Date: April 19, 2008 [Saturday]
Morning
Time In: 8:00 AM
Time Out: 12:00 PM
Afternoon
Time In: 1:00 PM
Time Out: 5:00 PM
I have officially started my on-the-job training today. I arrived at the site at around 7:45am. I immediately searched for the entrance gate and waited for my classmate. At around 7:55am, we entered the tiny galvanized iron sheet gate along P. Larrazabal St. and asked for inquiries about the Project Manager. After an hour of waiting, Archt. Ambos came, and oriented us with some basic rules and policies regarding safety, and other important matters. The project was a Proposed Cebu Doctor’s University Dormitory which is composed of three four-storey buildings. The project is about to finish in three months time. We were given an attendance sheet where we will be logging in and out daily to have our training hours recorded.
Few minutes after, we were somehow busy with our tour around the site. We were taken to the third floor where we observed the pouring of concrete on the adjacent building. We were also taken to the ground floor to take a look into some of its finished rooms and the on-going excavation for the cistern.
During the afternoon, we were filled with paper works and some computations on lengths of beams and girders, total volume of beams and girders on the fourth level of building 2 and the volume of the two gutters on the roof level of building 1 and 2 along grid 2 and 3, respectively.
The day was filled with more or less few paper works and a little boredom. It was our first day though and the engineers promised a lot more work this Monday… I just hope it won’t be tougher..
