TOKTW 2019

TOKTW

This is my “Take Our Kids To Work” reflection. The task is to go to one of my parent’s job and see how it all is in there. I went to the Valley Granite workshop with my dad. There, they prepare granite, cut it, polish it, and install it in people’s homes. I quickly interviewed my dad while in there and here are the results.

Q: What is your job title?

A: Fabricator.

Q: What is your job description?

A: I turn raw stone into shiny, smooth granite.

Q: What are your duties and/or tasks you perform on your job?

A: I polish stone to make it smooth and use cold water to make it shine, the result is granite.

Q: What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas?:

-Training): For this job, you do not really need any special training, you just need to know how the machines operate and there are a lot of safety rules.

-Education): I don’t know if there is actually any education for doing this. Maybe art classes will help here, if you are a designer.

-Experience): You can get experience for this job by doing something like: woodwork. You also have to have a fit body because this job is very tiring.

-Skills and attributes (personal qualities): As I said before, there is no need in any big skills just except of being well-fit.

Q: What are some things you like about this job?

A: It keeps me fit and I can practice and make my engraving skills better. I can also practice my English speaking with my co-workers.

Q: What are some of the things you dislike about this job?

A: The job is very tiring and the cold water and the dust might slowly affect my health.

Q: How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so?

A: I think that in the next 5 years, this granite business is going to stay the same except maybe it will be more technological. Maybe we are going to have polishing machines that polish the stone on their own.

Now, after the interview, I will write down my own reflection to this day and this job.

1. 3 reasons why I liked this job:

-1. As my dad told me, this job keeps workers fit, and you really burn a descent amount of calories in one day like that. I tried polishing a piece of stone, and I succeeded, but it was really tough and the end. Holding that polishing machine while it is working tired my arms strongly enough.

-2. It felt good, being in a small team, where everybody knows each-other and anybody can lend a hand.

-3. This job can also increase your movement accuracy. Granite is something that can break pretty easily, and it does cost quite a lot of money. So when polishing it, you have to be very accurate and not mess it up. The edges and corners have to be rounded up and the flat surfaces-smooth.

2. 3 reasons I dislike this job:

-1. When polishing, you will have to use a lot of cold water, first of all: you can get very sick from doing so. Also, you might accidentally get dust in your eyes and the cold water itself can worsen your vision (and my eyes are already quite bad).

-2. It consumes a lot of energy, and if you work like this 8 hours per day, then you would probably come home and just fall into your bed.

-3. Main reason. I am simply not interested in granite working. I am more into arts. Which means that polishing, cutting, installing stone, does not take even 1% of my interest.

3. This is not the job for me. As I said earlier, I want to work somewhere with arts: author, artist, actor, designer, mangaka, game developer and designer, etc. My dream job is a mangaka: a person who writes and illustrates manga (Japanese comics), and a game developer & designer, for which, I took programming languages and I now know how to code in DOCTYPE HTML and css languages.

4. The value of this project was the experience of actual work. I now know how it is to work on a job and I learned how to polish stone. And it was overall just a fun and interesting experience.

Silver Lining

Silver Lining

I have a few silver linings during this quarantine time.

#1. Because we had more time at home, I started working out every day. My gymnastics gym is closed because of the virus and I realized that I still must stay in shape so then I don’t forget anything and don’t have to come back and learn everything again. Also, because when everything is closed and you can’t go anywhere fun (Cultus lake waterpark, Disneyland), what would come in mind is to watch TV and eat a lot of food (whenever people watch something they want to eat more food), but if I was to do that, I wouldn’t be fit for gym the moment I come back. So I started doing a 2-hour workout daily and try to run 3 kilometers (also daily).

#2. I also took online programming courses and thanks to that now I know how to code in DOCTYPE HTML and CSS. I want to become a programmer in the future and for that, I need to know at least three coding languages. I discovered that coding in html is super easy even though every time I looked at the html coding it always seemed so complicated but it’s actually super simple!

#3. This is surely the most fun thing that my family did during the quarantine. Basically, every week, we had a different country and we learnt about the traditions and symbols etc. For example: Japan: the whole week, we learnt about Japan and its cultures and only ate Japanese food for the whole week. Right now, we are doing an Italian week and we are planning on doing France the next week.

