Week 2-3 with Mr. Platz (week 3)

Day 1 – Today was a pretty simple, hard, and tiring day where I went outside and fixed up the playground after the storm last weekend. I started by sweeping all of the mulch into piles on the patio and then I scooped it up into buckets and started throwing it back on the playground. Then I evenly distributed the mulch to all the bald spots and spread it out so it looked nice. Even when I had so much mulch there was that much more mulch for me to get everywhere on the playground and basically what I mean by that is I didn’t have enough for everything. So over the span of 5 hours I had cleared the patio, put it back on the playground, and then evenly distributed it. And for another hour after that I checked everything and cleaned up a little bit to make it look nice and that was my gruesome day 1.

Day 2 – The first thing I did was I installed a brand new AED box next to the printer room and that took a decent amount of time but, in the end it’s up there and it’s ready to be used. What took the rest of my day was probably messing with a shed right next to the little kids playground. I had to find places for the unwanted stuff to go and after that I had to “dismantle” the shed. The best part about having to do this was I got to choose how I wanted to “dismantle” it. So my method of choice was absolutely obliterating it with a sledgehammer. I can say that the shed didn’t last long, it didn’t have a chance. Something I didn’t think about until after destroying it was the clean up. To be honest I would say I made a huge mess which you can probably see in the pictures but in the end I would say it was totally worth it. After I had absolutely killed that shed I obviously had to clean it up. I had a bunch of pieces laying around from the holes I had made but that didn’t make the clean up too difficult. I managed somehow to only make 1 trip to the recycling thanks to the power of organization skills and pure luck. After I had tossed it out back I had to clean up the leftover dirt and stuff on the patio. I just grabbed some buckets of water and splashed it clean. That was the end of day 2.

Day 3 – Today was pretty low key thankfully because I was tired and I got a break that I needed. I went around turning on the water for different hose bids because winter was over so all the water can be turned back on. One of the hose bids though wasn’t working properly because there was a bunch of leakage and that was because of the o ring. The o ring is supposed to pack on the stem to keep water from leaking. Today was a pretty low key day because we have bigger plans for tomorrow so tomorrow will be another busy day. I can’t forget the highlight of the day setting up a microwave. That’s how day 3 went.

Day 4 – Today was a road trip day. We started off by getting tables, chairs, and bins and putting them in the gym. After that it was time to get on the road and go on a little adventure. I went with Mr. Platz and we rented a u-haul truck to pick up some tables for trivia night on Friday. We started off with Mrs. Hahn taking us to the u-haul building on Manchester road. When we got there they trapped me in the car and I felt unwanted but when they had come out we were on the road in our u-haul truck. It was about 30 minutes to arrive at our location which was called Weinhardt party rentals. We ordered 20 tables and 20 table cloths and we loaded all of the tables in about 5 – 10 minutes thanks to the help of the workers. After that we were back on the road coming back to the Fulton school and we agreed on our way that old country music is the best music for long drives. When we got back we unloaded tables in groups of 6 on our handy dandy kart and finished moving everything inside in about 15-20 minutes. After we had finished loading everything in the gym I had a couple of things to do on my own. I started off by taking this closet that was outside and “dismantling” it so anybody can guess what that meant. I used the sledgehammer and it didn’t even last more than 2 hits before it was completely in pieces. After I had finished recycling the closet I went back and tossed out a wooden pallet into the trash as well. Today involved mostly lifting and pushing heavy objects but it was pretty fun overall.

Day 5 – Today was a pretty strange day because my project entails helping the school I didn’t do too much today. I spent basically the whole day setting up trivia night. The only cool thing I did today was I had changed some light fixtures in the ceiling and here is how we did it. First off we needed to make some holes in some of the ceiling tiles. After that we slid our new lights into it. Then we proceeded to take down and carefully replace the lights. What made it so hard to do was the sprinklers. Had we even so much as made a vibration too much for the sprinkler it would have set them all off. During the process of this I got to use something that I’ve used before in science class.  I had to use a hot wire meter to see if I was going to burn off my fingers or not. Thankfully I didn’t but I was very very close one time. That concludes my time spent with Mr. Platz. I definitely have learned a lot of life lessons and skills these past 2 weeks and I know it is going to help me in the future