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Reflection #2

On Thursday we planned our draft for the sledge and planned the building process. We have yet finalize the color or any decorations, but that's relatively easy and we will figure it out next week. The biggest concern at the moment is freezing the water and getting all the ice we need. Since the sledge is going to be quite big, we are a little concerned about how it is going to turn out. We planned to build the sledge layer by layer (essentially having 2-3 layers of ice) and not freezing a huge chunk of ice and carving that out. This will be more easier for us since smaller pieces are easier to manage.

This Friday we bought 5 big containers (40x23x15 cm in size) and froze the water. Actually, the stores didn't have containers the size we wanted and we didn't want to brake apart a thick chunk of frozen ice, so we made a separator from plastic and put in in each container. The separator divides the container in half. Building the separators was the biggest challenge as of yet, because the plastic was pretty weak and didn't stay up. We spent a lot of time and effort hot-gluing and taping it on. This will make our job easier later because the ice will already be in correct size and we won't have to do any 'downsizing'. It was really cold outside, so hopefully it stays that way so that the ice won't turn into slush. We still need to freeze another 5 containers of water and that will be done the first thing on Monday.

I think by now, our expectations of our finished product just went down. At the beginning, we were really excited and were all like, "must make this pretty and nice and shiny". But now, it is more like, "must finish the sledge, sledge must not fall apart".