Drift Assessment #2

2. Describe, with details, two situations during Drift 1 and/or 2 in which you felt unusually peaceful, at ease, or contemplative.

While I was walking closer to downtown on my first drift, I though everything would be hectic and busy, and that I would stick out like a sore thumb just standing there recording sounds. However, I was surprised to find that it was exactly the opposite there were a lot more cars and people and the streets were much busier, but I seemed to blend in well and specifically when I was recording around St. Mary's Hospital loading dock, I felt very comfortable recording the surroundings of the cars and people passing by, more so than I ever would have thought. Also in my Drift 2 walk while shooting video of the trees I discovered how easy it was to tune myself out to other things around me, and focus in on what I was shooting to see things like the small differences in the shade of bark and tiny notches in the wood things that I would not have noticed just passing by. I became very relaxed with what I was doing, and was able to focus in more, without being distracted by cars and people passing by.