For this week’s blog post, I am going to write about what I think of the upcoming project about the Silk Route/ Silk road and what I think about it. Me and my partner, Hillary, decided that we wanted to do the second option where you make a virtual museum exhibit with 10 ancient artifacts. So far, we have only done a little bit of research and collected some sources and things like that just to get ready to start the project since we’re still early in it. It was not difficult to find information on the silk road, but it was a little harder to find information specifically on ancient artifacts from the silk road, but I did find some stuff. I also plan on using some of the artifacts provided by you, Mr. McDonnell on your example assignment and just doing my own research on them and getting more information. I think this is a pretty cool assignment and I would much rather do a project like this than have a big unit test. This is our first big project in this class and so far things are manageable. I also appreciate how you made the step-by-step sheet to help walk us through what we should be doing on what days. That helps us a lot and takes off some of the pressure of the big project, at least in my opinion. I have never really been a techy person, so I was a little bit nervous when I found out this project required a lot of tech and computer savviness, but so far, things are going ok. I haven’t really used the program for the virtual museum yet, so I guess there is still time for me to not understand it still. The google earth project also seemed a little hard to use after playing around with it a little bit, but it does not seem too hard that I wouldn’t be able to manage it. I know this is a big change, but now I’ll talk a little bit about Isidasi and the promise of Buddhism. I didn’t really understand the story that well and even after the discussion I was still confused. All in all, it was not one of my favorite stories that we’ve read in this class, because I didn’t understand the meaning. Isidasi getds treated poorly by her husbands because she gets old? it just doesn’t really resonate with me, which is ok. I also didn’t get how her being reincarnated as a man and sleeping with anothr man’s wife had any relevance to the ending of the story where she became a monk and found inner peace, but I am ok with not fully understanding it in the end.