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    At my Sunday School, we went to go do community service at a place called the Beacon. The Beacon is a shelter for the homeless where they can get fresh food, clean clothes, a shower, legal help, and so much more. This organization has been helping the homeless for many years and they have been doing a great job. With all of this being said, my Sunday School group got in a car, headed to the Beacon, and met up with the person that was going to be leading us. The person explained that we had the choice of doing laundry or helping to make food. I wanted to help make food as I am passionate about how everyone should get food. We then split up to either go to the laundry room or the kitchen. I walked with my group to the kitchen to start help making food to serve. When we got into the kitchen, we met the chef and then immediately got to work. We helped to prepare food and also got in the line to serve some already made food. The homeless people started to line up and we served ...

       At my Sunday school, our group was notified that we were going to a community garden to help harvest plants and prepare the soil. With this being said, we all got in our cars and went to the garden. As everyone started to arrive, we met with the person that owned the garden. He was a very nice person that explained that we would be harvesting carrots, onions, and turnips from his garden. We would then also prep the soil for the next batch of veggies to be planted. My Sunday school group split into two groups, one was going to harvest the vegetables while the other group was going to prepare the soil. I decided to go with the group that was harvesting vegetables because this was apparently one of the more difficult tasks to do. The vegetable picking group ended up picking all of the ripe carrots, onions, and turnips from the garden. We then went to go prep the soil with the soil prepping group.     As one can see, the ethics of my choices include want...

       A while back, my family planned to go volunteer at the Houston Food Bank. We decided we would go on the weekend so that it wouldn't interfere with our work week. So, once the weekend came along, we all got in the car and headed over to the Food Bank. Once we got there, we met with our group and the person that was going to be instructing us through this experience. Our leader then started telling us that we were going to be packing food in boxes for the community. With this being said, we were led to the back to start packing the boxes. The first thing we did was grab flat pieces of cardboard and make them into boxes. This was a challenging process because we had to fold and crease each piece of cardboard in order to make one box. Once some of the boxes were formed, we put them on a conveyor type belt. We would then pass the boxes down for people to put food in. The food we used was canned food, granola bars, and other non-perishables that would not go bad aft...

     During the morning of Thanksgiving, I decided I wanted to help my mom cook for Thanksgiving dinner. So, I went to go help my mom who was already prepping food in the kitchen. We started by making green beans. I first grabbed the air fryer to cook the green beans in. Then I put the green beans in the air fryer along with some garlic. Next, I started to help my mom with the spinach artichoke dip. We used mayonnaise, spinach, artichoke hearts, and parmesan cheese. I was the one that combined the ingredients together and then put them in a bowl to be cooked. We then started prepping the main dish: lobster pasta. I put the lobsters in a boiling pot of water. I waited for five minutes, and then I took them out and cooled them off in some cold water. After, my mom and I worked to help pull the tail meat out to use in our pasta. Once we finished that, I got a pot and put some water in it for the pasta. After 15 minutes, it started boiling, which meant it was time to put the ...

    T his past Sunday I went to my Sunday School as normal. I logged into the class expecting to help the 9th-11th graders with the activity we were doing today. Although, when I joined the call, we were doing something different. Once I joined there were people from another religious school that practiced Islam. One of the large parts about our Sunday School is reaching out and learning about other religions in our community. With this being said, today we were learning about the Islam religion. In fact, Islam is quite similar to Judaism as they are both monotheistic (belief in one G-d). Moreover, there were kids my age, younger than me, and older, that are all part of a different religion. Once we all introduced ourselves, we took turns talking about our religion. People part of my Sunday School used their strength (including me) to talk about the Jewish religion. We talked about the Torah and different events that were important in our religion. Then the other kids that pra...

     A while back, I would always go and volunteer at my Sunday school to teach Hebrew. While I was there, I was part of a group called Ozrim that is effectively someone that has completed their Bar Mitzvah and is still coming back to Sunday school and volunteering. I am part of this group because I feel it is important to give back to the community that once helped me when I was getting ready for my Bar Mitzvah. When I am helping out, I choose to teach Hebrew. This is mainly because I am pretty good at Hebrew and reciting prayers. With this being said, everyone Sunday morning I would go into the classroom and sit down with a student that was prepping for their Bar Mitzvah. They would tell me the prayers they were struggling with and I would help them. Although, the one thing that I struggled with helping the kids with was their Torah portions. The Torah portion is a unique prayer that the person having their Bar Mitzvah must-read. Considering I have not practiced every p...

     A while back, my parents asked me if I wanted to go to volunteer at a community garden later that day. I said "Yes" as I wanted to help volunteer. With this being said, I waited a couple hours until we left the house and headed over to the community garden. Once we got there, we were greeted by the person leading the volunteer experience at the garden as well as other eager volunteers just like myself. The lead person then started to talk about what we were going to do. He said that we would be working in groups to help pick weeds and prepare the soil for plants that would be planted. Once he said this, I got in a group with my mom, dad, and another family. We decided as a group that we were going to pick weeds. This means we went over to one of the vegetable beds to start picking weeds. Everyone in my group was picking weeds and not seeming to have a problem. However, about an hour later I started to have some trouble with my back. My back started to be in excruciat...