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From our session on Sunday:

a struggle:

I was struggling with figuring out what to do now that I had a house. I have the problem that many of my other peers have of not being sure of how to get back to my house if I go too far. Also, now that I have a house, I am not sure what the next big accomplishment I could be making is. I know that I should not be expecting there to be a ready made and linear "next step" or goal as Thomas was saying today, but since I am still unfamiliar with the game, I am not sure what my options are yet.

an accomplishment:

I did not have a concrete accomplishment at our session on Sunday. However, I feel that in general, I did get more familiar and comfortable with the idea that when crafting things at your crafting table, you can follow your intuitions about how the general shape of something would be in order to guess how to make it. For example, to make a chest, you fill in the perimeter of the 3 by 3 grid with wooden planks leaving a blank space in the middle. This is kind of like a chest, which is square with a space in the middle to put things. 

an observation:

I noticed during the session and immediately before when I was playing Minecraft with Sarah that although people communicate with others while playing the game around each other, there is still quite a bit of silence as well as talking to oftentimes talking to oneself! 

a question:

When people are silent and playing the game with lots of concentration, I wonder what this actually means. Sometimes people call this being "into the game," but I wonder, to echo a point Robert brought up today in class discussion, how much of this is attentiveness and how much is the zoning out than can occur during moments of mindless repetition (e.g. such as when one is mining and must break block after block until something pops up)? However, I wonder if these moments are also useful? Do they teach patience?