It feels like just a couple weeks ago that my class and I reached the fabled '200 HOURS' mark. When an individual reaches 200 hours of training they are allowed to have their friends and family come in to have services done. It's also a little more than half way until we are allowed to take normal people (i.e: walk-ins, scheduled clients, absolute strangers, the bum on the corner) as clients. 450 hours is the next "milestone"
[If any of you are interested in visiting me I strongly encourage you to come in! Let me know a day or two in advance or something tho, but if you're interested in something other than a hair cut I advise you look at the Salon's Menu http://studyhair.com/services.shtml first. I'm more than willing to come help you with something - if I can - outside the Salon to help you save your mula.]
Only three of us have actually taken advantage of that, I brought my mom in for a cut :), the advantage being that we are actually performing services on live individuals that move, talk, and have to go out in public with the hair on their heads instead of being stuffed into plastic bags and then jammed into a locker in a backroom somewhere(not that my seven friends don't enjoy that, then again they don't talk much so I wouldn't know ;) ).
But today I recieved my progress report, a sheet of paper that has on it how many hours you have to date, and how many hours you should have if you came everyday, clocked in on time, didn't clock out for unalotted breaks, and clocked out exactly at 3:00. Somehow...I've reached 300 hours. Not quite sure how that happened so quickly. It really is quite amazing how time goes by so quickly. The older I get, the faster it goes. On one hand this is in my favor - this year of school will go by fast! On the other though....I don't want it to go by so quickly! On the 15th of March the new freshman class will come in and I will graduate to the sophmore class. *un-be-liev-able* I'm 1/4 of the way through and its flown by.
We're currently working on our Floor Exams. These are also known as Practical Tests. We have been given a list of the most popular services performed on the Clinic Floor and are required to do them all in a somewhat timed environment and get a passing grade. This list must be completed before we are allowed to be unleashed on the unsuspecting public. The thing is, they're giving us this exam early. It appears that the teachers feel that the Freshman class of Dec. '09 are ready a bit before the normal time. It also appears the the Freshman class of Dec. '09 do not feel ready before, or maybe even at, the normal time....but we have to do this at some point and none of us are failing, so why not?
Guess you'll be seeing a semi-professional hairstylist on the Floor in a week or two ;)
;-) Proud of Y.O.U!
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