First of all...

Ok.  In this post, I will not mention real names, or the real name of my school.  I don't want to be sued.  So I will make up names, might be fun.  You won't care anyway, you don't know these people.  


I go to a Beauty School in Charlotte, North Carolina.  It's a small school, and eco-friendly, most the schools around here, are.  If you ever have any questions, just comment, and I'll get back to you.


The first thing we did in school, was learn hair cutting.  That was a complete mess.  3 weeks, two on women and 1 on mens.  We started off in the large advanced classroom.  There were 3 classes in one classroom, we had 3 teachers in there too.  But it was still pretty crazy.  The other classrooms were taken up by some type of meeting or something, that lasted the entire time.  Each teacher had their own style, and told us different things.  Of course, they also had 3 groups of students, each at a different level, to focus on.  So we didn't get too much attention.


Everything calmed down a lot when we got to our own class rooms. Two groups went to the larger, pre-salon classroom.  Taught by Ms. alphabet and Ms. Polka-Dot.  The other class, which was more advanced, but still pre-salon, went to the smaller classroom taught by Mr. Levi.


I have no idea where the advanced class was, when we were in their classroom, but they moved in whenever we left. There's also a class called 360.  After a few months in pre-salon, you move to 360 for 3 weeks.  Where you review everything you learned, and do 15 free services.  Then move to advanced.


Just so we're clear, this is what happens in each class.


Pre-salon:  Learning on Mannequins, taking a LOT of notes, and taking a LOT of tests.  I've been in school since Sept. 13th, 2010, and I moved to my first week of 360 on the 24th of January, 2011.  You can do the math, yourself.  This is my second week, and I've only done 6 services.  Hopefully I'll get enough done to graduate.  In order to GO to 360, you have to pass the 360 test.  It isn't that hard, but you have to get an 80 to pass.


360: You're here for 3 weeks.  Our first week we did all the review.  Leaving us Mannequin work and services for the last 2 weeks.  I don't know what the teacher for 360, does for the other 3 weeks, before the next class comes in, but I think that's irrelevant.  You used to have 15 clients.  But now we only have to do 15 services, I don't know what happened.  I guess they took pity on us.


Advanced: In advanced you do two things.  Salon floor and class work.  If you're in class Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, on this week, then next week you'll only be there Tuesday and Thursday.  The great thing about advanced is you pretty much run the school, and can take lunch whenever you want.