frustrations and discoveries

After a week of not noticing many mirrors, I started noticing many reflective surfaces and the predictable and the strange things that they do. For instance, as I was laying in bed talking on the phone late Wednesday night, I looked at the framed poster on the wall. I saw the same reflection that I always see when I look at it from that angle, which is of a fabric vine. I remember in an excited flash that the first time I noticed this reflection a month or so ago I couldn't understand why the I saw something that wasn't in front of the frame. It didn't occur to me then to think about the fact that I also was not in front of the glass. In fact, I wasn't particularly curious about it. I had to interrupt the person I was on the phone with to share this epiphany.
I had a glass reflection confusion waiting for the bus Friday night. Looking at the window of a restaurant about 10 feet from me, I could see a neon sign in the window across the street behind me and perhaps 20 feet to the side. This was not crazy, and in fact, because it was very difficult to tell how angled each building was, I could not learn much from a close looking at this. (This is to say that it was not compatible with what we have been looking at in class, which does not mean that I cannot learn from it, but that is what I wrote first so I thought I would leave it since it says something about what I believe.) What was strange about the reflection of the neon sign was that it was double. Moreover, when I moved my head to one side, the two images diverged. When I moved my head back the other direction, they came closer together , and then moved apart again as I passed the center. Less interesting, but relevant to my mirror noticing, last night I went to see the new A.R.T. Shakespeare Explored production, which was interactive, so-called adventure theater, meaning that the audience wandered around the massive theater space--an old school--and encountered theater. In at least three rooms, I was only or primarily able to see the acting through mirror reflections.
But there were a couple of frustrations this week. In class Wednesday, when we began to explain what we had discovered about the mirrors, I got the impression that A) many people had not pushed themselves in the activity, and B) though this course stresses listening to learners explain, I got the feeling that most of my classmates, and I as well, were not listening to the other learners to understand how the methods they share were related to what that discovered. Even I made assumptions during the activity. I became frustrated when the class did not progress, or move in the direction I wanted to go. I have this problem a lot as a learner, and I believe it is a horrible tendency among teachers. There was a personal frustration which the class closed on because of time. The member of our mirror group who had been so intent on drawing graphs, tried to explain our method for using our body and arms to visually calculate the angles without string. However, she hadn't actually done it, she had only sort of seen Miyoung and I do it, and either she didn't understand it then or she forgot it over the week, because she explained in completely wrong. Not "she was very clear" wrong, but the methods wasn't at all what we had done in class and because she didn't figure it out or understand it, she didn't know how to fix it. ED would not let me chime in because, understandably, she did not want me to interrupt an explanation. But truthfully, because she wasn't explaining an understanding. I feel confident that she could have "re-invented" the technique in different circumstances, but she was surrounded by an impatient, confused crowd and she kept looking at me to help her out. It was not pretty. I threw her a couple of hints, which I was not happy to do, and she got there, but the whole thing was rather unpleasant.
The bigger frustration, though, is that my moon curiosity could not be higher and I cannot find it! I want to know about the bunny ears and its possible spinning, and whether we always see the same side of it, and whether it waxes on and wanes off from the same side, but I cannot find it. It is driving me mad! I almost want to rent a car and drive out to the middle of nowhere and stay up all night taking pictures and notes. I know I am not dedicating myself as fully as I ought to this, but it is so disheartening to go out at night and not be able to find it. No I am hearing from people that it is best seen in the morning right now, but I go out in the morning and I still don't see it.