Sitting On a Bench
How I Chose My Bench 1) Visit a park, choose a bench, explain your choice and describe your bench. Walking out of the Lonsdale Quay Market I was drawn towards a black metal bench, the closest one to the water. There were three pairs of benches placed back to back, all-around six meters away from each other, but I took the one on the far right, facing the water. I did not want to sit on the one farthest to the left, as it was isolated in the corner where the fences met, and I certainly did not want to be sandwiched in the middle. Thus I sat on the bench that was farthest to the right, it was perfectly placed: to the left of it was free space, but it did not feel out of place because the other benches were still nearby. From where I was sitting, I could see a metal fence, spotted with love locks, and beyond the fence was the vastness of the water, with the seemingly peaceful Downtown Core on the other side of the harbour. In the gloomy June weather, it looked like the whole world ha...
