The Route of Treasures...

Actually, almost everything went well in this silk road project! I loved working with my partner, Helly! Hmm, three things that went well would be, of course, the poster itself went pretty well, umm, I think we did well on the essay too and also, over all the time management which we had planned, worked out. There were few things I didn't like such as drawing the map was a pain; I'm an artist still I don't like to draw maps - especially maps on these kind of large posters. Since I like things to be perfect, I wanted my map to be perfect and I tried my best. Helly and I were half way done with the map and we realized that we have to include empires, which kind of annoyed me so much! So of course, reading the directions was definitely an issue! Also, Helly and I were working on this over the weekend as in on Saturday - Saturday evening; as soon as we opened the Google document for the instructions, the power went out. So we had a hard time with the map as well as the essay. There wasn't any difficulty in this project other than just making sure we were coloring the right empires and drawing the right/correct roads. My partner was a great help! Helly and I did everything together; we both helped each other out, so it wasn't like one person doing all the work and other one is just chilling! Overall, the collaboration was 5 out of 5 between us two.
If I were to do this differently, I don't think I would change anything other than just drawing the map technique - meaning I think you should project the map on the white board and we can just trace it. Other than that, I actually liked this project and I learned more than I would've by reading because when I draw things like locate them on the map, it just sticks in my head for some reason and I just remember it very well rather than reading. Just to let you know, I am not a reading person overall, so I enjoy doing this more than reading except it's time consuming and it sucks when you don't have power!