She decided she wanted to be a K-pop artist in middle school. And she became one. Meet Gauthami aka Aria. π€ ππ»
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00:00I came up with the word, accent, it's just a Latin word and it means furthermore.
00:28So, I speak Malayalam, fluent Malayalam, English, Hindi and Korean.
00:48Even like when there are exams and I get stressed, I kept listening to music because I found
00:52comfort in music.
00:53At first they thought I was joking.
01:15I'm actually really blessed that my family is so supportive because I see a lot of, I
01:22get a lot of, receive a lot of messages saying, Didi aapne, like how did you convince your
01:27family because mine doesn't listen to me.
01:52I did online auditions, there are like lots of online auditions for lots of companies
02:01so I just happened to do it and I fortunately got in, I passed and I was given the invitation
02:08to be here.
02:09Here I feel like I got more independent and back in India I had people doing things for
02:17me, I had my family taking care of me, doing stuff for me.
02:22Sauna, the public bathhouses, like we don't have that in India, like here for sauna everybody
02:27goes in naked and I'm like the strangers going inside the sauna naked and I'm like, the members
02:33are like, Do you want to go to sauna?
02:34And I'm like, You mean the public bathhouse, you want me to go there naked in front of
02:38strangers?
02:39No, thank you.
02:40But here it's a very common thing, so that was a really huge culture shock for me.
02:44It still is and I refuse to go to sauna.
02:49I miss roti.