Ayiiia, one of the new castmembers on Real World: Cancun, has the strangest name I’ve ever seen.  If you count “Y” as a vowel (and I certainly do in this situation), she has six vowels and zero consonants.

The most facinating thing is that six letters is all it takes to make Ayiiia interesting.  That’s all.  Because she’s so interesting, here’s an excerpt of an interview she recently gave.

You probably get this a lot but what’s the story behind your name?
I don’t know. I have no idea where it comes from. It sounds Hawaiian, right? I just tell people it means “beautiful flower,” but I totally made that up.

You were the winner of the realworldcasting.com contest. Things didn’t go so well for Greg from the Hollywood season who was the previous winner. Were you worried about the same thing happening to you? Do you feel like the other cast members treated you differently because you didn’t go through the same process that they did?
At first, I looked at Greg and thought it sucked how he was represented just through editing and stuff. After stepping into his shoes, as an Internet winner, I think that you are treated differently though. I don’t know, I think they (the fellow cast members) leave you out because they think you don’t deserve to be there because you got in a different way. I don’t know if it’s jealousy, I have no idea what it is but you are treated a little differently. It was definitely a little difficult. People automatically just labeled me as the “Internet winner.” They treated me a certain way because of that. It was very frustrating at times, which you guys will see. But in the end, it literally all plays out. It was just a difficult process.

Your bio says that you are a “reformed party girl,” how big of a challenge was it for you to go to a reality show in Cancun, of all places? Was it difficult to remain the “reformed party girl” in that setting?
It definitely was difficult for me because I am a reformed party girl, or whatever you’d like to call it. I got started at 13. I live in San Diego, I’ve got Tijuana just 10 minutes away and its 18 to drink there, but really you know you don’t need an ID there. By the time I was in high school I was over that. My junior year and senior year I really got into my studies and picked up my life a little. But being in Cancun, that side of me was brought out again. I’m very much the party girl. I don’t think I’m over it yet. It was difficult for me because I thought that stage of my life was over.

What did you think of last night’s Real World premiere?  Who’s your favorite castmember?  What do you think of Ayiiia?  What are your predictions for the rest of the season?  Let your opinions be known in the comment section.

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