| Whose Ear Did I Spit in? |
Second trimester has officially begun.
So now 4 days after having started work, I'm establishing another routine (whoopee). This past Monday was spent touring our last work placement and then interviewing with the other 10 employers. I wanted to work in a school or just somewhere where I would be able to interact with people. So basically school or Youth Recreation Center. As long as I didn't have to do physical labor for another 3 months.
I managed to get through 5 interviews within the allotted time and I felt they all went really well except the one I did for Mazo de la Roche school; my french wasn't as fluid as I'd hoped.
I interviewed with 3 schools, the ecology center and the rec center and I was thankfully placed with Mazo and the rec center.
I work at Mazo de la Roche every Tuesday and Thursday and the other 3 days, I work at the Rec center. So far I've worked at each place twice.
At Mazo I work with students in their classrooms, dealing with mostly 4-8th graders. So far, I've worked with 1st graders who were so nervous they could hardly hold their book straight when I read with them, an 8th grade class who likes to fart and another 8th grade class with a group of girls who are now "katima-groupies" for Mik and myself... they're a group of creepy little girls.
The rec center has had me do a lot of reading so far. The first day there was spent reading over health and safety policies and their confidentiality forms, etc. That day was also the first day I've ever really skateboarded. It hurt. I managed to bruise both hips and something weird was going on with a tendon in my hand so that's not too good. In any case, I had fun doing it.
For my second day there I was assigned to work on a computer that will be imaged onto a bunch of other of their computers in the lab. My assignment was to look over the computer, familiarize myself with it and put together a list of games and programs that kids might want on it.
The computers they have are well, not gaming computers in any stretch of the imagination but they will at least be able to handle Counter Strike 1.6, Need For Speed - Hot Pursuit 2, Sim City 4 and others and will hopefully have RPG Maker VX, Pivot animator, GIMP, Anvil Studio and a few other things (I don't have the list in front of me). And come Monday, a technician is going to come to the center and I'll be working with him for the day to get everything on the computer, image it and then install it on the other computers. Should be fun.
So far, I'm enjoying my work. I wanted to work in a school and the rec center because I felt those were the places where I could interact with people a lot and not be overwhelmed as I develop communication skills and try to get tasks done.
Oh, as far as this post's title goes, I got that quote from one of the kids at Mazo. I was sitting in the gym with Mik and as a group of kids walked past us, one of them asked his friend, "Whose ear did I spit in last time?"
And he was serious as he asked it. I chuckled.
So the next big event to look forward to is the upcoming 48-hour break. We're lucky to have a holiday on the Monday after our planned 48 so it is now a 72-hour break. My plans so far are set on a trip to Toronto. I'll update on it once I've planned it all.
So for now, that's all. |
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