Field Experience # 2 Thanksgiving Dinner

Every year for Thanksgiving, International House of Pancakes gets together with the Clifton Fire Department and host Thanksgiving dinner for the less fortunate. This Thanksgiving I decided to get involved. It is held in the morning hours of Thanksgiving at the Municipal Complex building on Vanhouten Avenue in Clifton. Department Chief Thomas Lions is the head of the organizing as well as General Manager Kevin O'Neil from Clifton IHOP who supplies the food. It was interesting to prepare food for people in a manner in which I never had to do. I did not cook it but some dishes I was able to prepare myself. In preparing for the dinner it gave me a different feeling that I never experienced before because I never knew anything else on Thanksgiving then coming home to a hot, large meal. I never stopped to think that some people do not have this luxury and that these people rely on us to bring them a hot meal on the biggest dinner night of the year. It truly was a pleasure seeing how grateful a person can be just to get a meal from a friend who wants to help.