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BECOMING A MODEL: PART 1
In the meantime, the agent is giving your mom an address for a room where you will be staying. Room is putting it mildly….the carpet is full of holes, the twin mattresses are on the floor and the paint is coming off the ceiling. The house is occupied by wandering ninety year old lady The next day she wanders into the bathroom while you are taking a shower (there’s no curtain) and won’t leave. Shortly thereafter your mom is calling the agency to tell them that it’s not going to work.

The next day you find yourself moving into a room in a different apartment in the Red Light District of Paris, right across the street from the Moulin Rouge. You still haven’t heard from the agency and the bills are piling up for rent, food and taxi fare. You have no idea how to use the subway, but your landlord tells you it’s a much cheaper way to travel. After three days of this, modeling doesn’t look so exciting and you wish you were back home with your friends.

The next day the agency contacts you and says to come in and meet with the other agents and then sends you around Paris to a few castings and a test with a photographer. You still know nothing about the subway so more taxi fares. Paris is a big city, and the street directions are very complicated; even though you take taxis, you get lost as soon as you exit them.

Part 2 coming soon...

