Written by At my dojo on Halloween my sensei usually runs a food drive but this year for my service project I decided to set everything and run it myself along with some dojo friends. When I asked my sensei about what I needed to do he gave me a list and at first I thought it was a lot or work to set up the food drive but once I got it all done it really seemed easier than I thought. Me and 3 other brown belts were outside of the dojo from around 5 to 7pm collecting food from students and parents, we also were handing out candy which was fun to interact with everyone walked by, and we got a chance to advertise our dojo to a few families so hopefully we will see some new faces in our classes soon. There was also a special contest going on, the student who brought in the most food items got a free bo and a private class on how to use it with our sensei. I remember one year I got to do a special bo class with my sensei also and it was really amazing so I’m sure the winner enjoyed that one on one session. About a week after the food drive me, my dad, and one of my cousins who had a truck helped deliver the food to the River City Food Bank in Sacramento. It was really cool knowing that I was helping a ton of families in need of food. I was amazed that we reached our goal of 1000 lbs of food all in one night.
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That’s really great that you collected 1000 pounds of food for River City Food Bank. You helped many people who need food. Well done on your community service project.