I spent two weeks in Wilton, Connecticut staying with my aunt and her family. My aunt is an architect and architecture is a career path that I am seriously considering, so it made lots of sense to spend a week with her in her office. The first two days I was working on CAD just getting used to the software and I was given dimensions of a garage that is being turned into a man cave/office that is part of a project that the firm was working on. It was frustrating at first before I got my head around the basics of the programme but once I did it was actually enjoyable. Reading the dimensions and figuring out the layout of the plans. Doing DCG definitely helped me out. One day I went out to measure the dimensions of a house that is getting renovations on it so the drafter could draw the plans on CAD using what we got. The hardest thing about it was adjusting from the metric system to inches and feet. That threw me a bit. But I figured it out eventually. I'm really glad I did a week with an architect because I can see myself pursuing it as a career and really enjoying it.
The next week I went into work with my uncle in a yacht club where he's the executive chief. I sent the time in the kitchen preparing food and helping plate food when a wedding/ party or banquet was on which was three nights out of five. That was the most enjoyable in my opinion. The kitchen went really quite and serious and everything had to be placed down perfectly. Every plate had the match the next one. It all had to be done at a fast pace. We got 100 plates from nothing to an amazing looking meal in front of customers in five minutes. I also for the most part prepared food for the next for days ahead. Every meal is planned out way ahead of time so if anything wrong is going to happen there is three or four emergency plans. A working kitchen is a crazy place, it's fun and exciting but high stress environment with lots of load noises and lots of heat and danger all around. I really enjoyed it but I can never see myself working in a kitchen for very long, apart from the fact that three different people in the kitchen told me to stay well away, long hours and lots of shouting. I'm very glad a did the week though, it's good to have on my CV for a summer job.
The rest of the trip was brilliant. I spent a day in NYC on my own. Where I walked around the east village and saw an anti-gun rally in Washington square. New York is amazing, the atmosphere and hustle and bustle is like no where else. I cant wait to go back.