First Day of School! First Day of School!

So Sunday I went to the open school day at MUD and I had a blast. There was a makeup demo and mini photoshoot before the look was changed on the model. Then there was a quick hair demo. With the Q & A session I got a lot of information about my teachers and the woman who started this MUD

Studio in Berlin. I am so happy I went because I got familiar with the school itself and I got to know the teachers. It really helped me to come in on my first day less stressed. Of course at the end of the day it started to rain and I had left my umbrella back at the flat. So I went next door and got a waffle and a coffee. Unfortunately since I couldn't read the menu I ordered a sweet waffle because the lady looked at me like I was crazy when I asked for it with butter. I got this thing and it was so good. It tasted like a less sugary churro with some cinnamon flavor and it came covered in powdered sugar. It was so good but I would have loved some jam or something on it.

Monday is a German holiday so I didn't start school until Tuesday. It was so nice walking there with the stress of it being the first day but not having anxiety about who would be my instructor, where the studio was, what the studio was like, and so on. Our first day we got our kits and did a lot of talking. We had to take a ton of notes and spent most of the day learning about makeup, undertone, shade, and basic color theory. We also did a few exercises about shade and undertone in our workbooks but nothing too crazy. It wasn't until the last hour of the day that we applied makeup. We learned to base match. We get an hour break for lunch and I went out to lunch with most of the girls in the class. I had a pasta with pumpkin in it. I thought I was ordering falafel but I was wrong. Instead I got farfalle which is apparently a type of Italian noodle. Other than our food taking forever and the girls at the table were speaking German unless they were engaging me, it was a nice lunch break. I got to know the girls a little bit and we all just got to chat. We were also assigned a lot of homework which took me most of my evening because it meant I had to go to the store. I had to find something to label my kit with. If I was at home I would use nail polish to mark the kit as mine and make distinguishing marks on my pallets. I could only find a MC Paper store which is a REALLY small office supply shop but it did the trick, but I will probably change it when I get back to the states. Who knows really. After I labeled every piece of my kit I had to read three chapters in my text book and answer twenty-five questions about makeup, professionalism, and sanitation. It took me forever. I mean it was 30 pages of dense reading and questions to go along with it. By the time I was done I was so tired I couldn't even sit here to write a paragraph for this blog.

Today was my second day and it was better than the first. We spent the whole day learning about skin care and base matching the rest of the girls in the class. Today there was also a lot more bonding happening. I got into conversations with the girls doing my makeup - and when I was sitting for them, I got to know the instructor better, and I had little conversations with individual girls on breaks or in between applications. I also had lunch with just one other girl today, we went back to the waffle house I went to on Sunday and this time she was my secret weapon... She speaks and reads German. I got a waffle with apple and it was like an apple pie waffle. It was SO GOOD. As a class though we pretty much decided we were going to go to the screening of the finale of Ru Paul's Drag Race and see the drag show after. The one and only guy in our class will be performing. I was looking at pictures of his drag and it is amazing and avant garde. He is not actually in the class fully, he will be taking airbrush with us and has to learn some of the MUD basics and standers before he can take that class. He will be popping in and out when he is not in his university classes. 

Honestly with the girls in this class, I can see myself become good friends with them. I'm glad that is the case because I have to spend three months with these girls and if I didn't like them I wouldn't know what to do! I think what I am going to do though is I am going to try to get the girls from the class to come out with me for my birthday on Monday. It should be fun. These girls are really interesting.

I also had a really nice talk with Betti, my flatmate, today when I got home. We talked about school, Halloween, Christmas time, and all kinds of fun stuff. We have decided we are going to get a small Christmas tree for the flat because she has never done that before. Also, because I like Berlin so much, she is going to help me learn German so I am not floundering anymore. She is going to teach me one phrase and one word a day. This way I have to use it that day and she will ask me about it at the end. Also if I ask the girls in my class and the instructor I could probably learn some of the German names for things, or phrases from them too. By the end I hope to at least have a small amount of German in my back pocket. 

Tschüss!