Carpenter Art Garden Turkey Giveaway

This was such a fun event. I enjoyed working in the community meeting new friends and seeing old friends! The CAG team did an amazing job organizing this event.

This experience allowed me to realize that helping people is something that really fulfills me and that I want to incorporate into my career. What I learned about the community I served is that they all stick together and help each other out. They have different houses throughout the neighborhood for the neighborhood youth like tutoring houses and houses for arts and crafts. They also have a community garden and seeing how they truly care for the people in this community was really nice to see. I worked as part of a team the goal was to get all the sides for the turkeys in bags in time. We had 200 bags to fill and only an hour to fill them so we did an assembly line and everyone pitched in and while we did that others were setting up for when everyone got there. Working as a team was really nice and also effective, we got everything done in time and were able to help with handing out turkeys and checking people in. This service was about the people and ensuring that everyone had a thanksgiving dinner and that is what this organization does, they help in any way they can and try to go above and beyond for their community. The only real challenges at this event were the time crunches and trying to get everything out in time but everyone was really great so it wasn’t too bad and also trying to take down the tents because I had never done that before but I figured it out eventually.