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In presentation of yesterday's journey, we incorporated colour, photographs, and the sketches and drawings we accumulated at the cards' bidding. We used the cards to map out our path along the wall with the different coloured card to distinguish the different categories of actions. That is, move, rotate, record, wait and 'variable'. This presentation gave a sense of the exploration and movement which was at the heart of our journey.

In presentation, review and discussion of our journeys with other groups, we found that we each had a slightly different interpretation of what had happened. I spoke my ideas about how we were using different elements and senses to explore and interact with the city in a new way. I also found myself later thinking about how I commented that people might've thought we were tourists from our actions and in fact, it is that same concept with which tourists stop to observe things that perhaps those who are more familiar with the area might overlook. Because we are familiar with an area, we are in a way desensitized to it and are more focused on a destination than the route or the things along that way. By removing the element of the destination, we too were able to discover these smaller things.

Another group spoke instead of the roles we each took upon to make the journey happen and the importance of these role and teamwork in any situation. This was something I hadn't thought about and in fact it was an important part of the journey as we were each part of both the journey itself and the documentation.

To build on this, another group saw it as a catalyst for building the foundations required for us to work together over the next three years. Not in just the teamwork of the journey, but in the social interaction along the way. Journeys are often a shared experience, both among those participating and then recounting what happened and what has been achieved. Which is in fact, what we were all doing.

For the next part of the morning, we looked at the simple concept of chess pieces and how combination of their movements allowed for an almost infinite combination of possible games of chess. Creating our own new chess piece and set of movements proved a little bit challenging as we kept thinking too obscurely which would've later proved extremely difficult as we had to then make another journey from Britomart back up to Aotea Square, moving only as this piece would.

Once again armed with only the skeleton of a map, off we went. This time, we had a route and a destination and so focused more on the streets and buildings to navigate and calculate our movements and paths. The purpose of this was to again explore the city in a new way, on a new route and like the infinite possibilities of games of chess, to realise that there are an infinite amount of paths by which one can navigate around the same general area.

This time we were not assigned particular roles but we fell into them naturally, becoming used to working in a team. So looking at the weeks' activities in terms of compound meaning building on each other, it was all about finding new ways to approach the familiar to build new paths of understand, whether in a physical location, amongst our social interactions and also as the attitude and mindset to apply to our approach to the creative projects we will be presented with over the next three years. That was what I personally got out of it anyway. That, and a bit of sunshine, exercise, 'fresh' city air, and ran into some people I know on the streets of downtown Auckland while making some new friends along the way too.