HWTMA Work Experience July 2011 Day Seven

I arrived early again at 8:35am, as usual I did my blog first thing and that took about 3/4 of an hour yesterday! When Gareth arrived (just as I finished) I reminded him about finding the photos from the Maritime-Line. I should explain, this Maritime-Line is just a rectangular poster produced by HWTMA and it's a timeline of Maritime and local history. There are many pictures on it and some I need for the Jenga game. They must be saved somewhere on the computer, we just have to find them. It was quite a busy morning and I worked really hard. I wrote all the descriptions for every photo I had found, re-arranged my grid so it made more sense and updated the Corel programme I made yesterday to fit in with my grid.

Then I had lunch at about 1:00pm before continuing with finding more photos and checking through all the internet sites I'd bookmarked yesterday because they may have been useful in finding artefacts. This afternoon my teacher was supposed to arrive at 2:00pm to check up on me and how my work experience placement was going. At just after 2:00pm the office got a phone call from a lady at the NOC office (in another part of Southampton) saying my teacher had turned up there! It wasn't my teachers fault; she had been given the wrong address by the company my school books work experience through. I also noticed when I discovered this placement that they'd spelled the Wight from 'Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology' wrong, they spelled it 'white' like the colour not 'Wight' like the Isle of Wight.

Anyway, my teacher did get to this office eventually at about 2:30pm. Firstly Gareth spoke to her, then she came over to me and I showed her everything I'd been doing, such as all the descriptions and photos I'd arranged and I also showed her the animation I made. We talked about the Jenga game and the blog and how I was finding the placement. Then she filled in a section of my Work Experience Journal (it's a booklet the school gave everyone in my year to fill in details about where you did work experience, what you did and then three review pages at the back, one for you, one for your teacher and one for your employer).

After my teacher left I continued finding artefacts and writing descriptions for them as well as making not of what website I found them on. I think today was a very successful day and possibly tomorrow I may finish finding photos!!