The time I was on a UPS commercial was really fun but pretty cold. When I got called for the job, they said we needed soccer gear. The night before, my mom had to rush out to buy me soccer cleats and shin guards. The soccer cleats were so cool. They were silver with a cool Nike swish. We got to set super early in the morning. I went straight to wardrobe. They dressed me up in a yellow soccer jersey. There were two soccer teams. I looked like a professional soccer player. The catch was that instead of playing in the nice, bright and sunny day, they turned on a rain machine over and over during retakes. Let me just say, it was freezing outside and we had nothing except for a thin jerseys that was designed for the wind to get in and a pair thin small shorts. They made it rain by putting theses giant sprinklers on top of this one huge tall black crane. It sprayed our half of the field. The water was really cold and came down in big droplets so it actually hurt when it fell down. We ended up getting so cold that they had to set up heaters for us when they were reseting and moving cameras for shots from different angles. We did many takes for the same scene. Trust me this wasn't like a quick thing. It took about two hours in the rain to do the rain scenes. Some kids got so cold that they couldn't even move. Now this may sound a little unpleasant and uncomfortable. But, I actually did have fun when I got over the initial shock of the rain. Some of the kids that were getting really wet were saying really funny stuff that made me laugh. Plus, I new a lot of the kids there so I got to hang out with them and play soccer with them which was really cool. The field we were playing on was actually pretty nice and popular. A lot of people stopped by our set and watched us filming which made us feel really special. In between those scenes, we made our way over to the catering for breakfast. I was so busy playing and focusing on the rain that I didn't even realize how hungry I was. I ate like a wolf and just gorged down an omelete with other food. My mom was pretty surprised because I don't usually eat much. Another scene we did was where I was with a group of kids eating cake behind a car while a kid got his present delivered from UPS to his mom. It was fun. I got to talk to some really funny kids while eating cake and drinking punch. That scene didn't take to long to finish which was nice. But the next scene surprised us entirely. They told us it was going to be a fun and exciting one. When we got there we saw a school bus under the same dark crane that held the sprinkler earlier this morning. They told us we were going to run through the rain and onto the bus. A lot of the boys groaned including me because some of us were still drying off from this morning and some of us had finally dried off. It was hard to get used to the rain at first after it had been a while but we got through it. But at the time we were filming that scene it started to get really breezy. It was a long line of us getting on the bus so we ended spending a lot of time in the rain. One kid got so cold that he almost couldn't get up the stairs. The kid behind me was freezing. So he decided to pick up the kid and run up the stairs with him in his arms. It was super funny but I also was grateful because I was getting pretty cold out there. We got through the scene pretty quick which was really great. Once we finished this scene, they said we were wrapped. So I said bye to all the people that I met and already knew and my mom and I hit the road (after I had a few snacks of course).
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(Me in the rain scene next to the person in the number four jersey. I'm the middle person of the yellow jerseys)-v
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