Hello. For this week’s blog post, I want to talk about the upcoming role-playing project we have about the Haitian revolution. As I’ve mentioned in earlier blog posts, these role-playing/ acting projects, such as the Athens vs. Melos war, are always very fun and engaging, so I am pretty excited for this one on the Haitian war. My only concern is that I won’t be prepared enough for it, which kind of happened in our French revolution trial. I thought I had a grasp on what I was talking about, but it turned out I had just prepared a script, and when it was time to stray from that script, I was lost. This time, though, I am going to make sure I appropriately prepare. The reading assigned will help with that I hope. Over spring break, I was coincidentally talking to my mom about the Haitian revolution as well as what life on the island is like. She did the peace corps program in the Dominican Republic for two years in her twenties, and I’ve grown up hearing stories about what it was like to live there, and it’s pretty cool for it to come full circle and be relevant to what we are learning now. As we learned, I recognize how different the two countries are even though they share an Island. My mom spoke about trips she would take to Haiti while there and what that was like, and it has really stuck with her even some 20 years later. I think the contrast between the Dominican Republic and Haiti is shocking, and it is even more shocking if you know that the Dominican Republic really is a pretty poor country itself. For example, when my mom was there, the host family’s home that she also stayed in had no window panes, so when it rained, you would just get wet. That is not to say that all of the Dominican Republic is like that, but some definitely is. So, to compare this to Haiti, which is a very poor country, you really get a bigger sense of the state that Haiti is really in. In order to fill my word quota, I’ll talk a little bit about my Crane Brinton circular revolutions project that I am doing with Maia. We are creating a marble run that will feed the marble back to the start ofter finishing the run through a motor, which you probably know because of our proposal. I think we chose a somewhat ambitious project because of the coding and the actual assembly, but I think in the end it will be worth it when we have our cool project done. I think that this is a pretty cool project and I especially like being in the maker space and getting to use the cool equipment there. And with that, I think I’ll end my post for the week. Thanks for reading.