With the direction of the professors, team earth has set some deadlines that are firm. this will help us to make sure and finish all the work we can earlier than the class due date. We will meet these deadlines and we won’t be very stressed because throughout the semester we have discovered as a team that each individual member is able to perform under pressure well. I think that having these deadlines is a huge motivation factor and I have gotten even deeper in the work since we set them.
 
This video is a musical performance by the Silk road Ensemble, which is a group created and led by the legendary Yo-Yo Ma and it is the incorporation of many varied types of similar and vastly different instruments that were developed along the Silk Road throughout history. The Silk Road was a superhighway for the evolution of instruments such as the lute. The class was treated to a visit by a friend of Eric’s who is a professor at UNCG who studies instruments throughout time, with a focus on Myanmar. This man showed us a trail of changes to similar lutes that gave each one a personal and locally cherished sound, ingraining itself in many cultures.