I signed up for a shadow mentor last week... I am not sure how many people are actually familiar with this, but basically, we (students) go to companies, and follow one (or more) person all day to see what they are doing in real world.
It is requirement for 3rd year (graduating year) but not for us (2nd years), so they signed up first, then we signed up for left-overs. I signed up because I really wanted to see how people work as landscape architects for my future plan. (well.. I am NOT planning to change my major again though!)
I luckily got a position... it was a bit competitive to get a company close to my place (which was also most popular out of 5 or 6 companies.) Other places were in North Vancouver or West Vancouver.. or not even in Vancouver.. so sign up day.. I lined up from 7:45.. and one guy was there already before me.. he was there since 6:45.. we could both sign up for the company I wanted to (they were ok with 2 shadow mentors), but he ended up not to be able to go.. so I was just one who was there today.
Basically what I did was.. working for 4 hours, then follow one person rest of the day.
I didn't expect that they would ask me to work so I was surprised.. but they asked me using SketchUp.. so yeah, I am glad I got used to this program! It was quite easy.. but it was MAC! I really don't use (or haven't used) Mac before.. so Mac OS X fancy feature (like.. if you bring your cursor to the edge.. they do something.. right? lol) teased me a BIG time!!
Anyway, after that work.. we went to a construction site.. and he actually needed to talk to construction workers who had questions for him. It was my first time to see how they communicate.. it was an interesting process. I am not going to explain too much detail.. but I have some pictures from the site.. so here you go.
This is where some residents' courtyard, play-ground and lawn area will be. It is fairly big..I was nervous if something was fallen on me from towers which are still under construction!(I had a helmet though.. first time. :-p)
Yes, we, landscape architects, do design stairs like this.. but I am not good at it yet.. I will practice more in real world, right? I will try not to make uneven stairs.. or each step has different height. hehehehe
Brick-work.. it is interesting how they work..well, I should say impressive. :)
After this.. he explained his past works.. showed me construction details and stuff..
I really appreciate that he spent half day for me taking me around and showing me stuff.. and I found out that he is a friend of my design studio instructor in this term. haha. World is pretty small like that. :-) I was going to ask him how he was doing in school.. but I didn't.. maybe in the future. hehe
Anyway.. I was very very very tired after this 8 hours.. so I took a long nap when I came home.. now... I have tons of homework to do. ugh.
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