I got my driver’s license for California and my car. they were simple but they were special for me. I felt I accomplished my little missions.
Let’s talk about my school life! By this time I always walked to the station and took the train to get to the subway. It always took 1 hour to get my school. What was hard was that I had to walk about 30 minutes under strong harmful sunrays. I understood why Americans wore sunglasses and of course I got mine. My school zone became a freeway. I should have known what that really meant.. It took 45 minutes to get to school. But if there was traffic, it took..
2 hours
2hours.. I thought finally I ended my train life which lasted from Japan.. Then this happened! But I still liked driving. That was the only help. Anyway I had to continue school to stay in the US longer. I had no time to think I hated this or that.
Going to school wasn’t only meaningful for staying in the US but it also developed my English skills. Sometimes Americans couldn’t understand what I said.. I decided to complete all classes and graduate. Language school was kind of scary for me because if I wanted I could stay there for 4 years or longer. I didn’t need that stability. I thought stability would kill my possibilities. I kept studying English though my English didn’t seem like it was getting better for awhile…
September. Of course I tried something to get involved in the entertainment industry in the US. I found a Japanese reporter’s audition by chance. I had no experiences as a reporter but I just wanted to have my first audition in Hollywood. I went to the Japanese TV station to have an audition. The result was.. I failed.. I had no experiences and my Japanese was getting rusty.. I had another audition on another day. That was a dancer’s audition for a Japanese singer. I hadn’t danced for a few years. I couldn’t move my body well and failed this audition too. These were the Japanese auditions I had in Hollywood. I wasn’t ready to have these auditions though I wanted to start something in Hollywood. I also thought I could do dancing or modeling without a native American’s English accent.
How about becoming a model? I tried out for it. I was looking for chances as a model at the time. 2 or 3 months had past since I started my school, so some of my classmates had to go back to their country. We had a little farewell party for them. One of my best friends Ernest had to go home because the US denied his visa. I realized this country was severe. We promised to meet someday again. We were eating at a Thai restaurant. When we were leaving, someone talked to me and he said “why don’t you do modeling?” I couldn’t believe what he said because I was thinking about that those days. I said “I will think about it” and we left.
I went home and thought maybe it was good to have some experiences in the modeling industry. After a awhile , I called him and went to meet him. He said “How about going to the Asian’s model contest next year?” That was his plan. He used to be a model too. He was working in a local TV station at the time. After that I started going to his model lessons after school. I also started learning how to do modeling by watching some movies. After a few weeks , I had a chance to meet his models. They all were Thai and I heard they were famous in the Thai community. But I doubted if they wanted to do modeling in the American industry. After that we went home.
I rethought about modeling. I knew I didn’t come here to do modeling in the Asian community in America. If so, it was better to do modeling in Japan. About modeling, I watched some movies of the top models. But actually it was not really attractive to me.
It was ok to just see the industry but it smelled so much like advertisement. I called the guy and finished it. As I thought before, my life as a model became a really short one.
The model industry which I never got involved and the dance industry which I worked in for 3 years, they were not what I wanted at the time. I didn’t pursue my career as an actor at the time though my experiences at this time clarified my aim. They also made me and the past me in the dance industry separated.
I arrived at Hollywood. But I was still looking for the place which Hollywood existed...
To be continued...
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