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About Me

I'm Madison Johnson, but my close friends call me Sharky. I am 18 years old and have two tattoos, I plan to be covered in them one day. Some of my favorite things to do are Netflix but without the chill, insta stalk attractive people of the opposite sex, and of course cuddle with my dog Charlie. I am currently enrolled at Bonita High School and it is my senior year, thank you baby jesus in your little golden diaper. As a requirement of graduation all seniors must complete a senior project in their English class. I however rather than being involved with a regular English class am enrolled in a super awesome digital class so I type everything and leave it in my computer instead of printing on paper. It's a great idea for a class because printing things and putting them in a two inch binder is a real inconvenience. Being that it is a full class obviously there are other students. Here are two of my classmates pages, check them out they are pretty cool people. Emily Harmon thinks she's garbage but I think she is a cool chick [1] and this kid gets all the gains his name is Mark Mumford [2]

This is my dog Charlie, I have been using him for my project
My shark tattoo

The PACE

The main focus of my project is about how therapy animals help and affect senior citizens. For the project you have to get at least 30 hours and have them logged. There also must be and 8 page paper. You can see my portfolio here [3]

Project

To obtain my hours for the project I have done two things. One of which is bring my shitzu poodle Charlie to school and training him to become a certified therapy animal. It has been a tough process to train him because I am his owner. The other five kids in the program use dogs from other teachers in the district but since my mom is a teacher at Roynon Elementary I can use Charlie. The process has been hard because I can not discipline him the way the other handlers do. I feel like since I am more or less Charlie's mom he does not take my discipline the same way he would if some else disciplined him. What I think goes through his mind is that "Oh she is just my mom, I can get away with this again" where if it was someone else he would recognize the bad behavior and not repeat him self.

The second way I got my hours was by volunteering at Hillcrest, a senior citizen retirement facility located less than a mile from school. I would take Charlie in his therapy dog vest and we would visit seniors in their homes as well as be involved with their group activities. All the people that met Charlie absolutely loved him, one women actually made a blanket for Charlie.

Paper

Another part of this project includes an 8 page research paper. My paper is on the affects that therapy animals have on senior citizens. I expected that my hands on research and own findings would be the focus of the study and then I learned it would not be. I was surprised at the lack of information on this topic. It became difficult to finish the project near the end because it was hard to write decent paragraphs.

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