Brain Rules Chapter 3 and 4- Undergraduate Research

So far my experience at Hand Middle School has been really good. My protege is awesome. He is in 6th grade and wants to be a professional soccer player. The hardest part of mentoring for me is setting new goals with my mentee. He seems to be the perfect 6th grader. He makes all As and never misses school but once we sat down and really thought about what we could do for a goal we finally came up with one. My protege has a little bit of an organization problem. He has papers everywhere. So we sat down and got him organized. It took awhile but I hope that he will stay organized. I will check up on him next week and if he does good then he will get some kind of reward, probably some candy. I think that my biggest strength with mentoring is that I feel like I can relate to the kids much more than their teachers or other adults can. I think that I can talk to my mentee very easily and he feels comfortable around me. I have not volunteered anywhere else this semester but I will probably do a service saturday sometime this semester through capstone.