On take your grade 9 to work day I got the chance to visit both my mom and my dads work. My dad is a highschool PE teacher at riverside and at his work I first got to attend his hockey academy class where it was me playing some hockey with a bunch of grade 10/11 boys. I then got to go to my dads weight training class and we played some games in the gym. next I went to see my mom at her work, she works at surrey memorial hospital and I got a tour of the place and a rundown of what she does in a day.

1. What did you hear, see, smell, and feel in the work environment?

One thing I heard when I went to riverside was all the languages that people spoke in my dads weight training class. At my moms work I saw a guy whose skin had turned yellow due to liver disease. i also got to use a vain finder that doctors use to locate someone’s vein when they can’t see it with the naked eye and surprisingly it felt like nothing.

2. What about the environment would motivate you to wake up every day to attend work? Why?

At my dads work it’s so fun and the students are so nice, and I would love to wake up every morning to see everyone, it is such a positive environment. At my moms work she gets to same lives and that alone would be amazing.

3. What about the work environment would discourage you from waking up every day to attend work? Why?

At both of my parents work the mornings are very early and the work can be very hard which would make it harder to get up everyday.

4. What is ONE thing you found interesting about your workplace visit? Why?

At my dads work it interested me how different his school was to ours even though they’re in the same district. They have a communal lunch, so they get to do intermural activities and the school is so much more open and friendly. At my moms work I found it interesting how little room there was for every patient, some even had to sleep in the hallways, and it made me realize how important it is to not only donate to children’s hospital but to also donate to the hospitals people don’t think about who have even more patients including children.