Hello, Mr. McDonnell. For this week’s blog post, I want to talk about my “This I Believe” project, my planning process so far, and what I’m going to do. The project I chose out of the three options was the “This I believe”, as you probably could have guessed and I chose this because it feels more interesting to me to talk about what I believe, rather than interview people and see what they believe or creating some sort of world in Minecraft. This one was appealing to me, and I commend Siena, but it just seemed a little bit too hard, and it feels a little too late to switch now, but I am happy to do the “This I believe option” just as much. As of now, I only have the beginning of a script for it. Hopefully, with the class time we’re given, I can get almost all of my script down. I can do the editing at home no problem, and also finish whatever bit of my script I have left to do at home as well. I intend on using some visuals for my “this I believe” video, and a voice-over. I don’t think my face will be shown, just like the example video. I don’t want to give too much away about what I actually believe in here, because that kind of ruins the assignment, but I will say that I’m going to talk about what parts of Judaism, Christianity, and atheism or agnosticism (is that a word?) appeal to me. I am going to stay away from saying what I do not believe in, just like what you said, but I feel like talking about atheism sort of requires me to talk about what I don’t believe in because atheism is in a way the lack of belief If I’m not wrong. If you’d prefer, I can fully stay away from the atheism position if you’d rather me solely focus on what I do believe in, but I think me saying a little bit about what I don’t believe in is alright. Again without revealing too much about my project, I’ll say that I’m also going to talk about what I believe in that is not religion, such as family, although many family gatherings a year for me are religion-based, so in a way that part also ties into religion. There are other things I believe in that I would say have no connection to religion, such as friendship or love. It is pretty hard to not sound corny or cringy in this project, talking about love and friendship and family, but I’m gonna try my best. To end off, I would also say that I believe in some quaker spices. Having gone to a quaker school since 4th grade, those spices have rubbed off on me, and I wouldn’t identify as a quaker, but I certainly believe in some of the things that Quakers believe in. These are some of the topics that I am going to include in my project. Thanks!