Saturday, July 19

Today I went to the SM building to talk to my manager. It was a little weird being there. I mean, I had been in the past, but as a friend of SHINee, not as a trainee.

I was really unsure what I was going to be doing, but I was excited anyway.

When I met my manager, we sat down and a table and began our serious chat. I expected my training to be the same as any normal K-Pop star, but I was wrong.

 I'm not going to write down the whole conversation, but here's the gist. My "training" is going to be filmed! The people at SM have come up with an idea for a new variety show starting me!

I was... Well... Quite caught off guard by that.

The show is called "SHINee's American Dongseng" and the members of SHINee are my trainers!  I will be playing the part of their adopted little sister from the US. The five guys will be teaching me how to sing, dance, and act better, along with helping me perfect my Korean.

We're going to be filming practically all day Monday-Friday. Saturdays I will go to the SM building, sometimes by myself and sometimes with SHINee, to practice and learn choreography and stuff. We get Sundays off.

According to my manager, we will be filming for 6 weeks. I will have one member a week that i have one-on-one training with, starting with Onew and then moving down agewise, so Taemin will be last. But that's only 5 weeks. I don't know what the plan for the last week is.

Apparently, each weekday has a special schedule. On Mondays, the six of us will stay at the dorm (unless one of the members has a schedule). We'll play games and the guys will teach me Korean. They'll probably make me sing and dance a bit too.

On Tuesdays, the member who's with me for that week and I will go to the SM building and train hard all day, but also probably play more games and have to complete challenges. (You know how Korean Variety shows are)

Wednesdays the six of us will go out and have fun. (I expect more challenges and games of course) I guess we'll go to a different place every week?

I'll have my own training without the members on Thursdays, but it'll be filmed. And I think we might also have some guest appearances? I can't wait to see who that might be!

Finally, Fridays. On Fridays, the weekly member and I will go out and have fun. We'll see what that means...

Anyway, after my really long plane trip from Atlanta, and then Taemin's party, I am exhausted. I think I'm gonna lay low this week and try to prepare myself for filming.

We start on the 28th, so I have a while to get settled in and recover from my jet lag. Don't expect to hear much from me, I plan on sleeping a lot.

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Really short Chapter. I have a lot of work to do, but I'm just not sure how to take this story where I want it to go...