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Srihari's **R eflection ** The CBD has been a wonderful experience and has certainly helped me in knowing my directions around the city. I now know most of the city by heart and can navigate my way easier than ever. This CBD program has proved really beneficial for me, because I could go to places such as the State Library for research, instead of being restrained to just one source. Out of all the major excursions we've been to, I particularly liked the excursion to the Royal Botanical Gardens and the city river cruise, because it was rather relaxing and the day was perfect; not too hot, not too cold. I must admit though, not everything went according to plan and I did have some obstacles to tackle along the way.

James and I had a few problems that we've enc ountered, which have seriously delayed our contributions to the wiki-pages; a major one of them being not able to go on an mini excursion that will help with our project until the second last day of the last week at the CBD. Why is this such a huge problem? It's because we urgently needed to take pictures of our own, that will not violate the rules of copyright, plus, I've never been to the National Sports Museum so I badly needed to visit it to get sufficient information to finish off the National Sports Museum page. Another problem I had was that, I seemed to be getting too distracted from what I'm meant to do and just flicker my eyes to what everybody's doing, instead of focusing on my task. Everyday in the morning I said to myself, "Please don't get distracted from whats going on around you, focus on your task and get your work done", but as always it seemed harder than ever.

Now, enough of the negative stuff and lets get to the positive. All the excursions I've been to were great, maybe apart from the state library one because we didn't really do much of interactive stuff; It was mainly about getting to know more about the state library or sitting in front of the computer to see how to find what you were looking for. I am grateful that the teachers have put in so much effort and also the excursions they've planned were well thought of. I think the teachers have truly done a great job in making this program possible that they should be receiving just as much credit as the students. Well done teachers!

I must say that the first three weeks at the city, were very exiting and I certainly didn't get bored, because there were always excursions at least three times a week. The last two weeks weren't bad, although they were tiresome because those were the weeks where people got most of their work done. Us, on the other hand were aching to go on our first mini excursion, whilst all the others have already been to one. We were so bored and found it really hard to concentrate and didn't get much work done.

Overall I have to say, that the city experience has done to me a lot of good. It has surely made me more indepedent than before, and I hope I can navigate for myself, not only in the city but whole of Melbourne, without asking my parents for directions. I realise how grateful I am for being a student in this school, because other schools don't tend to take the risk of trusting their students at lower high school years and also their CBD experience programs don't go on for such a long period of time as ours either.

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