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A LO#4

For the past two weeks, my school has been in A-Term. A- Term is a two-week period where we study something intensively for two weeks. There are group options and people can also do independent A-Terms. This year I did a San Francisco city study A-Term, with a group of students. We spent a week in San Francisco learning about the culture and different districts there. My favorite day that we spent in San Francisco was the day that we went to the Exploratorium, which is a science museum near Fisherman's Wharf. In the afternoon that day, we went to Golden Gate Park, where we explored the Japanese Tea Garden, did a 3-mile hike, saw bison, and went to the tulip garden. The park was so beautiful. I also really enjoyed our tour of Chinatown, because we got to learn a lot about the traditions and history of San Francisco's Chinatown. Traveling in a group is definitely quite difficult because it is a lot of people going to places together and I spent a whole week with people that I was not particularly close with. During the trip, we had a lot of communication issues, but we were able to work through them and improve. We also had issues with walking pace and sort of leaving people behind, which was also due to a lack of communication. This issue was particularly hard to work through because everyone walks at different paces and some people walk at certain paces for various reasons, like walking slow to take pictures. This issue was quite frustrating to work through, but we were able to effectively communicate to understand each other and resolve the issue. The week was a lot to get through as traveling in a group comes with its issues, but we were able to persevere and work through it. 

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