Community Connection

This is a post for a COL assignment. I had to contact a person who is involved in something I am passionate about. I can contact someone that has a job that I want to have in the future, or just someone who shares the same hobby as me. So, I decided to contact Masashi Kishimoto, the creator of the “Naruto” manga series, (you can more aout “Naruto” on my all about me page). Masashi Kishimoto is a manga artist, he was born in Japan and created 72 volumes for the Naruto series. Masashi Kishimoto is very popular (due to the legendary manga the made), so I wasn’t actually expecting him to answer my e-mail (I found his e-mail address on a fan website). Masashi Kishimoto actually did answer it, and honestly, that one of the best moments of my life. So, back to the assignment, my task is to also interview the person that I’m contacting. Here are some links to websites where you can watch all Naruto anime episodes for free: https://www.viz.com/naruto, https://www.viz.com/shonenjump/naruto-chapter-2/chapter/3530?action=read, https://naruto.oasgames.com/en//

Why did I choose to contact Masashi Kishimoto?: because I also love art, and I really want to be a manga creator when I grow up (I am currently working on a manga, but its moving very slowly because it turned out to harder than I imagined). “Naruto” is my favorite manga and anime, so I decided that I want to create something also epic, something that a lot of people will like and remember.

Moving on to the interview, I will post the six questions I asked Masashi Kishimoto and post his answers in his own words. The letter Q will mean: question, and the letter A will mean: answer (from Masashi Kishimoto).

Interview

Q: Why are you passionate about your job?

A: I started dreaming of becoming a manga artist all because of “Dragon Ball”, in high school, I was all about art, I drew during every second of my spare time and once, I even drew an amazing picture on the back of a test answer sheet. I went to art school in Kyushu. What attracted me to “Dragon Ball” is the art and the story but mostly that Akira Toriyama, the author of “Dragon Ball”, was very good at drawing, after seeing “Dragon Ball” is the moment when I wanted to become a manga artist. I loved to draw, I was a professional scribbler.

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Akamaru Jump Magazine. Link: https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_small/13/136525/5136966-2009-02.jpg

Q: What obstacles have you faced to get you where you are today?

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Picture of Naruto. Link: https://render.fineartamerica.com/images/rendered/default/poster/8/10/break/images-medium-5/naruto-two-face-pranav-patel.jpg

A: When I was very young, (sophomore year), I drew a manga called “Karakuri” and submitted it to the Hop Step Award and I was one of the winners but after that, I really didn’t have any idea how to keep going about drawing a manga. I wrote a lot of different kind manga but it all got rejected. After that, I came up with Naruto but it was a complete different story, it was about magic. The story went in to Akamaru Jump and became very popular. But after that, the times of rejection came in again, and everything I drew was rejected. So then I came up with the idea of Ninja and put the characters from the “early Naruto” into the “new and real Naruto”.

Q: What advice would you pass on to someone interested in what you are doing?

A: Well, what I did after I kept getting rejecting, is I decided to make a manga about something I like. I really like ramen, so I started making a book about ramen and the secret ingredient in the soup but then I modified it, and created “Naruto”, so my advice is: draw what you like (just modify (or maybe even don’t) something that you like, and turn it into a manga).

Q: Would you be open to further contact from Riverside and if so, how can someone contact you?

A: I don’t know if I will be open to further contact, but you can contact me on Twitter, my account is @TheKishimoto. I also have an Instagram account so you can always contact me on that, my Instagram is @official.kishi

Q: Why did you choose to do a manga about ninja?

A: I like Japanese things, and I like things like: Ninja, Samurai, so I gave it a try, and made a manga consisting a lot of Japanese stuff in it: ramen, ninja, hieroglyphs, Japanese brush signs, some ninja history and folklore like: Orochimaru is actually a character from the Japanese ninja culture and mythology. The Nine-Tailed Fox is known everywhere in Japan, its part of the Japanese mythology.

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Nine-Tailed Demon Fox. Link: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/naruto/images/b/b2/Kyuubi_attack_on_Konoha.png/revision/latest?cb=20150728194030

Q: Was Konohagakure inspired by an actual place?

A: Konohagakure was inspired by my home town. I lived most of my life. It was almost like a Self-Defence Force base and in had lots of training grounds around it. So everything like, special forces, three man cells were inspired by this.

This was the end of my Interview with Masashi Kishimoto. Here are some pictures of him and the “Naruto” series. From his interview, I learned that when trying to make something big, (like a manga), you will have to face lots of hard obstacles but there is always an unexpected resolution to all of them.

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Pouvoir

Pouvoir: que-es que le mot pouvoir signifie pour moi.

Pour moi, pouvoir c’est quand quel qu’un a d’influence sur les autres. Quel qu’un riche, intelligent, bien éduquée, a d’influence sur les autres et les autres lui: voter pour president, admire, idolâtrer. Pouvoir est quand quel qu’un peut contrôler les autres, c’est quand il y a un chef qui contrôle tous.

