Reflection: Thanksgiving Community Dinner

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Well, I have served my community every day on Thanksgiving for about 20 hours. Since 2012-2016, I have been helping out a community called Thanksgiving Community Dinner which it's a community that donates food to anyone who wants Thanksgiving meals. Well basically, I been volunteering out on serving food, waitering for people, washing dishes, and delivering food for them on the go. Every year during the morning of the community service, I always learn something new at that community which was really fun. For me to be able to helped people make me feel better about myself and to that community. Everyday during Thanksgiving, I would volunteer at 9 a.m. to about 2 p.m. and I was always excited to help out the community on giving thanks to food.

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