Cookies & Smiles

For the last action project for my Five Faces class, my classmates and I had to complete 5 service hours for ten individuals. I decided to bake homemade chocolate chip cookies, and give it to random strangers and kids at my Sunday school Mosque. I will be going to different places around my neighborhood, my brother will accompany me with my project to spread joy and happiness. The people who will benefit from my project are the strangers who happen to take the cookie I give them. I think it would brighten a person's day because they wouldn't expect a random person giving them food. It will also make the kids happy at the Mosque because little kids enjoy sweets. I can incorporate alchemist features to my project by me as an individual who loves food, and doing something that will brighten a random person's day. I can also add a little note on the bag making it a bit personal. My project is unique because it doesn't happen often, and people don’t do things like this because they often don't have time, or it’s just not that important to them. The headline to this project is, ''Spreading Joy Through Food''. This is what i'm advocating for. The steps that I will have to take for this service project are, buying the ingredients, baking the cookies (and make sure they taste good), packing the cookies, and then passing them out and spreading love! Down below is my video showing my service project in action. 

AK giving a cookie to a person (2015)

   This just in: Spreading Love Through Food!

After giving away many cookies, I feel really accomplished and satisfied. In the beginning I was somewhat nervous about the idea of giving it to random people I saw on the street, and after getting rejected way too many times, I decided to give the cookies out to kids at my Sunday school. The kids at my Sunday school were very surprised about getting the cookies and thanked me. I only had a limited amount which was very disappointing because other kids kept coming up to me asking for one. Although I didn't get to give each and everyone a cookie those who had one said they were ''delicious'' and ''moist''. Next I decided to put the packaged cookies on the windshields of different cars. I figured since the random people on the street wouldn't take it, the car owners would be surprised by the act of kindness. I put cookies on about seven different cars in hopes of making someone's day. Looking back at this project, it was more difficult than I expected. I had to make the cookies from scratch, then I had write little notes on the packaging, and finally put them on random cars and give them to little kids. This service project made me realize how little things can make a difference in someone's life. We may not know what others are going through but making them smile could go a long way.

Building A Website While Learning Italian

In my Fare class, my classmates and I wanted to showcase all of the things we have been cooking, and learning through out the term. We decided to have a dinner that would be open to the public. The foods served at this dinner would be made by some of my classmates who are the chefs. There will also be a cooking demo of the food so the audience could witness how the food is being prepared, and lastly the servers will teach the guests little Italian. My role is designing our website for the class, and for the public. The website shows people what we are all about. It has pictures of us as chefs in action as well as contact information to keep people updated.

Below is the link me and a few of my classmates created, together we built an informative website about our Italian class and how we cook! We decided to name it Fare Italian Foods. on this website you will learn about the 'restaurant' my classmates and I designed, and what we make. A dish we cooked in our cooking portion of the class called Suppli, a rice and meat sauce ball stuffed with cheese, then dipped in egg and rolled in flower and breadcrumbs, and lastly fried. Suppli originated from Lazio, Italy, but the word itself is French. Its a very common snack known in Italy. I decided to write about this dish because I thought it was unique and it tasted great. Below is a picture off the Italian dish Suppli.

BimbyMania(2015)

The presentation we gave turned out to be a success. We had twelve customers that came to our restaurant type lunch, and they all enjoyed the foods we made. The most difficult part was the preparation of the whole thing, we had to help out in the kitchen as well as get the area ready for our customers. We also ran into trouble when certain foods didn't come out the way they should have. Luckily we manged to create another Italian dish substituting the former one, which turned out to be a success! The most rewarding part of the whole presentation was seeing every customer enjoy the food, as well as the looking and admiring our website, the design team and I built.

Citation:Supplì Bimby; Polpette Di Riso, Sugo E Mozzarella - Ricette Bimby." Bimby Mania. N.p., 06 June 2014. Web. 12 Jan. 2015.