November 1st Post

I made my first ever morning report announcement and who would have thought it was for my signature project!

As mentioned before, I am trying to get the Emma community to be involved in the dinner that we will be making for Joseph's House. Hence, I made an announcement with Helena about a food drive on campus. When I checked the box after the first day of the food drive, there was nothing in it. I was quite surprised, but immediately made a Plan B. Since my Dad recently started a non profit organization, and is related to donations, I could use his money to buy all the ingredients that we still needed, in the form of sponsoring. However, after I sent out a follow up email later that night, I received tons of food the next day. What a surprise!

In addition to the food donations we received from Emma community, Ms Mossop and I also went out to downtown Troy to ask local stores for donations. We first went to Uncle Sam's, and we briefly explained who we are, what we are doing, and showed the manager some photos of previous emma girls cooking at Joseph's House. He promised to give us canned beans, tomatoes, and oil without asking us any further questions! We then went to Placid Baker and Little Pecks and did the same thing - I felt like an entrepreneur haha :) I am also planning to make a website/online platform that lists all the Troy companies that have donated foods to recognize their sponsorships.

I am currently working on my cookbook, and starting a recycling program in the dorms. FOCUS will be helping me out with the recycling program.