It has definatly been a busy week for me! School has been jammed packed and I have been real busy with homework. It all payed off as the first mod of school is over! It is a great feeling to be able to move on to the second mod. There was a graduation on Friday for three girls. It is weird to think that in 11 months I will be up there talking about my Remington/cosmetology adventures. I am very excited about that :). Y'all know I love talking lol. Ok well this last week we learned and performed on each other, manicures, pedicures, and shampoo and styles. It was a lot of fun. I had a hard time having my pedicure done, I don't like people touching my feet, but it all worked out and I survived haha. I was very excited about getting our first kits on Friday. It includes our first manikins (her name is Miss Anna), combs and brushes, roller sets, clips, and the little carrying tote bag. I was very excited! :) Yesterday we went toFlorence to Alicia and Cassie's church for a Christmas party, it was a lot of fun. Everyone was real nice and the food was good, I loved the singing and the message from the Christmas story. Two ladies sang Mary did you know. It was beautiful! Being the Christmas season I knew we would be missing out on some traditions from home (like christmas trees, christmas eve party, the night before christmas book, etc) and I knew we were going to be making our own traditions, but I have to say that I really miss our family traditions. Things are so very different from home. A christmas tree here is $50! and they aren't the real ones like we have at home. Back home you know it's Christmas time just by the smell. It smells like Christmas, the trees, the food, everything. Here it smells like.....well it doesn't smell like Christmas. I guess I am just a bit homesick. Anywho, today I have some homework to finish and church to get to and then maybe a good Sunday movie with my sisters. (making our own traditions) :) take care everyone and remember to say Merry Christmas to someone, it may be the one thing that makes their day better. Maybe they are homesick, or have family away, or they could just use a smile and Merry Christmas.
Toodles
hello again! It has been a few days! Well let's see here....So much going on. On thursday I got a 98% on my test woooo. Then I started learning how to do corn rows! I was excited! Yesterday I got a 97% on my assignment. I know they are good scores, I just can't help but wish they were higher...maybe 100% haha. Anyways, yesterday I finished the corn rows on my maniquin and they looked pretty good I thought. But everyone elses looked amazing so I need to practice more, Alicia said I can do corn rows on her hair tonight. Today Alicia and Cassie have a Christmas Party at their church so I curled/pinned alicia's hair and braided cassie's. I am posting those pics on here. Oh and also I am posting a picture of the gas prices. They are amazingly low! They are lower now considering this picture is from a couple days ago but WOW! I think I am making friends with some people in my class. :) Which is nice. It is hard being way over here and not knowing anyone. Back home it wasnt like this, it seems I am home sick a little. I am very happy here though. I am glad to be here, just missing friends and family back home. I hope I won't forget what y'all look like lol. I have discovered just about how different things are here. Couple nights ago we had a "visitor". Haha too bad it wasn't for us. It was about 11:30pm and Alicia and I were in the living room, she just finished helping me study for my test and she was studying for her test. I had started to fall asleep on the couch and we heard a BANGING on the door. Not a knocking, no not knocking, BANGING. Like when the cops come to the door and bang. Scared the pee outta me almost. Alicia and I were both like "is that our door?" and sure enough it was. So I went over and looked out the peep hole, but I couldn't make out who it was (mind you my brain was still on the couch trying to wake up still) so I opened the door a tad and this girl pushed it all the way open and said "who are you?" and started taking her shoes off! I said uh, who are you!?! Then she looked up and Alicia and I and said, "where's Steve?" So Alicia said you have the wrong house, and she didn't believe her. She said "are you sure??" I said "yeah this is our house, no one named Steve lives here" and she said "well I have been here with him before outside....I work with him"(I suppose maybe she thought if she mentioned she worked with him I might change my mind and decide Steve lives here and i was hiding him the whole time. *rolls eyes*) So I said well he doesn't live here sorry wrong house. And she said "he drives a big white truck,& lives here." Then it registered she was talking about the guy who always parks his big white truck in front of the dumpster blocking us in our spaces. So we said OH that guy! He lives under us. and she said "are you sure?" Uh no I lied he lives in my pantry...."Yes I am sure" And then haha she said...."well how do I get down there?" I just looked at Alicia, like did she really just ask that? So I said, "go down the ramp and down the stairs." So she put her shoes back on and left. Alicia and I just sat there for a couple minutes and I looked at her and said That JUST happened....for real. I wasnt dreaming right? Nope I wasn't. *sigh* That was pretty entertaining. Anyways I have lots of homework chapter 11 is a beast. I am fixin to pull my books out so I'll be back another day!
Toodles
