My Wheel of Fortune story starts a year ago. Last January I filled out an online application to be on Wheel of Fortune. I had decided that 2012 was going to be the year I got on a game show!
Not even a week later I got an email inviting me to come audition for the show. Now the audition was in seattle and I was living about 2 hours away west of Olympia but I took the time off work and the hubby watched the kids and off I went.
The audition process was held in a conference room of a beautiful hotel on the water front in Seattle. We all took a seat and had to call out our names in a loud clear voice, finally a chance for my time as a high school cheerleader to come in handy! Then we took turns having our photos taken and playing pretend rounds of the game. We pretend spun the wheel and called out letters on a computer screen to try and solve the puzzle. Then they had us all take an apptitude test, this part was scary! Some of the questions were easy and some were really hard, it was the only part of the process that I was actually nervous about!
Then we took a break and they sent about half the room home, so long! After that we played some more pretend wheel of fortune and introduced ourselves just like we were on the show. I was super unprepared and felt like I stumbled over myself and if I had known it was coming i would have been WAY more prepared!
3 hours and about 50 pretend rounds of play later I had made it through the first two eliminations and into the finals! They told us that if we were selected as potential candidates we would receive a letter within two weeks, if we didn’t get a letter, it wasn’t meant to be. I drove home fairly sure that I had done well and cautiously optimistic that I would get a letter.
Two weeks came…and went. And then four weeks and then six. My contestant selection letter never came. I decided that the show hated me and we stopped watching in protest. In other words, life went on.
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