First week and orientations

After I spent the weekend relaxing getting use to the time zone and exploring area I had my first day on the job Monday. I was nervous if my skills could give something back to the company or if I what I learned in Ontario could help me at all in Alberta. But once I arrived at the training center a sat down in a circle with many different summer students all like me nervous and ready to show case there skills. After we went through all of our paperwork I found myself more at ease and ready for the rest of the day. Through the day I met many people all with smiles and excited to meet the new intern. I spent the rest of the day after meeting everybody going over there rule books and codes.

            I awoke the next day all excited and ready for whatever the day could bring me and headed into work. I spent the day going through the mill and taking a tour throughout the camps in the surrounding area and tried to on my ride quiz myself on all the different codes and regulations. My roommate just arrived the night before from Vancouver and once work was done I took him around to explore the area.

            I spent the next two days working on Arcmap and feeling like I was actually doing something really important for Millar Western and really enjoyed myself. I started to make friends in the office and make good impressions on the people around me. I even got invited to go out on road trip to go tear down a beaver dam! This was the first beaver dam I have ever seen and really had fun taken it down and seeing the roads the beaver flooded out come back to normal.

            The last day in the week I spent going over off-road training and ATV training because of the lack of lime stone and rock driving in the woods or through dirt is a very different from Southern Ontario plus this got me out of the office working on maps and really got to enjoy the forest and its surroundings.