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This blog is about my trip to Canada from February till the end of July. The reason I have this blog is that my family/ friends and teachers can read what I have been up to.
I'll write about my preperations, flight, what I have learned at the internship company as well as any side trips.


Thursday, April 18, 2013

Week 1: Thursday - Day 2

The drive to Lethbridge was a lot easier now. I can now find it on my own instead of relying on the GPS. When I arrived I had to wait a bit, but could set up my laptop in the meantime and read things through. Now my internship document is all done and approved by the supervisor. Just sent it off to my teacher.
After that my HDD is getting a lot of video footage which I will have to edit in the future. The transfering process took a long time as it's 110 GB.

The supervisor was about to leave for a radio job so I would have to find an activity for me to do in that hour. I said I could still work on some lines I owe to people. He got curious and listened to me speak in a Skyrim mod. He was actually impressed on how I spoke and delivered the lines so that makes me very happy.

I edited some lines in the hour he was gone and soon another intern showed up at the door. It was a bit awkward at first as I stumbled on my words, but eventually it gotten better.
The intern and I had to learn how to hook up microphones on the mixer and that is what we had to do the afternoon.
I learned what microphones needed phantom power. Nearly all except for a thick rounded mic.
And next to that I learned the names of a few cables, for example the xlr cable which has a male amd female side (holes and things that stick out) and a quarter inch cable.
My job was to unwrap the cables and to hook the right microphone in the right number together with the intern. Later I had to hook in quarter inch cables on each number on the mixer. That+s what I´ll have to do tomorrow as well.
But something went wrong with the mixer. It couldn't pick up any signals anymore, so we called it a day.

The rest of the day I worked on the assurance letter as I can't get any money back as they state I had to cancel my trip if I knew my visa wouldn´t come. So I clearly stated that if the visa did come before my trip that I wouldn´t have any problems. Long story though.

Later I worked on some lines for a Skyrim mod and went to bed at 10. 

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