First Day at Work

First of all, happy new year everyone! I hope you all had a great new year's day. Better enjoy the rest of the week because school starts again next week! I spent new year's eve with Hanson riding the skytrain for free all around Vancouver and the lower mainland. When I got home that night, my mom told me that my dad was in the hospital. Apparently his intestine got infected from something that he ate. He spent all 24 hours of his new year's at the hospital. So sad..

So my first co-op workterm started today and cut my vacation short by a week. I recieved an email a couple of days ago telling me to arrive at Business Objects at 9:30am. So I thought that getting on the bus at 8:00am would be enough time for me to get there since it only takes 40 minutes to get to downtown. However, I missed the 8:00 bus. I thought that it'd be ok because it's still rush hour and busses come by more. But little did I know that rush hour actually ENDS at 8:00. I waited for the bus for 30 minutes and called my mom. My mom didn't want me to be late so she decided to drive me there.

When I got there, they gave me a stack of papers to fill out. After that, we were brought to the third floor where we (as in all co-op students) had breakfast. We introduced ourselves one by one and then played a celebrity ice-breaker game (by the way, I was Stephen Harper). After that, we were put in groups to come up with a product called "The Mooper Dooper"; it can be anything we want. We were required to be creative. Afterwards, we were required to come up with a skit to promote our product. I thought it was quite fun. Afterwards, I was shown my desk. I have THREE COMPUTERS and TWO MONITORS. At first I thought that I had to share my desk with someone because I didn't understand why I had two monitors. Apparently, one's for email and researching and the other one is for testing. I thought it was quite neat.

So this is going to be my second home for the next 8 months...