A day with Justine Link

Hi! My name is Justine and I attend the 916 Cosmetology program and Stillwater Transition program. Everyday at Cosmetology when we get in the class we clock it on the computer, grab our name tags and find our station and proceed on the activity were doing. Every four weeks we changed teachers, since we have two teachers teaching the program, and they both teach different activities. Mrs Bengtson is who I have now and she's teaching hair coloring. Lately, we've been learning how to do foils and balayage practice with conditioner and then after Mrs Bengtson picks a day and we’ll use actual hair lightener. After the four weeks are up, we switch and go to Mrs. Katie's class where she's teaching skin and nail care. We will be learning how to do waxing, as well as learning new makeup skills and how to do gel nails, pedicures and manicures. Every Friday is “Friday fun day” where both of the classes come together and practice what we learned on each other. We can shampoo each other, curl hair, paint nails, and whatever else we have learned. I am a second year student so I am relearning some things, which is always nice.
Then after Cosmetology we go to the Transitions program where we do PAES, which is vocational job skills you work on with job activities. My job experience is to go to Special Products where we are working on sewing tote bags out of recycled materials. People are buying these recycled bags and using them to carry groceries and other items home from the stores. It is a great project and we feel we are helping people cut down on plastic bags that pollute the environment.