my book #2

          The book i choose is The Compass of Pleasure, which talks about how the brain works when you are doing something pleasurable. I am very happy with the book i have chosen, i am really enjoying reading my book. I find it very interesting and educational about why people do what they do, and why people become addicted to drugs and other such things. This book dives deep into the inner workings of an addicts brain and how they become addicted and how hard it is to stop, it doesn't just talk about being addicted to drugs but food, sex, and exercise. I am almost done with my book i have about twenty or pages left to read. This author has done an amazing job writing this book and putting it in terms everyone can understand. He has really intrigued me to want to learn more about the brain and how it works. I find it fascinating to learn about why people like the stuff that they like on the deepest scientific level that there is, and why and how some people become addicted to certain things, and why it is so hard for addicts to quit their addiction. To learn about why and how things make you happy, i think gives you a better shot at being happy throughout your life, because you know things that you can do to make yourself happier. I think everyone should read this book because i think it gives the reader a different perspective on life and it helps you to better understand as a person and why you do the things you do.

senior project #2

           My senior project is starting off kinda of slow, but recently I've done some work on it. I got my mentor a couple weeks ago, and luckily its one of my friends dads so it makes it a little bit easier to coordinate getting together and things like that. although i still need to do my mentor interview. My mentor is the fire chief of American Canyon, but he also works with a search and rescue team and he has been backpacking many times, which is helpful sense my senior project is on backpacking. My mentor has said that he has some ideas about where we are going to go backpacking and i have also been looking on my own about possible places that could work for us. My plan for our trip is that we go backpacking for around a week at least maybe more, because i want to get the full feeling of being on your own in the wilderness. The only problem with that is that we are still in school so i might have to miss a couple days of school. It is possible to go during winter break, but then we would have to go snow backpacking, which is a higher degree of difficulty and sense this is my first time going backpacking my mentor isn't sure if we should do that. However i would be happy to give it a shot. Another time that we could go is on spring break, but we kind of run into the same problem but not as severe, because there are still some places with snow.

senior project # 3

            my senior project is on backpacking. sense my last post on my senior blog not to much has changed. I still have not done my senior mentor interview. Although i do have i mentor, he is the fire chief of American Canyon and works with a rescue team. I'm am doing my senior project with a good friend of mine and he is the one who got the senior mentor because his parents and our mentor are family friends.. recently though i have thought about changing my senior mentor because it has been very hard to get in contact with him. I might change my senior mentor to one of my uncle's because i think it would be easier to get him to do an interview, and he is a person that is very experienced in the general area of backpacking. His job is he does equipment testing for north face, so as you could image he has quite a bit of experience in going backpacking, sense north face is a outdoor company that sells outdoor clothing, tents, and things along those lines. I have already talked to him about being my senior mentor and he was excited about it. He said that he would be happy to take me backpacking with him. I have decided what i am going to do my research paper on, i am going to do it on John Muir and the Sierra club which he created.