Ethnography is made up of a number of components or elements which, for the most part, run alongside each other but the most basic and most important is extended and uninhibited access to the location or field site: ‘The two key term for an ethnographer are context and pattern’ (Fife, 2005, 1). As Fife point out, this may appear relatively simple when reading the theory from a text book but when it comes to the reality of doing there are two questions which confront the would be ethnographer: ‘(1) how much context do I have to cover, and (2) how will I recognize a pattern when I see it?’ (Fife, 2005, 1). I try to respond to these questions by attempting to convince my students that ‘letting go’ is the key to full exploration, but the idea of ‘letting go’ usually terrifies them more then the initial questions did. The idea of having a predetermined, fairly rigid, research design provides security and a sense of ‘control’; this is not possible in ethnographic research.