Day 98: My Big Break?

So I have an announcement to make!

You better sit down - this is pretty big news!

Guess what???

I'M GONNA BE ON TV!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:-)

I am thrilled to announce that I will be competing on a Korean quiz show on national television where I will have the chance to win a fabulous trip!!! WOW!!!! Its a Jeopardy-style quiz show called The Contenders and is a very popular TV show here in Korea on Arirang (the network that owns and airs the show.) Yes, it's in English, and how it works is that you compete together on the show in PAIRS against the defending champion, and with each level you advance to, you win a bigger trip!!

Andrea is my partner, and tonight we went for our pre-interview down at the TV station in SE Seoul. When we got the Arirang TV Tower we had to sign several consent forms, and then answer several questions about our team (ie: hobbies, favourite subjects, nationality, why you're here in Korea, etc.) There were three other pairs of people who will also be competing on the show at some point. We all had to choose team names, and so Andrea & I will be known as 'Posh & Bex'! There is a bit of a long story, involving an inside joke between Andrea and I, as to why we chose this for our team name, but basically our team is named after the super-celebrity couple of the millennium - David Beckham and his wife Victoria 'Posh Spice.' 'Posh & Becks' is how the Brits affectionately call the couple, but due to limited letters allowed, we had to shrink it down to 'Posh/Bex'. We all then had to fill our a short quiz to find out exactly how smart each team is - this will help the show producers in matching up appropriate teams. The quiz was actually harder than I thought it would be, but overall I think I did alright, as did Andrea.

Andrea and I constantly joke about becoming famous in Korea, and we hope that this show will be our 'big break' into Korean superstardom! Who knows? Fastforward a month or so from now and Andrea and I could be the 'Posh & Becks' of Korea! Press conferences, photo shoots, autograph sessions, magazine cover shots, TV interviews, award ceremony presentations, tours across Asia, product endorsements, offers for careers in film and music - all these could soon be within our reach! I can taste the fame already!!!

In all honesty most of this is just a joke to us. We just think it would be cool to be on TV, and hey you never know, we might actually do well on the show and win a trip! (Trips include destinations such as Jeju Island, China, Japan, Thailand, Hawaii, USA, and Europe!) We don't actually expect to go all that far, nor become famous, but it's a lot of fun in the meantime to imagine these crazy scenarios, and I think it will be a blast to be on the show! We're supposed to know in the next week or two when we're gonna be on - hopefully sooner rather than later!!!

So everyone, gather up your pom-poms and get ready to cheer on Andrea & Scotty (aka: Posh & Bex!) as they compete for fame and fortune on THE CONTENDERS!!! WOOHOO!!! :-)