UPDATE TO ANNOYANCES

The first order of business is more complaining about how disorganised the college is. I am about to enter week four and am still unable to login to complete my online learning modules which have due dates. The teachers still have no clue when this is going to be fixed, and when I spoke up in my massage class about it on Friday by innocently stating "Why wasn't this organised before we started?" I was promptly returned immediate dislike by the teacher and the excuse that the college had a large intake this year and was told to be patient. Well sorry guys, but I'm not paying you $10k to wait for you to get your shit together.

I really don't seem to be getting along with my massage teacher. She's quite obviously not the right person for this job (she's new this year) and she doesn't know the colleges procedures very well yet. She doesn't even stick to their curriculum or use their resources. She also treats the students like we are ALL teenage girls. Quite a few of the students are, but I'm 25 and expect to be spoken to like an adult, not scalded in front of the class and bossed around and critiqued like a child. There's a few ladies in the class older than me and I'm not sure how they are handling it. I've requested to be swapped into a class with a more experienced teacher as I know I'm not going to be able to put up with this teacher much longer. She's certainly taken quite a disliking to me for speaking up, so I get a bit of attitude from her when I ask a question like she is trying to prove that I'm stupid.

She doesn't give a demonstration at the front of the classroom for us to follow along with, she just walks around with a piece of paper reading the moves out and does the move very quickly on one of the students who are playing client on the massage tables and doesn't check that we have all mimicked it perfectly before rushing on to the next move. She's also not familiar with all the moves being taught at the college and has apparently taught a few moves wrong to confuse the students a bit more. Mind, I've only had 1.5 classes with her thus far after missing class last week.

I'm starting to question all together whether I want to continue to study this diploma, and I really haven't got much time to think it over as the census date is early next week. After this date, if I withdrew from the course, I would still be liable for the full course fees.

My other two classes, facials and lash and brow fundamentals seem to be going okay. It's tough getting my head around the facial procedure but the teacher is great. She's kind and treats all the students as equals. Despite the unorganised college that backs her, her lessons seem to be quite structured, and unlike the body massage teacher, she gives demonstrations in front of the class so we can follow along, but class runs overtime about 30 minutes in the afternoon. The lash and brow teacher doesn't seem to be too experienced with the theory she teaches us in the lesson, but she's still teaching the subject well enough in the practical side of study, and gives good demonstrations of the treatment procedures. However the workbook for that subject is poorly written and most of the answers haven't been provided in the resource book they gave us on the first day which supposedly contained everything we would need (rendering the text books optional). The workbook is due this coming Tuesday and I'm hoping my Googled answers are going to be correct!

This Tuesday I have a skills test for lash and brow class. This is a test in preparation for the actual practical exam the following week. We will be required to perform an eyelash tint, eyebrow tint and eyebrow shaping with tweezers. I suppose I'm confident with the procedure, but I do pretty much everything at turtle speed and when I am rushed I just crumble, and this is a timed exam!

We finally got to try on some uniforms for size last Tuesday. They are such a terrible fit and won't be arriving for another 2-3 weeks so I'll be sure to show you when it comes in!