A day at Animalia School of Modeling wasn't like other beauty schools.
All students started their day with Morning Workout, both to keep a healthy weight and get that 'glow' that most modeling companies were looking for. Afterwards, there was a half-hour Gossip corner for socializing, before the lessons began. After a 45-minute lunch social, there was Application shooting, where the lessons talked about before lunch was applied. Once a week there would be a new Special Project that a client would want from the School. With the news coverage of Carnival Animalia, a lot more business was coming to Animalia. For example, Marcy was asked to be a mascot for a new brand of Coca-cola, like in the older commercial advertisements, and she agreed after the negotiations for her cut of the pay.
This wasn't the only example of people coming to Animalia for economic reasons. Fashion companies looking for Animalians to display their new products; music performers looking for Animalians for a music video for a new song; artists looking for a model for their latest piece, and so on. There was also a secret studio where pornographic videos were shot for the website, but it was both hard to find, and to get into, mainly to keep agents from celebrity newsmongers out. Also, all contracts had to go through Clara and the Animalia Council, which was starting to look somewhat like the United Nations than a town government.
Fortunately, Maggie didn't have to do all the teaching alone. When attendance at the School jumped from four to 40 in only two weeks, the School sent out some 'help wanted' ads and got nine other teachers. Some were friendly rivals with Maggie during her own runway days, but others were winners of America's Next Top Model, and fortunately, not all of them were female. This was good as half of the School's students were males, and it was a little difficult to have female teachers explain modeling to males.
There were often many surprises, and laughs during Gossip Corner and Lunch Social:
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Maggie came into the room that had been prepared for her and saw some girls laughing at what was on one girl's IPad.
"What's so funny, girls?" She asked, coming over to them. When she saw the IPad, she laughed as well. It was a website dedicated to conspiracy theories, from near believable ones to downright silly ones, all seemingly based on what happened in the media.
The article shown was a theory on why there was a UFO sighting shortly before the Animalia virus was released. The resulting article was that aliens had a hand in the creation of the virus, with reasons ranging from 'achieving a better society' to 'overthrowing a corrupt humanity'. There also was an article about Animalia being the so-called 'Rapture'.
"Those conspiracy theorists," said Maggie, shaking her head, "what will they think of next?"
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During Lunch Social, Maggie talked with Martha about her uncertainty about children and her modeling career. During the talk, Maggie showed a picture from the official Animalia School of Modeling portfolio of Clara doing a shoot as a Native American fertility goddess, unhindered by her quadruplet-laden belly (the news had spread before then). Martha was then convinced to continue her career, and when the kits came in, she would switch to being a maternity model. Maternity models were expectant mother Animalians who did advertising for things like plus-size nursing bras, etc..
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All in all, Maggie was grateful that she had help teaching at her new workplace. While her old ego had her competing with some of her old rivals (most of which underwent conversion because they didn't qualify for Project Phoenix), she was glad that she wouldn't be teaching forty would-be models at one time.