I volunteered at the same soup kitchen as last time, A Just Harvest, and I think the second time around was even better. There were two others with me from the last group who volunteered again and it felt great knowing familiar faces. Once we arrived at the soup kitchen again it was the same task meet three new people and get to know them. This time I wasn't shy. I was able to approach several people and have conversations with them. One lady I talked to had a whole stack of papers of drawings that she drew herself. She was very funny and even gave me some of her drawings. They were incredible. The second time around the lady that was in charge of the whole thing told us three that attended the soup kitchen last time to inform everyone of what to expect and just help them out if they needed.
I was surprised to see so many familiar places in the soup kitchen, I thought I wouldn't remember any of them but I did.
This time instead of putting the food on the plate I was in charge of the dessert plate. So everyone's meal came with a meal and a dessert plate. For dessert some had brownies, cookies, scones, and each sweet dessert came with a fruit.
At the end of the day only a few of them actually came up and said thank you to us after their meal and it felt really nice to be acknowledge for what you did, especially something you volunteered for. Many of them were thankful and said how nice it was for us to take time out and come down here and help out.
One thing that I thought was funny is how a lot of the people asked us where we were from and once we told them they always wanted to know how many miles away it was. I thought it was just really interesting how most have probably never been away from Chicago so once we told them Lincolnshire or Buffalo Grove most didn't know where that was but once we told them about 30 miles they had some idea where it was.
Overall, the second time around in the soup kitchen was really beneficial and I enjoyed spending my time and volunteering there.
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