Journal# 1

Karina Rodriguez Febuary 4,09
Journal #1
Today was the first day of internship which was really nervracking for me. I still havn’t found an official actual site, but I did get to start my internship at the Empire beauty school in front of my school. There I would get to observe, and shadow a class for a few hours. My topic is beauty/esthetics, but the class that I was shadowing was cosmetology. In the beginning when I was told that I wasn’t going to be shadowing a makeup class I was sort of upset about that. My supervisor Shera Burke was really nice, she gave me a little tour of their school which was really interesting. The school wasn’t as big as it looked from the outside, but it felt big enough. They had different floors like one for esthetics, which is mainly like facials, and spa treatment services. Then another floor was just cosmetology, focusing on only hair. Shera introduced me to a student that would be leading me to the class that I would be observing. He was very friendley, and looked more excited than me. As I entered the class room it looked just like a college class, very organized. The teacher was an old lady that was very nice. She introduced me to the class, and then gave me a seat next to the sudent that Shera introduced me to, I forgot his name. Everyone in the class had a text book that they followed along reading with the teacher. They had a big projector so the teacher can point out what she was talking about in the book. The teacher started talking about verbal, and non-verbal. Verbal means for example when a hair stylists first has a costumer, and they ask the costumer what they would like done to their hair. If the costumer is very outspoken, and gives a lot of detail, and information on how they want their hair done then that means that they are verbal which is commonsense. Non-verbal is a customer that doesn’t answer you and is undecided. They just shake their head, and don’t give you no type of information on what they want to get done on their hair. The teacher made the class really interesting because she would call on people, and ask them to make an example of verbal, and verbal. She called on one girl, and told her to do non-verbal. The teacher played the hair stylists, while the girl was playing the costumer. The teacher asked the girl “so what would you like done to your hair today”? The girl started saying that she wants her hair one color, but then she doesn’t because her friend has it that color, and that she would want some highlights, but then she’s not sure, and kept going on, and on, on what she wanted to get done. It was really funny, and engaging to watch. I was sort of nervous because I didn’t want her to choose me just because I was the new girl. But unfortunately she didn’t. She asked another girl to demonstrate an example of non-verbal. The teacher once again asked the girl “so what would you like done to your hair today”? The girl that was playing the costumer was really quiet, and only looking down. The stylists kept asking her what she wanted done to her hair but all she kept doing was nodding her head. She didn’t say one word, and that’s an example of non-verbal someone who doesn’t communicate with the stylist. After we had a lunch break, and I went to go talk to Shera just to update her on how everything was going. I told her I really enjoyed the class, but that it was just something that I wasn’t interesting in doing in the future for a career. She told me that if I wanted that I can talk to one of the teachers that teach the esthetics class. I really wanted to, to see what type of information she can give me. Shera introduced me to the lady, she was really nice, and right away started talking to me about what I was interested in doing, and giving me advice. As we talked in her office she gave me a lot of advice on what to do if I want to become a makeup artist. She told me that I should take an esthetics class because in order to become makeup artists I should know about skin. I never really thought of that so I’m really looking forward into taking a semester at the empire school, and go from there.