Post # 8

In the office...

Busy... busy... busy!!

Definitely one of the busiest weeks this year. Also having to spend the whole weekend on work - preparing my online portfolio was a mission. And then to get to work with even more projects to do... working to jobs is not easy, but it is exciting and i learn so much from this experience.

Preparing my online portfolio was such an enormous effort - in a good way. The preparatory work i had done before finalizing my portfolio this weekend, I realized, was not enough. Therefor lots of sacrifice of sleep was definitely needed. But i managed to get my portfolio up and ready!

I just realized this is the 6th month going for my office experience... Only 4 more months and the minimum requirements for my practical experience is complete! But yes, it is always good to exceed above the minimum requirements - as I'm always told.

This Saturday, Mr lamb and I were not able to work - as I've mentioned. However he had given me a task to do during the week and complete by this Saturday. I've managed to finish half of it. So, tonight I will complete a full set of local authority drawings for the Wessels family; have him check it on Saturday and he will then have a meeting set on Wednesday with the client.

The week at Noel's office was a bit of a breather. I am assigned to two design projects which I had just started on. The one project involves changes on the property Noel currently lives on - Sussex Street. This project is to demolish his current house and to build 3 flats in its place - as I've spoken about in my previous post. The other involves a small extension to a house situated not too far from the office - 3rd Avenue, Claremont. Currently, i am still draughting up the existing plans, using plans that were requested from the council (I never knew it costs that much to request plans - R94?). By next week we'd probably get into the design and planning process.

Thanks again,

Rukiya.