This week I met my new Work Experience employer, Ken. Firstly I had to fill out a health and safety form. This there are ongoing collage exams therefore, there went many labs to set up or experiments to do. So for the first part of the morning myself and Ruth organised all of the absent notes for the first years in the chemistry department.
We had a coffee break at 11:00 and afterwards we met with Ria who brought us over to one of the labs. We had to 2.5g of KOH into small containers. After, we set up the rest of the lab for a leaving cert revision coarse.
When we finished, Ria demonstrated a how to make soap. Once she had finished Ruth and I got to do the experiment ourselves. The experiment was a success! Although the theory behind it was quite advanced, it eventually made sense when Ria explained it to us in detail. It was just a more advanced version of our junior cert distillation experiment. WE learned how the reflex is formed and what the purpose of each chemical was.
Overall I really enjoyed my first day of work experience and I felt that I learned a great deal. I found it very interesting. I also discovered that chemistry isn't the easiest subject in the world, that it involves quite a lot of understanding. However, I am already sure that I want to study the subject for my Leaving Cert.
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