This week is probably my craziest week. Monday and Wednesday, I was working at my church’s Preschool in the mornings and then on Tuesday I went to Monsanto’s Chesterfield site. Tomorrow I will go to the Monsanto in Creve Coeur, which is where most of their regulatory teams are located now, but that is in the process of being changed since they want everything to be more centralized at the Chesterfield location. On Friday, I will take the US History AP in the morning and since I would have gone to the preschool that day before I decided to take the test, I will have the rest of my day “free,” but I expect that I’ll find something to fill my time with.
My time at the Preschool has been nice. I’ve helped out there before so it was kind of nice to do a more familiar thing. On Monday, I organized part of their massive closet and I think I made it better. Today, I helped out my mom. The two other teachers that work with her on Wednesday were trapped because of the flood, so I and another substitute were with my mom to take care of all those kids. That was pretty fun, but I got tired, especially during our indoor recess time.
At Monsanto, I shadowed people. I mostly talked to lab scientists, all of whom were very interesting and fun. Two of them were especially fun and we got coffee and relaxed in their office, talking about the science behind the different steps in the overarching process that Monsanto goes through to get their products. They both have kids a little younger than me and so they could explain what they were doing in ways that were much easier for me to understand; the other scientists explained their work well, I just had to think harder and longer to comprehend what they were saying.
My dad had also just started working at Monsanto so he met up with Mr. Duff and me for lunch in the café (where the guy who served me was super nice by the way, guessing that it was my “first day”). That was neat and a nice, comfortable break for me in my day stuffed with one shadowing after another. The whole day was incredible, though somewhat exhausting, and I definitely learned a lot.
Tomorrow, I will have the day at Creve Coeur and I’m excited. I’m guessing that it’ll be relatively different from my day at Chesterfield, just since I’m pretty sure that I’ll be shadowing fewer lab scientists.