Day 3 : Running in the Rain

    I don't really like admitting it but i'm kind of a stubborn person, I don't like to admit that I am wrong and I sort of have this 'I'm better than you' complex going on inside. Well if people from Kitamat tell you that weather can change fast and that the change is usually rain... They aren't lying, take it from a guy knows. So after leaving this morning for a run it was slightly raining. By the time I had got to the bridge into the town of Kitamat I could have won the spring break wet t-shirt contest hands down. Nevertheless I had an awesome time. Breakfast was the same as yesterday, eggs and salsa with oatmeal and nice hot cup of black. I figured I need a nice hearty breakfast for my first day into actual site...... Oh wait! I still have to sit in a classroom for yet another orientation. Though, I must say, this one did start with some charming Australian people. Side note I have come to realize Kitamat is a lot like a ski town it has a lot of Aussie's working in it but instead of working for the locals like in a ski town, the locals work for them. Anyways back to the classroom. After the Aussie's had a chance to speak about the same thing that we had just heard the day before. We had the wonderful privilege to watch this wonderful film on hazardous materials from the beginning of film and better yet it was a whole hour long and just kept you on the edge of your chair. This was followed by yet another orientation and the thing with orientations is that you have to be exciting and quick on your feet well still delivering the necessary information. If you can't manage this and you are constantly reading from the slides you are going to lose control. These grown men and women that you have sitting in the classroom aren't exactly the most well behaved bunch in the world. A good example would be if you took that one kid from your grade school class that could not never stay still and was always be disruptive and striving for attention. Now imagine if we took them from schools all over the world and put the all in one room. And now just put the cherry on the cake we add the fact the none of these kids respect this person, there job or the information that they are trying to give you. Seems like hell doesn't it. Now don't get me wrong I don't enjoy being there and I don't like hearing there info over and over again but its this lady's job and its not easy, I have been there. Any who this girl we had this morning was only a month in and she had obviously not been studying this orientation so a complete loss of control. Old man asking for her phone number, others leaving there room number for her but mostly just chatting to one another and in complete disregard that there was even a presentation going on. After a couple painful hours we were told that we would soon be leaving to meet our bosses and take a site tour. Well that was just a plain lie; I had enough time to go back to camp grab some stuff from my room and another bag of lunch then continue to wait for two hours. When we finally caught our bus into site, it was the first time you could fully appreciate the magnitude of the operation. The site is massive there were machines and buildings everywhere. People were suspended hundreds of feet in the air. And yet despite the enormity of the operations no one seemed panicked or cramped, well besides the warehouse guys at the tools and gear shed; they were very busy. On our tour of the site we got to all around the site which includes Pot Line A which is the nearest building to completion. Inside building A is know classified as an iP Zone which means that inside there is intellectual property that we have signed off not to disclose to the public and other companies. Basically meaning no pictures and phones. Which sucks because it was quite the sight. Aluminium is made using a process called the Hall-Heroult process which basically means they take the raw alumina, which comes in a powdered form, and apply massive amounts of electricity to it, like 360000 volts, and turn it into molten aluminum. Very cool stuff, if you want info you can take this link right here. So after tucking away my cool construction stuff boner and finishing our site tour we sat around for another two hours, apparently we do that lots here, and went back to camp where I sit here now typing to you and listening to Van Morrison. And on the note I think i'm going to take a Moondance down to the rec hall for a veggies and dip.                              
                                                      Peace Out, Tanner (I wish I had purposely spelled grammar wrong)