we could hear the people from inside the room singing. there were some people who weren't really very good, and a couple of people from my group laughed. i thought it was kind of rude.
we were sent into the room much, much too fast, and there were still ten people up against a huge smtown poster on the wall on the right (and opposite) side of the room, and we were sat down in two rows of chairs by the door. it was a long room, so we were pretty far. the first girl i heard singing was really, really good. i'm not sure if she's the girl i heard singing in line, but her voice sounded studio-quality, too. but the room was also very echoey, so everyone sounded much better than they actually were, i think. one of the girls in that group forgot her lyrics and stopped and cleared her throat and said "sorry. excuse me" and i felt really bad for her because that's exactly what i'd been worried about happening to myself. and things like that have happened to me before, and it's really horrible. D:
the dancers went at the end (before that, when it got to their turn, they just said "i'm dancing"/some variation of that and the judge moved on) and the ones in this group were really, really good. it wasn't music i recognized, but it was fast and they danced so well omg i stopped trying to sing my lyrics in my head and i just stared. i think my jaw dropped, a little. one of the guys was one of the two guys we saw earlier, and he did something really cool, although i can't remember what it is now. something where he started laying on the ground and he sprang back up to standing position. (also, back in line for our numbers, we spoke to the girls who were with them! and they spoke to the girls from a few spots up, and they seemed really nice. apparently the guy who danced to history--not the guy i saw--made it to second round pledis auditions. wow.)
and once they were all done, the judges said thank you, you can leave now, and had the first ten numbers from our group (including me and may) go line up against the wall. i was so nervous that i was physically shaking, so i clasped my hands together in front of me kind of awkwardly to keep myself still and stayed like that the whole time.
the guy a few people before me sang fantastic baby, lol. his korean was actually not half bad. and his voice was really strong, according to may (idk i was hardly paying attention because i was so scared haha), and he had good vibrato or something, but he was really really off key. he did daesung's part, and got to "dance! woohoo" before they cut him off. i think most of our group was trying not to laugh.
may was the number under me, so she went right before me. she sang the chorus of "tonghua" by guang liang, and she was good~ especially considering the circumstances, lol. she sang a little more quietly than usual, though, i noticed.
and they said next and my brain kind of died, but i still managed to start after half a second, and once i was singing, the nervousness all sort of evaporated. and looking into the camera wasn't as hard as i'd expected, since it was just a camcorder on a tripod. i think. i dunno. but i sang the chorus of "ai bu dan xing" by show luo, and even though at home i tripped up a lot on the lyrics, i actually didn't make any mistakes. and miraculously, i managed to sing it in a key that i could actually manage--not too high, not too low. i got past the first half of the chorus, and finished the first line of the second (the second half has almost the same melody, so i was expecting them to have me stop around then) when they cut me off. and the lady at the audition table who was the nice one, i think, since the Bs were at the other end of the hall with the mean/annoyed-looking one if i'm not mistaken, and sometime before the first line of the second half of the chorus, i think she sort of cocked her head to one side and smiled a little. i think that's a good sign? xD who knows. afterwards, i was shaking a lot, lol.
a couple of people messed up a little, but it wasn't all that eventful. some more people came in while i was singing, and after i finished and the person next to me was either done or about to start, they laughed really loudly and were talking, and either the girl behind the camera or the judge was like "can you guys quiet down?" and she sounded annoyed. so i don't think they left a very good impression, ahhaha... it was rude of them to do that while people were auditioning, though. seriously. have some manners!
the dancers in our group were gooood. two of them were, at least. i heard the third was a ballet dancer, and the song they played was more... electronica-ish? and fast. so i think she was kind of at a loss for what to do. :c
the judge had a bowl of mini-airheads in front of her. and i really wanted them. just a note lol
we were sent out immediately after the dancers danced, and then we walked down the hall to where people were still waiting in line to get in and where emily and amanda were sitting with my dad and emily's mom. they gave us chocopies :D and i was still kind of shaking.
according to them, their judge asked one girl how old she was, and told another that her korean pronunciation was really good. i'm assuming she wasn't korean, lol. and at the end, the judge pushed two of the slips of paper with the info on it forwards, and moved all of the others into a pile on the side. and the one on the side was probably all the rejects ;-; we can only hope that we'll all get in, i think.
afterwards, we went to this place in koreatown called soowon galbi. it's really, really good. i was still a nervous bundle of energy, but i had no appetite left after the audition, so i didn't end up eating much. i'm not sure how we were able to finish all of the food we ordered, actually. but we were all full afterwards, so it all worked out! and then we walked around and bought boba and then went home, and we were singing along to kpop all the way back, too. except it was more fun, because we were calmer lol
but anyway it was a really great day and a really great experience, and i'm definitely going again next year if i can \o/ i really enjoyed it! even if i don't get in, it won't matter... getting ready for it and getting through with this in itself has helped me with my confidence a lot, apparently, and despite all of the nervousness involved, it was really fun. and it was great to be surrounded by other fans just like me, who all loved the same groups that i do. :D seriously, it was probably the most nerve-wracking (but fun) experience i've had, and i can honestly say that it's helped me. a lot.
idk if anyone read this but if you did kudos to you for getting through the probably massive blocks of text and my insane all-over-the-place rambling and my teenage girl talk lol
this is kind of the reason i haven't actually finished anything lately lol but i will hopefully be done with a yewook fic/drabble/something soon! or maybe not. i have a lot of homework to catch up on lol