Commercial?!

This is clearly one of the most random things that happened to my life yet. It all started when my Spanish teacher (First of all, it's a 'she' and she is 100% not bald.) and a girl friend (not a girlfriend, a girl-friend) told me that these people were filming a commercial and they urgently needed Asian people. Right. So I called, and I went for a short interview with another friend of mine.

Anyways, we somehow got chosen to act in the commercial. So we went to the filming, not even knowing what the commercial is about, what we are to do, and whether we are being paid.

So I became the son of this Chinese family while my friend became a typical Chinese merchant. Something about how China didn't go to the World Cup. Come on, we're both Korean! Wow, did we look hilarious with the costumes. Well, I looked okay, but my friend was TOTALLY HILARIOUS.

Haha. Notice the two buckets on the pole? Also, the stage where we were to film was so stereotypically Chinese-looking that we just couldn't stop laughing. They had lanturns in the air, vegetables in the streets, restaurants such as 'The Big Wong' and 'Young Chong Fish Balls', Chinese sofas and statues in the room, etc.

Here were the actors:
Chinese kid: Me
Chinese dad: Korean man (whom I didn't know)
Chinese mom: Vietnamese woman (what the?)
Chinese neighbor: My friend

Okay. What the ****?! None of us were Chinese. Yeah,of course. Because all Asians look the same with their funny eyes and the yellow skin. Just kidding. I don't want to be a racist against myself.

Me: You want us to be Chinese? What the?
Man: Yup, we couldn't find any Chinese except one.
Me: Oh come on! Well, okay. How much are you even paying us?
Man: A couple hundred dollars.
Me and friend: What's do we have to act?

Haha. Cool. Did I mention that the one person that was actually Chinese is the Chinese teacher in my school? Too bad he wasn't chosen as the actor. It would have been even hilarious-er. Whatever. All these people care about is that we look Chinese in their eyes, so no-problem.

Other than the fact that we filmed for eight and a half hours, it was all fun and cool. Now this is truly a once in a lifetime experience.

I'M GONNA BE ON TV!