I'm so glad I read the Daily Log today. Otherwise I wouldn't have known that I had to do this blog posting. My first reaction: "Whaaaaat?" *spazz*
Okay, now that that's out of the way (heh, my shock/disbelief is important), I'll talk about what I did today. Instead of going to school as usual, I went to my mom's office for Take Your Kids to Work Day. She's so organized, it scared me... She had made arrangements for me to go to each one of the sections of the company and get a little introduction. I don't deal well with meeting new people by myself, so it...was a bit terrifying. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the mini-workshops I attended very much.
First, I met with the Recruiting department. They didn't spend so much time explaining to us what they did (it's sort of self-explanatory, anyways) as they did talking about writing a resume. We got a sample resume, and wrote our own based on it. It reminded me of the first day of school, when we were suddenly bombarded with creating a resume. Oya...that was...a surprise.
Anyways, that got me thinking about getting a summer job - preferably at a newspaper office (like the Toronto Star) or a publishing company, but I doubt they'd hire someone with such little experience. So I guess I'll have to start where everyone does - fast food stores!
My second workshop was with the Communications people. Personally, this was my favourite part of the day. We acquired some presentation and communication skills through playing games. It's quite helpful, since I can apply the stuff I learnt to school presentations, or when I'm writing an essay.
One thing we covered was the pyramid theory. In a grouping pyramid, we have the main message at the top; then two to five reasons supporting the main message; then about three reasons supporting each point. It's the type of format I usually use for speeches and essays, so I'm pretty familiar with it. However, in an argument pyramid, we don't start with the main message. Instead, we start with a statement that everyone agrees on, along with a few supporting points which are reasons. Then, we introduce a "but", along with a few supporting points, also reasons. Finally, we suggest what we could do, and the supporting points are actions. The main message comes last.
I prefer using the argument pyramid, but it's much harder to do because there's always a chance that (a member of) your audience might not agree with you on the first statement.
The last thing I did wasn't really a workshop. I sat beside my mom and "shadowed" her. The work she does is interesting, almost secretarial. I wouldn't mind being a secreatary... I've always done quite well in that area. But I'd much rather be a teacher-turned-writer or a video-game programmer. Haha...
By the end of the day, I was exhausted! But we went to Indigos to look at books (what else?) and I stayed there for about an hour, admiring the manga section. Grah... They had Colour Bleach +! It's the newest Bleach fanbook, and it even has 50 colour pages! Fifty! But my mom wouldn't let me buy it. "It's not worth it," she says. Hmph! Well, manga and anime mean a lot to me. Couldn't she have just let it go as an early birthday present...? Even though I'm paying it from out of my pocket...
Well, I still have to alter the ATM outline program to guard against negative values. I'm almost done...
Then I have to post my fanfic up (the raw copy, since I haven't had time to revise it yet) and practice my French script. Ah...so many things to do...
Well, tomorrow I'll be back at school! Until then,
Ja ne!
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