Stop+20+-+Our+Reflections+-+Adela,+Mere+&+Rendah

Wow, there aren't many word that can describe all that i've learned, experienced and felt throughout our CBD experience. Here is my quick summary of each week WEEK 1. Mere, Rendah and I are all working together, and we are covering tourism in Melbourne's CBD. We have chosen to set our wiki up in a journal setting, where each 'day/stop' covers a different attraction or topic, we felt we could easily handel the task of 20 days/stops, we had a lot to learn. Every morning we are catching the train into Southern Cross Station has been a great experience, our new room in Ethihad Stadium is a great space. The best thing i've done all week would've had to have been going up the Eureka Tower, I even went out on the edge and looked down, again, WOW! On Thursday we went on our first our first mini excursion, Rendah's mum came in and took us out to Federation Square, we went into ACMI and had a look around, it's great you should go look. On Friday we went out to the city bathes, all the year 8's in one pool for an hour equals way too much fun. WEEK 2. Creepy, we were walking around the Old Melbourne Gaol, all of the history is scary and rather confronting. Then a tour around the state library, wow a busy week, but I'm glad I've been able to go on these excursions, they have all taught me somehting different. My Highlight of this week would have to be when my mum came in and took us all three of us out to; Fed Square, China Town, Royal arcade and down Degeraves Street. Again we went to the city bathes, it was great! WEEK 3. We were about half a class on Monday, as it was the day before Cup, but we still had a great day and even watched the Cup day parade. This week we had a stronger focus on work and putting everything up onto the pages but we still had fun and even went over to the Immagration Museum. WEEK 4. This was one of the best weeks, we went to the Big Issue was a great experience where we all learned about treating each other equally, and I found this to be a really great experience. We also went over to the Botanic Gardens. This week was also full of discussion; we were worrying about getting all of the 20 pages complete in time, we were considering cutting down to 15 pages, but we were still determined to make our goal, ten pages down, and ten to go. City River Cruises, thank you. I had so much fun cruising down the Yarra, and getting a different view of Melbourne. And what a way to finish the week, we went swimming again. I love going to pool to cool off after a long week. WEEK 5. OMG, final week already! This has been the best experience, I have had such a great time. To finish off our wonderful city experience we went ice skating, had a family morning tea, and surprise, surprise we went swimming, a welcome tradition. I have had the best time and I hope all that I have learned has shown through in my work.
 * Adela’s Reflection.... **

**Rendah’s Reflection** ===﻿CBD is amazing. It has only taken me 5 weeks to learn nearly everything you'd want to know about our marvelous Melbourne city. I'm always in the city on a weekend but until i was in the cbd I still did not know alot about the city and all the roads and now I am so confident with the layout and know so much about the history. We have been to so many great excursions and some of which i know I would have never been to withouy being in the cbd. It has been great working on the wiki because it has helped so much in knowing things about my own city and making a journal with information for tourists has helped me aswell. Going on the yarra river cruise was so much fun because we also learnt about different buildings and landmarks. The Big Issue was a great experience, we learnt the real story behind what the BIg Issue really is and why there is need for it. I never really thought about it even thou i have seen so many people selling the magazine. === ===These are the types of excursions we had, we went to places not just to have some fun but to learn a great deal of things. I enjoyed goung on mini excursions with my group because we could choose which places we wanted to go to and dicover things by ourselfs. We didn't need to waste our money on any tours because we found that we discovered way more hidden secrets on our own and when we compared what we had found with another group that actually went on a hidden secrets tour. My experience in the cbd was great, it felt good knowing that you didn't have to go to school everyday and sit in a class doing work. Sure we did work while in the city but we had so much freedom to go out at lunch, organise our own excursions and just go out and have fun. ===


Over the past 5 weeks I have developed countless skills that I will harness in the future and I’m appreciative of the time I’ve spent in the city. I have learnt important things whilst in the CBD. At the Big Issue and at the Immigration Museum I learnt to be grateful for the time we live in and the morals that we hold as a society and to appreciate what I have. Although we don’t live in a model society there are still chances available for those who have been marginalized as well as those fleeing war and persecution. I can cherish the standard of living that I have, I’m not an heiress but I have a lot more than most people on this planet and just buy buying a magazine I can help someone’s life and help them get back on track. Having a huge number of resources doesn’t mean they contain the right information and to never over stretch myself, aim high but expect compromise. The excursions delivered a needed break, and brought numerous memories and enjoyment. The medieval wiki helped me so much in the CBD. I knew about the layout and I developed skills I used on a daily basis. I loved how much trust we were granted and how we could be independent just with some guidelines like the freedom of mostly unsupervised lunch was great. Ice-skating at the Icehouse was extremely fun, especially with the experience I have with ice-skating. The mini excursions my group and I undertook generated great memories as well. I’m really appreciative of this experience as schools might have city experience. I think writing the reflections every week was a good way to unload about the events of the previous week. Swiming, alomost, every friday, was another great way to end the week. Looking back I probably would've started writing on the wiki earlier but I'm happy with the end result. 
 * Mere's Reflection... **