The exercise we did in class today was hard at the beginning because I wasn't sure where we were going with it. I'm still not entirely sure, but at least by the end of the class I was cranking out better answers. Most of my ideas were very basic at first. I wasn't thinking very much outside of the box. But hearing other peoples' ideas really helped me. By the second time, I started to come up with some pretty good phrases. I was thinking more abstractly. It was cool to see how different a simple quarter can be to each person. Personally, I wouldn't think of a quarter as being a payment for a whack-a-mole game. But in reality, it is. I don't play whack-a-mole, so I wouldn't know that. I have a cell phone so it no longer signifies payment in a pay phone, but to someone in the world it does. It was also interesting to see how much I would miss. The main reason I keep quarters separate from my other change is because they are the most useful for parking money. But when asked, that wasn't even one of the answers I put down. I guess today I wasn't feeling very creative or on top of my game. :) Oh well! But these three questions really got me thinking and got me to start considering less than concrete ideas.