Ah…it’s hard to believe that just a little more than a month ago we first heard of the Room Remix contest. It’s a contest hosted by BET, and though it’s pretty lame that they thrive on conflict and instigate if they don’t see enough, it’s nice to win something worth so much. See the commercial for it asked if you couldn’t stand being with your roommate and needed someone to help make your shared living space more neutral. Our entry video featured that riled up little sister of mine, insisting my books are garbage and my notes are trash and my hobby of Japanese language learning is dumb. To think that we actually won the contest, announced on the 8th of September, and that I’d have to go through more of her insults…well…it made me pretty sad. But now that I’m a grown-up –18 since September 17– I decided to talk through my problem with her and we came to the agreement that if she trash talked me I’d walk away.
So yeah, to back track my sister, Nesha, heard about the contest on BET, went on the site and signed up. She received an email requesting pictures of our room a few days later and those were sent in. Then about a week later a woman named Adrienne called and requested we send in a video of us explaining our situation, and a few days after that my sister IMed me at work in Capslock that we were finalists.
We were one of four finalists, and I hear we won by a landslide, but maybe the manager/producer just wanted to make use feel good.
It all happened pretty fast…After that we were interviewed by the design team, I was called a slob, and I cleaned more than I had in maybe 5 years in a week. I wonder if I’ve lost weight.
Here’s a video I made of the before and after.
