This year at school Jack is the morning announcement person. He loves his job and many, many teachers have commented to me how good he is at it. One day a few weeks ago a teacher at his school sent me an email and told me to take Jack to the Radio Disney tryouts. I just laughed at her. Then another teacher told me I should do it and several others agreed. It stayed in the back of my head but not considered very seriously. Then when we got up this morning Greg asked me if we were going to go. I quickly asked Jack and he was excited about the idea. So, off we headed to stand in a line. We were about half way in the long, long line. We were actually in group 23. Each group had 10 children in it and there were at least as many behind us as in front so I figure around 400. As we registered I quickly realized how serious some of these people were. They all had head shots of their kids and resumes!!! Head shots for the radio, really??? So, after waiting for quite a while it was our turn to get our script and practice to head into the audition. We found a seat and he read through the script a few times. It was really short blurbs and info type sentences that they actually use on the show. He was really pretty cute reading them and didn't seem nervous at all. Then we headed into the audition! He was number 2 and a lady had them introduce themselves and then tell their age and then she chose a number off the script and asked them to read. All of a sudden I could tell he was a little nervous. Not too bad but he didn't read with as much expression as he had to me. He was the youngest in his group of 10 but he held his own really well.
After we walked out of the audition a DJ was there asking kids questions and letting them "audition" for him on the radio. He asked Jack to "audition" and let him pick the number to read. He actually tried to talk Jack out of #8, Jack's favorite one. I think the DJ thought it was too hard for Jack. Well, he showed him. He blew it out of the water! People clapped and the DJ and another Radio Disney personality were very complimentary. They asked me if he got his talent from me, to which I quickly answered "Absolutely Not".
Do I expect a call back? No, but this is an experience Jack will always remember. Hey, mom, remember when I got to talk on the radio? Yes Jack, and I was so very proud of you!
