Capstone Project Day 2

Time Spent: 4 Hours
Total Time: 8 Hours

Today at Union Street Garage I got work with Joel again but instead of working on fixing cars, we were doing smog checks. A smog is a test done on the car to see the types of chemicals it is letting out in the atmosphere. When we are doing smogs we have to make sure that all the components of the car are working perfectly and aren't letting harmful chemicals out. So first you have to check under the hood of the car to make sure there are no added parts to the car that can affect the car, that there are no tears or damages done to any part and if there is any leaks. After you check for that you have to make sure there are no mechanical problems and by doing that you are checking the car is working good. While you are running the car you have to make sure that there isn't any black smoke comming out of the exhaust pipe. If there is anything wrong with the car then the mechanics have to fail the car and the car cannot be driven on the streets. Luckily there were no cars that didn't pass today because it would suck to have to tell the driver that he can't drive his car on the street. It was todat learning about what look for when doing a smog, hopefully next time I can work on cars again and learn more.

Capstone Project Day 1

Time spent: 4 Hours
Total Time: 4 Hours

Today is my first day at Union Street Garage, I got to meet all the mechanics and find out a little about each one. Theres one mechanic that I was assigned to and his name his Joey. He was teaching me about what goes on in the shop and what they have to do to each car that comes in. He was telling me that most of the cars that come in they have to do a full service. A full service is making sure the car runs great, check the breaks, wheel, tire pressure, engine and change the oil. So for the first time i got to learn how to do all that on my own. Doing a full service to them is an easy task because they do it all the time but it gets hard when something is wrong with the car. One f the cars that came in today the breaks were worn out. So it usually take about a half an hour to forty five minutes to do a full service but when something is wrong with the car it turns into an hour and half job. When I was working on the breaks i had to be really careful about where I put each part because if I didn't put each part in the correct spot the breaks wouldn't work properly. I had a great first day today and would like to learn more about the parts of a car and how each part works. Hopefully next time I can learn more about doing a smog on a car.

Personal Narrative

           Have you ever loved someone so much, but you did not realize how much you did until they were out of your life. When I was a kid everyone in my family lived in the U.S. In 2002 my grandma and grampa decided to move back to Jordan to live a more stable life. When they moved back I didn't realize how much I would missed them and how much they were apart of my life. My grandma was a like a second mom to me, as I was growing she was the one who took care of me and fed me each day. My Parents had work everyday so it made it hard for my brother, my sister and I to be able to spend time with them as much as we would have liked too. So we would spend most of our days with our grandparents. It devastated me  when they decided to leave the U.S.

            My gramparents had always been in my life and seeing them leave had changed me. I had changed because it had never crossed my mind that they would ever decide to leave. I feel that I have never gotten as close to someone as I did my gramparents. After they had left I cried for many days because I knew that wouldn't be able to see them for a long period of time. I believe that this made me who I am today in away, I try not to get my hopes up as much because there's always that feeling that someone will leave me or will turn their back on me. After four years of not being able to see them my family decide on going down to Jordan to go visit them. When we arrived it was like they had never left. I feel that seeing my gramparent and talking to them about why they had left had helped me cope with the situation of them leaving.

         I woukld like to say that my life had changed since my experience with my gramparents. I have become a better person and had decide to trust in people more instead of not letting them in my life. After we say my gramparents that year, a year later my grampa died and even though i was devastated I still remmeber what he taught me about being a strong person and never letting people put me down.