#( baek doesn't talk much jiah yaps the whole time asami has cohesive thoughts and talks nicely )

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DIATL Vlog, Trainee Mission 018

Asami has been doing this for years, and she’s still not used to talking to a camera like there was someone watching her. They say it’s easier if you imagine you’re talking to a friend instead of by yourself, but that never really worked for Asami who doesn’t even talk that much when she’s around her actual friends, so it’s exactly instinctive. She also only grabs the camera to start recording when she has already washed up to look presentable and finished making herself a quick breakfast because she might not know how to do this, but she won’t be recording herself right after waking up. She has some common sense.

“Hello everyone,” she says quietly not to disturb anyone in the dorm who might still be sleeping. “I’m Takanashi Asami and I’ll take you around with me today, I hope you don’t mind. I don’t do many exciting things, but I’m just finishing breakfast now, and then I’ll be heading out,” she recites with ease the words she wrote down the night before like a script.

The next time she grabs the camera and starts recording herself (to her horror) is when Asami is arriving her destination, a café hidden in the bottom of a slope that has greenery everywhere and is the definition of cozy and quiet. “I have practice later today, but I’m here because I need to study,” she says as she enters the café and gets herself a place tucked in a corner. She had obviously asked for permission before she came in, and she had been here so many times, the owner didn’t mind if she didn’t disturb anyone. “I’ve been in Korea for… I think it’s nearly five years now. I’m originally from Tokyo, so because I’ve been here so long, sometimes I feel like I don’t know how to speak neither language,” she chuckles sheepishly and scratches a spot behind her ear, “I’ve been wanting to update my vocabulary, get to know the new slangs and talk more clearly. I feel like I’ve been stumbling over my words a lot more often these days,” and Asami goes on about it, writing down and pronouncing it quietly as she lets the camera run. The rest of the day is, as she had predicted, uneventful. Asami has lunch, goes to practice, shows off the folder in her tablet with all the lyrics and compositions that she has worked on but not opened any of them because “maybe you’ll listen to these someday, right?”. She only truly stopped recording when it was time to start her shift in the barbecue restaurant. “I must get to work now. Nothing too exciting, right? Practice takes a long part of our day, but it’s nice. I got a lot better recently because I have been focusing on practices more. I said before that I’ve been a trainee for a long time, right? Sometimes it can be a little discouraging, but truly, I can’t see myself working in any other area, right now. And I’ve been working really hard to meet you all when I reach the best of my abilities. So, let’s meet up soon. I’ll see you. Bye-bye.”