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Deep's Reflection

 I have used this five week opportunity to enjoy the city and learn about its interesting history. This was the most enjoyable program in whole secondary teaching for me. I enjoyed every part of this program in the CBD and have learned so much about Melbourne City every day. I think it was really good to work on our topics about Melbourne in our groups on Wiki spaces. This has been a program in which we did not just learn about Melbourne theoretically but we learned how to travel in public transport, how to behave in the city and how to make a web page on computer. I was working with Peter for this project and I think that we were great working together; we worked really productively and we also had lots of fun together. We both listened to each other and agreed on a result without any arguments.

My highlight for this program was going to excursions so many times. By going on excursions with the class I looked at some fantastic tourist attraction of Melbourne and learned a lot about the history of Melbourne. We were all lucky to also have a chance to go to the Melbourne Cup Parade. The Excursions I enjoyed the most were Royal Botanical Gardens, Eureka Tower and Old Melbourne Gaol. I learned a lot from going to these excursions and they were all interesting. Some other aspects I liked about going in city were having lunch outside, going to city baths every Friday and going to mini-excursions to gather information about our topic. I thoroughly enjoyed spending lunch time out in the city. In this time we were allowed to do anything in given boundaries so we all had opportunity to buy lunch with friends and have a look at places you like by your way. Other activity I really enjoyed in the city was going to city baths every Friday and have some play time. Because we were located right in the city, we went to other mini-excursions very often and we learned about transporting through city a lot too. There were also some things I did not like doing in the CBD, like having to write reflections. I thought it was useless and annoying to write reflections after every excursion but as we went through I started enjoying writing reflections, I understood the importance of it and I also got better at it. I was working on topic 'Living in Melbourne - By Choice and By Need' with Peter. The facts I found out about people in Melbourne were fascinating. I am amazed to see the development Melbourne is going through. I have learnt that Melbourne has been a great city to live in since its founding. Melbourne is becoming a modern, advanced city everyone would want to live in. On the other side, I feel very sad about people who are homeless and don't have a place to sleep at every night. I have learned that unfortunately some children like us have to sleep and spend their lives on streets of Melbourne and are unable to get something out of their life. That is why I really appreciate the organisations helping homeless in Melbourne. I hope under their generosity and kindness nobody would have to be homeless in Melbourne.

We did have great time working on this project on wiki pages, but we also encountered some difficulties and problems. Often it got really frustrating working on the Wiki pages. The problems we had during this process included some related to auto deleting as an error, some for changing the setting of the text, e.g. Font, colour and size and some for alignment and situation of a image. It was really hard but we finally got a good understanding and grip of how they work and found it lot easier after that. We had spent a lot of our precious time trying to figure out the problems and I am sure; on my next project on wiki pages; I will do it more successfully and accurately without having to waste so much time. I have learned so much about computers during this project from Peter, the Web masters and my great teachers. I have also improved on my typing and reflecting skills.

What I got out of this program is amazing but it is all here because of help given to me from my great teachers, Web masters, my friends, people who helped us with our project and mainly my colleague, Peter. This has been an unforgettable experience and I thank everyone who helped me to achieve this level of results.

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