You can't get what you want if you don't speak up.
I got my two minutes and fifty-two seconds of stardom on the seven A.M. broadcast of Fox 23-Tulsa in 2011 while at the Tulsa State Fair.
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| Who wants to be on tv? I DO!!! |
Reporter, Kristin Tallent, came through the barn early that morning. The ten of us had just finished all the feeding and watering and cleaning bedding. She and her coworker looked around the dairy barn a little while, and when they came back, she stopped and asked if anyone wanted to be on tv. We all just kind of looked at each other, and then I threw my hand up in the air and said, "I do!"
She took me with her and explained what we would be doing. I pulled back my messy hair, brushed the dirt off myself, and borrowed my mom's windbreaker. It was the cleanest dirty shirt we had with us in the barn.
They were doing a segment on the opening day of the fair. They also wanted me to have a heifer in the interview, so I had to borrow one. My heifers were arriving on a second load not too long after the interview would have been over.
It was so exciting! She asked me questions about all the work that I put into getting ready for the fair, and of course, the heifer decided to act up. I was scared she was going to knock us down, but she didn't. I also wondered how I would look on tv being all dirty and yucky from my work, but you know, I looked pretty good! Thank goodness for that cleanest dirty shirt!
When I got back from filming, apparently my mother e-mailed the link for the re-broadcast to my homeroom teacher! Then my teacher showed it to the whole sixth grade! So when I got back from the Tulsa State Fair, everyone was calling me "Superstar". One of my friends said, " How was your trip?" I said "Fine." He nodded and said, "I saw you on tv!"
That was one of the funnest days of my life!
