The seed phrase Shikpa threw out during out meeting discussing my ideas on the two histories continues to linger in space. Energy is neither created nor destroyed, it simply changes form although every time the energy changes form the intensity of the energy does diminish. There are energy losses

And so it must be with our conversations. The energy lingers somewhere in space to eventually re-used. I am spending a great deal of energy trying to figure out Shipka's expectations within the "Shipka Spaces." My design processes are not quite focused yet because I am spending more time reading the space we are communicating in. We are also trying to understand each other as peers within these spaces, so there is a great deal of meaning-making going on daily: making sense of the readings, making sense of Shipka's expectations, making sense of what we are teaching ourselves, and making sense of how we communicate with each other.

The whole premise and atmosphere of the "Shipka Spaces" is something completely new to most of us because we are not accustomed to working within a collaborative space with everyone in the classroom. Most collaborative work in other classrooms is done in small groups and not the entire class exchanging information with the entire class. Is this confusing? No, not really, its just different. The format is not something we are accustomed to and takes some time for us to adapt to the difference.

Eventually, Shipka's Seed Phrase does come into play, but it takes some time for me to recover it.