Drift Reflection Tres

Describe three surprises or unexpected situations you encountered on your Drifts and in the days that followed. The surprise could stem from your expectations that conflicted with "on the ground" realities, cultural or social issues of which you were previously unaware, feelings and reactions that you did not expect to have, appearances and soundings of things you did not expect, good or bad outcomes of "on the spot" decisions you had to make, or the discovery of "deeper" realities in the materials you brought home. (Again, skip anything technology-related!)

On my second drift I came up with the walking strategy to flip a coin at every intersection and heads I’d go right tails I’d go left. I expected this would be an interesting way to go all around the city. But the truth is that for a long time I was really just walking around in circles. You may not think it’s that likely but at some point you’re going to end up getting the same result again and again and you’re just going to have to keep turning left until you’re right back where you started. You don’t get a lot of material doing that.
On my third drift I started to realize how much good material you can get when you’re really looking. I took a lot of pictures and video in a very short amount of time and just kept going. In my final video I barely used any of it, but that’s not to say that it isn’t good material. It just wasn’t all part of the film that materialized. The other drifts at times I felt a bit frustrated at how much material I was able to find.
I think there are always deeper realities in the material people get. Especially when you send them out into the real world with a camera or microphone. There’s so much going on all the time that important messages can be found pretty easily. I found many deeper messages in my material. But wasn’t surprised to see that it wasn’t much that hadn’t been said before.