personality:
Alisha is either a bright spunky person who talks fast and excitedly or she is a quiet person who will do nothing and talk very little. There is almost no inbetween. When she is happy everyone around her is happy. She is like a virus when she is like that. She can talk to anyone, she is very adaptable and she almost always has a cool head. 
When she isnt happy, she still can talk to anyone, but she wont want to. When she gets like that, she usually locks herself away from people for a few days and is good. 

Alisha is a bit forgetful. Its never important things like dates or birthdays that she will forget. Its little, odd things. Things like doing laundry, eating, tying her shoes. Small things. When its about her, she isnt very responisible. However when it has to do with her group she is very responsible. She would do anything to help them.

She loves to be able to play around and have fun. When the other members are happy and ok than she is happy and ok. She can get a bit protective about the other members. She is usually checking up on them and making sure they are alright. 

background:
Alisha grew up in a very American family. They did all they could to point out that they were not Korean, but American. Alisha was the only one who liked that she was Korean. She would celebrate Korean holidays by herself, and she tried to teach herself Korean. It didnt work out as well as she thought. One thing that she and her family agreed on was dancing. Her parents started her dancing from a young age, so that she would be able to get into college with it. 
She danced ballet for years, but once she got into her teens she started dancing more 'edgy' styles. She attended a dance school and she was informed that if she didnt stop she was going to be removed from the school. She didnt stop and was removed. Her parents all but disowned her. She lived in the house with them, but that was as far as things went between them. She still danced, but it was in an afterschool slub or sorts
She started attending a public high school and fell into the outsider crowd. It didnt take long for her to meet up with the exchange students though. She bonded with the Korean students and spent most of her time with them. When she was in 8th grade, she talked to the Principal and convinced her to let Alisha be an exchange student the spring semester of her freshman year. She got a scholarship via her dance group and left soon after Christmas, 2008. 
She was at the same school as her friends, so she adjusted quickly. Her host family was great with her(they ended up being her host family while she was a trainee too) and she did well in school too. Around her birthday, she and two of her friends decided they wanted to audition for an entertainment. Alisha was well talented enough dancing wise and she could sing too. The three of them went in together and all were accepted.
Because she was an underage foreigner, Alisha had to get her parents permission to be a trainee. She was posive they would say no, but they agreed with almost no hesitation. Not that it bother her much. She felt astranged from them for a long time. 
She trained and went to school for the next three years until she graduated from school then she spent her time training only. She still talked to her parents some times, but not often. She had a little brother, but never met him. She hasnt been home since the Christmas she left. Her host family was like her family now. 
After five years, she was ready to stop being a trainee. She had a job, but she felt like she wasnt doing anything with her life. She didnt want to stop being a trainee bacuse there was always the chance she would debut, but she wanted to start her life because she wasnt doing anything. 
Rumors started floting around that there was going to be a new girl group and Alisha decided she was going to stick it out until after this group debut. If she wasnt with them then she was going to be done. When her name was annouced, her host family was more excited than her parents. 
She called her parents to tell them, but they were too destracted with her brother to be excited for her. They just told her good job and that they would talk to her later.