Week 3

  My third day of work experience has come and gone already. It started off as usual. I came into the shop at 9.55 and started on my tasks of dusting the pianos, sweeping the floors cleaning the practice rooms etc. I was then asked to tune the violins. I had never done this before so I enjoyed learning this new skill. My supervisor explained to me the name of each string and how to tune it with the tuner. He assured me that it was ok if I accidently broke a string as it was common but luckily that didn't happen.It was difficult at first because I had only ever tuned guitar before this.  The problem I found with it was that it was very easy to  unravel the string completely leaving you back at square one and having to start all over again. However soon enough I got the hang of it and it became a lot easier.  The last task I was asked to do was to put away a box of stock on the shelves. The box of stock contained all different products so it was slightly time consuming but I got it done eventually.

Week 2

    Our second day of Work Experience has come and gone already and I have really started to feel more comfortable in my work placement. 
    I arrived at 9.50 am with time to spare. I completed the jobs that have to be done every morning like dusting the piano, sweeping the floor, tuning the guitars etc. I was then asked to label CDs with the price. Afterwards I organized all the music books on the shelves.
    My supervisor left early that day so there wasn't much to be done after he left as all the workers were too busy with their own work to try find us something to do. I helped some customers out if they were looking for music books or anything else and answered their questions to the best of my ability but sometimes I had to refer them to the people who work there if I did not know the answer.
    That's all the news of my second day at work experience and I'm looking forward to my next.

First day at work experience

   On Wednesday I started my work experience in Walton's music shop. Everything went really well. I got the bus into town and arrived at Walton's in time for 10 o'clock.  There I met my supervisors and he told me what tasks were to be done every morning. After they were completed I moved on to my next task. As there were four work experience people, including me, there wasn't that much to be done. If there was a time that I wasn't doing much I tuned the guitars, as I was instructed earlier in the morning that they should all be in tune for people to play them. Overall I had a very smooth day and all the people I was working with were friendly and helpful.