Thursday 30th January 2014

It was another stressful day of the create stage. According to the plan, it mentions that I was supposed to be working on; draw/ sketch the parts of the rack on my wood. However, since I had completed this task, I continued to cut the materials. Using the jigsaw this time, I further divided my wood into the three compartments and separated/ cut them out. Though my cutting wasn't straight and was very rough since I was pretty much in a hurry as my they were people who behind in the line giving pressure to do faster. It was also a lot of effort and patience taken for waiting in line for the jigsaw. Since I wanted to continue working, I came to the d.t lab from 4 - 4:30 in the afternoon whereby a cut my compartments more smoothly from the sides and also used a planer to level the sides and make it smooth since the sander is not available.I was glad and ecstatic with the pace of which I am working at and hopefully I will be able to finish the product on time.

The challenges that I faced was that there was a a lot of time wasted whilst standing in the queue waiting for my turn and secondly there was usually a lot of pressure from my peers that were in line forcing me to hurry up. I overcame these challenges by finding a suitable time which was home time, to come work peacefully and continue with my work. What I want to improve on in the coming lessons is to work at my own pace and work calmly and with no stress or pressure from my peers as I also have a right like all of them to utilize the tools in the d.t lab and might also lead to injuries if I rush too much. I managed to utilize some of my skills today namely patience skills, time-management and organizational skills, wood cutting skills and sanding skills. What I didn't like about this lesson was that people often took a lot of time cutting their materials which sometimes really irritated me and some also skipped the line that sometimes got be angry. However, in general I am pleased that I am more or less working along with the plan and I am excited to continue making my product.