Alfie Thursday Week 2

Today was the second last day of Mine and Doug's work experience. I hoped for these last two days to be as interesting and fulfilling as they possibly could be. This day was definitely one of the best, starting it of was another workshop but in a completely new school. We helped Lizzie carry out an all new workshop showing young children how Hackney has changed over the years, this was an interesting morning and I even learned a few things myself.

The second part of the day consisted of me and Doug sorting out and retouching the photos we took during
the workshop. This was a nice easy task and a nice finish to the day.

Doug, Wednesday, Week Two.

Today we were assigned the task of putting leaflets in envelopes, then stamping them with the TBE information and sticking on an address. We made about 150 envelopes, we then took them down to The Learning Trust branch under the Hackney library where they would be posted off to all the different schools.

After lunch we came back to the office and were told we needed to find a certain map amongst the hundreds of maps that were there. Alfie and I found it after a lot of searching and also found the certain street they were looking for (although it was called something different because the map was so old).

Not the most exiting of days but I enjoyed because we got McDonalds for lunch :)

Alfie Wednesday week two.

My day started of with me and Doug having to send t least 120 letters to different schools advertising some of the workshops. This was a long task but was very satisfying when we where finished. This led us all the way up to lunch and after we had another laborious task to complete.
We came back form lunch only to find ANOTHER pile of maps we had to sort through. Our task was to find a bomb damage map that had a certain road on it. This being seventy years ago it was allot harder than you think and it took a good to hours of research and endless searching to find the right road on the right map.
Although the tasks where challenging it was still another good day and I believe i accomplished allot from it.

Alfie sixth day.

On my sixth day of work experience I showed up and was told that I needed to make more leaflet designs for various workshops, started working as soon i sat down and the end result was two nice looking leaflets (in my opinion).
After lunch i headed back to the office and for the rest of the afternoon i did little tasks such as cutting out squares of card and overall i was just helping out some of the staff. It was not the most exciting day but it was still worth it and i stilly enjoyed the day very much.

Doug, Monday, Week 2

Today, me and Alfie arrived to find the office door locked with no-one inside. We looked around but none of our colleges were to be seen. After a while, Nicole turned up and informed us that everyone else was held up, so we waited until they did.

Once we were inside the office we started work on the design for our school flyers, this brought us up to
lunch.

When we got back it was another hour or two of listing and labeling maps... Oh well.

Alfie fifth day.

This morning me and doug arrived to work with no one there. We waited for a few minutes until one of the staff showed up. They opened the door setting of an alarm making us have to wait for another good half an hour. When we finally got in we designed a leaflet for one of the workshops the company does.
This filled up the rest of the tie before lunch and when we got back we started on sorting out another large pile of maps.
This finally led up to me writing this blog and then to the end of the day. This was one of the more interesting and creative days of my two weeks of work experience.

On my second day here at The Building Exploratory I was told that they wanted to get primary schools in Brent involved in their workshops for small children. Therefore, me and Alfie created a database which included a list of the schools in that area, the Headteachers names and various other information they needed.

After lunch, we came back here to get to work on listing and labeling all the maps they have and categorizing them (A rather tedious job but someone has to do it, right?).

The next morning we assisted with the Senior Bees workshop (Mainly pouring tea and handing out biscuits), where the was a presentation on towers. I found it fairly interesting and learned a bit as well, after the old folk had left we cleared up and went to get lunch.

I have enjoyed my first week here at The Building Exploratory and hope next week will be even better.
Peace out.