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My Reflection

Originally, at the beginning of this project, Sherin and I had actually planned to work as a three with Carina. This group didn't last. Carina decided to go off and do Aboriginal Culture with John, so Sherin and I decided to do the State Library as a group of two. This worked out better than we would have thought. When we were planning our our wikis in the week before CBD, we both had our concerns. The State Library of Victoria was a smaller subject than most and the information wasn't as vast as the other groups. We did however have the actual building as a reference and over the course of this project we visited Victoria's State Library several times.

However, this turned out a lot better than I thought it would and Sherin and I have worked our hearts out on this project. I think we can both proudly say that our time in Melbourne's CBD was well spent and that we achieved something worth notice. As a team, we worked great together and managed to get all our wiki pages finished by the end of our second last week at the city campus.

But it's not just the final project that was worth while. I've learnt a lot over our time frame in the city and would gladly go through it again. My confidence in using public transport has improved, as has my general knowledge of the city. I've overcome a lot of fears during this time, including a fear of height on the Eureka Sky-Deck (well, maybe not quite) and nearly drowned at the City Baths, but strangely enough, I'd be more than happy to go back and do it again.

The excursions that we went on were both educational and enjoyable (to mention a few, the Melbourne Gaol Tour and the Big Issue) and we got around to seeing a great variety of Melbourne's CBD. Of course, it would be almost impossible to discover everything about Melbourne, but the five weeks we had allocated here were brilliant. It was a nice change of environment with more freedom for both us students and the teachers and in my opinion, there's not a single one of us that didn't have a wonderful time.

Overall, this city experience has been great and I've really enjoyed our time here at Etihad Stadium.

Nicola

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