First we will start up with the 2 days pre-Argentina. That takes us to Thursday March 22. Just a nice evening in the home of my Auntie Donna in Edmonton, making some tea.. usual evening activities. I am in the kitchen with my auntie while my mom is in a different room, where my phone happens to be. I hear her talking to someone on the phone and don't really think much of it until she says "Courtney". I go into the room she is in and she says "That was Pat" (Pat is my agent in Calgary). "She wants to know if you can go to Argentina tomorrow". Not quite what I was expecting from that!! Obviously my answer was yes! So I called my agent back, getting the few details she had and then hung up. She told me I was an option for a Sunsilk shampoo commercial in Buenos Aires, Argentina and they would need to fly me out ASAP if I was confirmed (this being around maybe 9pm). Freaking out, but keeping my cool at the same time, because i have been options for direct bookings many times, but have never actually booked any of them. I was to wait for a call from Pat and then go from there.. the only issue here being that me and my mom were getting up at 6am to drive to Camrose to tour Augustana and then drive back to Edmonton to tour U of A. I put my phone on the loudest it could go and went to bed. Waking up in the morning hearing no news, we went on the tours, spent the whole day out and then returned back to my auntie and uncles. By the evening I still hadn't heard anything so we assumed it was a no go. That night I went and spent the night at Janna's, thinking oh no need to worry about this anymore! 2:30 am rolls around and my agent from Bangkok emails me, wanting me to fill out a form with measurements and things about myself... of course at 2:30am I am not really in a state to do that, so I leave it until the morning. 8am rolls around and I get a phone call from my agent in Bangkok saying it is urgent and this form needs to be filled out, so very groggily, I wake up, drive back to my aunties and get this thing filled out. Once it is complete she tells me 3 hours and we will know the results. Maybe about 30-45 minutes later, we are eating breakfast when I hear my phone vibrate. We were eating so I obviously don't go check, but when we finish I look at my phone and I have a message from my agent reading "you are confirmed for sunsilk". Thats it. No Yay, congrats woohoo or anything. So I look at it, my eyes go huge as ever and I don't even remember what I said, perhaps "oh my lord". This quickly gets the attention of my family and they say what?! and I reply, I booked it. From then on it was complete chaos in the house! Trying to get my ready to go, figuring out flights etc etc. One stressful day let me tell you! By the end of Saturday, in the evening, I finally get a flight schedule, (saturday me and my mom were supposed to drive back to GP, but obviously this would not occur). I would leave Edmonton Sunday morning at 8am, fly to Toronto so I could re-pack and get my passport and then straight to Buenos Aires! These couple of days were probably the most stressful/exciting I have ever had! and by probably I mean they definitely were the most stressful and exciting!
I get to the airport bright and early Sunday, check in and am very very shocked to see the clients for the job have booked me first class all the way from Edmonton to Buenos Aires! BEST DAY EVER. So I was treated quite lovely, with very roomy chairs, "champagne or orange juice?" and a very nice menu with a selection of delicious food (not the iffy kind I usually get when I fly in economy). I get to Toronto, re-pack, grab my passport and back to the airport I go. This time the plane was so huge!! My seat reclined all the way back to flat, so it was basically a bed to sleep. They gave me a normal sized pillow and a huge blanket! I also got a little bag with socks, an eye cover, lotion, lip balm, ear plugs, toothbrush and paste and mentos! WIN. The menus are the first class flights were nuts, to save space, words and reading, I'll just post pictures of them below! Ahh yes can't forget.. when I was in Toronto waiting for my flight, I had the option to go into the Maple Leaf Lounge, which I never have before because I never fly first class! So I went in, and you get free everything! Food, drinks (alcoholic and non alcoholic), wifi, showers if you need too! It was so sweet, but I felt slightly weird and out of place, as I was the youngest by atleast 15-20 years!
Once arriving in Buenos Aires, Pedro, from the production company was waiting with a sign that had my name on it. From there we went straight to the fitting and hair test! I basically just tried on 5000 outfits and they tested my hair to see how it would work with the light and how I would have to flip it etc. After that, day one in Argentina ended and I was taken back to my hotel.
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