Empty Bowls Dinner

Every year, our school does a Pasta Pot Luck community dinner. The art students at the high school make ceramic bowls, plates and platters.  Anyone can donate food(must be or contain pasta) and after you buy a plate, platter or bowl of you choice, dig in! All of the proceeds from this dinner go to the Food Bank of South Jersey. This dinner is also to remind everyone the severity of hunger in our country and how some others bowls may not be filled every night. This year I am lucky enough to participate in the making of the bowls, even though I won't be here for it.

For the past few weeks I have spent my time in art class making bowls for the Empty Bowls Dinner. While making these bowls I have been thinking about the presence of hunger in our country. Every one in five children in America go hungry every day. This dinner will benefit so many people. I am proud to have made these bowls these past few weeks. I am sad that I won't be there on the actual night to see it in action but I am glad to have helped in some way.

I have seen the importance of helping others in need through this project. I have always done little community service here and there but mostly it includes volunteer field hockey coaching. From now on, I am going to do my best to change that. I think it would be great to do more community service projects through the school. This year I am a class officer and I feel we could have done more community service projects as a class. Next year(I plan on being an officer still(:  ) I will do my best to make the year about community service projects. I feel that being a class officer has to mean something more than just being a small, random group of four people that do nothing except what is asked of them.

Sadly, I cannot make the Empty Bowls Dinner. But for everyone else, it is on February 9th at the high school. Please come out and support our dinner!