Quel qu’un peut obtenir de pouvoir par être très intelligent et être vote pour president ou un premiere ministre. Un peut obtenir de pouvoir si il ou elle a des connections avec les politiques.

Qui a de pouvoir sur moi.

Je pense que, maintenant, je suis influence par la Renne Elizabeth II, parce-que j’habite au Canada, et Canada est contrôler par la Renne. Mais si je vais aller dans une pays différente, je vais être influence par un autre president.

J’ai du pouvoir sur qui.

J’ai du pouvoir sur les enfants qui j’ai besoin d’enseigne dans mon club des gymnastiques. Ces enfants ont besoin de fait tous que je dire, et aussi, ces enfants sont influencer par moi parce-que je suis plus professionnel.

Ça c’est le personne qui a beaucoup de pouvoir.

 

Mystery Powder Lab

A week ago, Ms. Brandsma’s block C science 9 class, did an activity, where us (students) had to look at five different unknown powders and try figuring out what those powders are, then we looked at another two powders, and each of those powders was made up of two other ones. We had to experiment with the powders and figure out the mystery ones. The five unknown powders turned out to be: sugar, salt, flour, and baking soda. To experiment we: put water in the powders, we heated the powders, we dropped universal indicators in the powders. Me and my partner didn’t have time to do the Iodine solution and vinegar, but we still figured out the two mystery powders.  This is the link to the chart that I filled out to experiment, it has experimenting data for each powder and experiment.

Difference between physical change and chemical change, physical change is when something causes a chemical substance to change without changing it’s chemical materials, chemical change is when a chemical substance combines with another chemical substance and forms a new chemical substance.

Now I will write down the data for powder D: appearance: this powder wasn’t as grainy as powders a and b, it is more powdery and not very white, it has a little bit of brown in it, smells like flour. Water: the second experiment is to put a drop of water in to the powder, powder D turned milky white and had a brown spot in it, the powder sank to the bottom although a tiny part of dissolved and changed the water a little bit. Heating in aluminum foil: third experiment is to make aluminum foil cups and heat the powder in them, powder D started  forming smoke which is a chemical change, but everything else stayed the same.

 

 

How Things Work

In Mrs. Brandsma’s science 9 class, we had a project about electricity. The goal was to pick something that uses or produces electricity, make a model of it, and explain how it works. Me and my partner picked nuclear power plants. We researched how power plants work and even researched the one that exploded in Chernobyl, Pripyat. We decided to make the model in Minecraft because in Minecraft (a game where you can build things out of different blocks) you can make creative and detailed things, and it’s also good for model building projects, although Minecraft was challenging because of how big power plants are, but we managed to make it. We made every single building in a power plant and put labels everywhere explaining which part does what.

What is the purpose of a power plant?

The purpose of power plant is to generate electricity using other energy sources. Nuclear power plants use more than one generators to produce the electricity. Power plants are very effective since of how powerful they are but are still too dangerous. Because other electric power producers aren’t powerful enough, people need to use the Nuclear Power Plants.

How does a Power Plant work?

First of all, to produce electric energy, the power plant needs heat. Heat is being produced with coal, oil, natural gas, or nuclear energy. The heat then, is used to boil the water to produce steam. The steam is put under high pressure to spin the turbine. When the turbine is spinning, it interacts with a system of magnets and produces electricity, then, the electricity runs through electric wires to go into homes, public places, etc. Here are some pictures of the power plant parts that take a very important space.

 

  This is the main building that has the control rods, the pressure tanks (where the steam is put) the “oven” where the heat is made.

Here is the reactor pressure vessel which contains the nuclear fuel core. The pipe that you can see in the picture is full of water that will be boiled and turned into steam.

Here is a steam generator. It is used to create the steam that will be put under pressure. And the big pipe is full of steam.

In here, we have the control rod which is used for safety. The control rod is supposed to control the nuclear fission. Then, there’s the pressure tank, where the steam is put to spin the turbine.

This big building is the turbine that is being spun by the steam. The turbine then interacts with a magnetic system and creates electricity.

 

Evaluation: the strength of a nuclear power plant is that it produces a lot of electric energy, but the weaknesses are that: if something goes out of control, the consequences might be super bad, something such as: radiation going in the environment or a big explosion. Also, another weakness is that a power plant is not so environmentally friendly.

In my opinion, a nuclear power plant solves it’s problem very well. It produces a lot of electricity that we can use day and night.