Of course I was so excited and nervous that I actually arrived at the school at 8:45 am. I was instructed to come through the student entrance and to wear "all black". There I was, completely covered in black, waiting anxiously for the initiation to begin.
I was ushered into the main meeting room where a series of tables were set up with metal folding chairs. In front of each chair was a hand decorated paperbag that said "Survival Kit". There was also little piles of chocolates and mints and Tootsie roll pops scattered along the tables. A pack of papers was also in front of every chair.
Since I was the first to arrive, I had a few minutes to figure out where I wanted to sit (in the back of the room) and check out the scene. As new people arrived I discovered that many of the attendees were in the skin day program. Eventually I met a very pretty blonde who told me she was in the night cosmo program.
The entire room eventually filled up and there were over 20 attendees. Of those in attendance only 6 were night cosmo students like me. I was thrilled to know I was in a small class for many reasons.
Initiation was kicked off by a beautiful and very energetic school administrator who walked us through several team building exercises including adding a fruit or vegetable name with the same first letter as our first names. I became Karen Kumquat. There were also lots of great prizes won and I was thrilled to win an elegant backpack with the school's colors and name stenciled on the back.
Lunch was provided and we left a little after 2:00 pm after being shown how to clock in and out of school, which is a very critical exercise. Every minute, every hour that is logged is credited towards that 1,500 hours that you need to quality in Texas to be a licensed cosmetologist. We all became very aware of the importance of guarding every precious minute that we logged at school.
I left Cosmo Initiation filled with anticipation and names of many new fruits and vegetables dancing in my head.Please follow us on Twitter at: https://Twitter.com/HairBoutique. I look forward to meeting new people from all walks of Twitter and learning from their Tweets.