Last week our group worked on writing a timeline for the process of our project. We wrote down some of the goals we would need to do for the next 12 weeks of carrying out the project of the student store. They included getting a storage room, a booth, getting the tax code, filling out the approval application, asking for donations, and making a donation letter. We also had to make an individual goal of what we were going to each work on to get the student store ready to open. So that week was pretty much dedicated to planning out for future goals. Besides planning, writing, and discussing our future goals, I finished reading the Alchemist. The ending was totally ironic, i didn't expect it at all. Santiago, the protagonist, went through a couple of final hardships. He turned himself into the wind to prevent himself from being killed and he got beat up by two men. Although at first he had no idea how to turn himself into the wind in the end he was successful. The lesson he learned was that the power of conquering over your hardships is within you. He arrived at the pyramids but he didn't find his treasure there however the men who beat him told him that next time he should not have been so dumb enough to follow his dreams. He even told him that he had a dream that there was treasure under a huge tree next to an old church abandoned in the meadows, so it ended up being the same place Santiago slept when he was a shepherd. The story finished off with him finding the Spanish treasure full of gold coins.