Internship

While most people are enjoying their wonderful summer vacation, I am having an internship. Well, it turned out that from this year on, internship in 2nd year(which I am now in) is going to be a requirement to graduate at my school. And, it has started today, for me. What am I going to do during the intership? I mean, what can I do with just little experience of mine of 2 years at school to do something in a place where people do REAL things.

It wasn't that bad, somehow. I was sent to an Architecture Design Office along with one of classmates (usually, each student is going to different places, but as I'm a foreign student, the teacher assigns another Japanese to come along in case I would need any helps, esp the translation, haha). The Office is called the ''Yellow Submarine United Design Office'', located in Tokyo, Nakano, which takes me about half an hour from home.
Speaking of home, I am now moving into my Host Family's house for this 2 weeks period of internship because their house is near the train station. I actually prefer staying out of home (acturally dorm :P) once in a while because I can fresh up my mind by seeing new things and meeting different people everyday, not just sitting in the 10 square meters room looking into the PC screen almost 24/7, that's just too much.

By the way, the internship started this morning, and I pratically moved in here (my host family's house) since yesterday. I may not have mentioned before, but my host mother is a really good cook, I enjoy every meal she cooks :).
Anyway, before today, I once went to greet people at the Office with my teacher who introduced us to them, and them to us. On that they, we were told to come to the office today (July 20th) at 10am as they'll explain details about what they gonna make us do over there. At first, I thought, 10am? or maybe it's just the first day.
Well, as I said before, we're having little knowledge over the thing, we obviously couldn't help much on what they're doing, so the work for us was ''Making Building Models''. Not bad, right? We used to build models too for our assignments at school, at least once a semester, but the thing is we usually make it in big scale 1/50 or 1/30, but this time it's 1/100, it's very small and as it is going to be an actual building, detail plans and everything were drawn, and the dimension is small, so it was pretty hard.
Usually, they're having lunch break from 1 to 2pm and working till about 6:30pm. I also learnt to know that 10am is the time they start work everyday, and it's a common things for Tokyo employee.

It was a great day, though. Making building model is fun but I hope I'm not doing it these whole 2 weeks cos I'm gonna hate it. Speaking about life as worker, I began to know some of it now. Sitting in the office the whole day with 1 hour lunch break, that's kinda boring cos if we are students, we have many different subjects catch up everyday, not doing the same thing everyday as working. However, the worst part of it is commuting to work. It takes alot of time and money and energy. The most tiring time for me today was it. Just go and come back took me 3 hours and $15... sigh...

Well, tomorrow I'm planning to have dinner and go for a walk around Nakano. Can't wait to see what's going on. :)