Friday Sept. 30, 2011- sunday Oct. 2,- day 2-to-day 4

I'm ALIVE!!! sorry sorry sorry! it has been SO busy! and paying for internet is way too much money! So now i'm bumming it from the CNC Turning competitor!

Well as for our stay here: On friday we woke up early and did awesome tours all over D.C. we went to the white house, capitol, and sentate buildings. Spoke to many influential people and had such a blast!!
Later that night we went to the airport to board our London flight. That airport (washington dulles) is huge!! I can't believe it!! I swear we were walking and walking and walking FOR-EVER!!! oh well! we got on the plane, our flight left at 10:00p.m. and I sat next to a very nice englishman! Well that was about it! we got there 7 hours later, so my timing and sleeping were all messed up!
So then that night we went to look around, and we ended up in this super ghetto area. i was pretty sure we were going to be jumped in the subway. oh well! we all turned out okay. But we were all so tired we just passed out!!

SO here's where the fun is! today we have had such a blast! I woke up early and went exercising, saw the most beautiful sunrise of my life! and then we got ready, had a super delicious breakfast and then we met up as a team and went on an excursion as all the competitors.
It was really cool! we got to ride in these old british red double decker buses. and they showed us everywhere. We went to trafalga square, buckingham palace, big ben, westminister abby. It was SO much fun! and then we met at the end of the tour and went on a river ride. That was tons of fun!! Then at the end of that they dropped us off at the London Eye (the HUGE Farris wheel!) that was cool! and I got some amazing pictures! I couldn't believe everything I saw!! and then they took us to a opening social, and we ate good food and tried to meet all of our competitors! So cool! Canada for sure seems like a really cool girl! and it's nice because most of them speak english! (I love having the most common language)

So that's what we did today, I need to get to bed early (I'm keeping myself on a good schedule!) and after that we get to go meet with our experts and see our competition floor!! and make sure everything works right!! I SOOO can't wait!!

alright sending my love from London!! <3

September 29, 2011- day 1

Well first stop, Washington D.C.! I'm meeting up with the rest of the SkillsUSA World Team.

My flight arrived earlier this afternoon around 2, but because somehow I was forgotten I didn't get picked up until 5. oh well! it was me, 3 full suitcases, and an ipod full of my "London" jams! (thanks Allison for putting it together for me!! you're the best!) and we just chilled for a few hours.

So now we're at a hotel, we really have kept it pretty chill, we went to dinner at tenderjacks, and we made a quick Walmart stop, somehow all of us girls forgot nylons!

Well I get a roommate again! It's Victoria Brown :) and she is competiting in graphic design. Such a funny girl! our room is definitely going to be the party room through this trip! (I'll post a picture after of us!) and thanks to Pandora we're listening to the Beatles radio station while I write on here and she transfers suitcases. (her's broke in the airport haha!)

Well I know this day wasn't very exciting, but tomorrow is when the fun starts, we'll be going into D.C. seeing the capitol, white house, and all of that fun stuff! So make sure you stay tuned!!

XOXO!

STRESSin'!

So So So SO SORRY! it has been too long since I've written on here. I know I said every tuesday. But life has been so busy! I am training for the WorldSkills event in London. I leave on Sept. 29th, so these past 2 weeks have been "crunch time!"
It really has been so good. for the past month I have been waking up early (6:30), eating healthier, and feeling tons better! I realized you can't expect your body to automatically adjust to waking up 4 hours earlier than you normally do. So this past month I've been training it to wake up earlier.
If you take care of your body, it will take care of you! I am such a firm believer! I have had so much energy and feeling ten times better about myself. and So much happier!

So back to competition. I am really stressing out! I feel like I have the weight of the world on my shoulders! But things have been going really good! I've been finishing all of my mannequins in the time limit (I have 8 different tests, all on raw mannequins), and that includes, cut color, styling, and finishing.

But here I am a little girl from Utah, thinking wow! I have so much to do with just styling the hair. Now you get to add on, cutting it there too, and not to mention coloring it. And if your lines of color are just barely off. well forget it! you just lost the competition! well that's not all. Notice how I said "finishing" well yes that does including putting clothing on your mannequin and doing make up.

I'm a stylist! not a wardrobe professional! or even a make up artist! I luckily have had such an amazing make up artist help me out with the make up. her name is Jill Tracy Chambers. GOOGLE her! she has a website! and her make up is flawless! she is so great at what she does and she has taught me tons! a comb used to be my weapon of choice, buuuut... I'm starting to have lots of fun with the painting and powder side of things!

So that's what I have been up to! I leave the 29th! and I'll make sure I post pictures of all 8 mannequins before then!

blog on!

The Future aka October!

So I spent all day training today! I think the hardest part about training is getting up to do it! I HATE waking up early. (this is making me laugh because it sounds like I'm saying exercise training, no way! I mean hair training!)
Wondering what I'm "training" for? well it's Called World Skills. It will be held in London, This coming October.
I get to do 8 different mannequins all from scratch. that means cut, color, styling, polishing. thats also known as a lot of hard work! I try to practice for sure 1 mannequin a day, if not 2.

At World Skills i compete against 40 different countries. All of there best of the best. Talk about nerve racking!

There is a lot more to competition than people think. One little hair out of place, on little divet, and you just got knocked down 10 points! you HAVE to practice every day to do your best.

The good news about my life is that I have already competed in HairWorld which is the biggest hair competition there is, and World Skills is the hardest competition there is. So it's nice that there is a little background there in the world arena.

this is what I do. I practice practice. Well that's what I did today.

Want to know the best part of my day? I got called a Hair Ninja. haha thank you random civilian.

Even though the practicing is tough, peoples faces dropping when they see your art that you've just created, yeah that makes it worth it!