Thanksgiving at Arlington Hills

Last week we celebrated Thanksgiving by having our Annual Thanksgiving Potluck!

Each class was in charge of cooking their own dish:

Teacher Cammy's class : Mashed Potatoes
Teacher Andrea's class: Sweet Potatoes
Teacher Jessica's class: Vegetable dish
Volunteer Class: Stuffing
Children's English School : Decorating

Teacher Andrea was gracious enough to be in charge of cooking all three turkeys and many volunteers helped by donating food or money!

We had over 80 people come to the party and had enough food to serve at least 100! Nobody went away hungry!

We even had musical entertainment from Teacher Cammy, Teacher Kirsti and Teacher Andrea's Husband, Greg.

                                                   Getting the sweet potatoes ready!

Cutting the apples

Carving the turkeys!

Reading the instructions on how to cook stuffing

Cutting the veggies 

Pam helping serve pie at the party!

Officer Lund stopped by for a visit and some food!

The happy teachers!



Paw Wah shows off a completed Manna Pack

Rice!  Soy!  Vegtables!  Chicken!

The tally of our hard work at the end of our shift





 Last week, the Employment Readiness classes took a field trip to volunteer at Feed My Starving Children. All of the FMSC employees were impressed at how hard our learners worked, and they invited us to come back many times in the future.

Our Fieldtrip



On Tuesday November 6, we go to Feed My Starving Children.

We take the bus.

We do food packaging.

Chicken, vegetables, soy, rice go in the bag.

Weigh the plastic bag on the scale.

Seal the bags, it is hot.

We count the bags.

There are 36 bags.

Put the bags in the box.

Finish, clean the table put the food in the bucket.

Take off the gloves.

Wash the hands water clean hands.

Take off the hairnet put in the bucket.

Eat a little food.

The food is good.

The food go to Africa, India, Kenya, Thailand, Bhutan, many many countries.

 Starving children eat the food.

                                                                                                  By Employment Readiness Class 1