Turkey Program Reflection

My plan for this activity was to help plan and initiate my advisory's contribution to the Turkey Program. I wanted to stay organized myself and help others stay organized during the activity. This program also raised ethical questions and helped me realise the ethical implications my actions can have.

During the activity, I helped to plan out and organize a list of what everyone would bring for the dinner. I also bought jello to bring in, but I ended up bring it a day late.

The outcome of this activity was that a lot of food was brought in. A couple small things were missing, but a family will have a nice Thanksgiving dinner to enjoy.

I thought that the Juniors in my advisory worked well together. We took different parts of the responsibility. For example, one kid explained everything to the advisory, I recorded information, other people offered to baked deserts and other brought stuff in. We could definitely lead more activities in the future.

I really hope that this activity benefitted the family who received the dinner. As I mentioned in an earlier entry, food can bring people together, and I hope that this act of service provided the family with love as well as keeping them from being hungry.

I think that I set reasonable goals in this activity. The goals were not too high or too low. If I offer to help with something, I think that I should be able to stay organized enough to follow through with it. I also think it is reasonable to help other people stay organized.

I didn't do as good a job at following through on them, though. While the list I kept helped remind people of what they were assigned to bring and met my goals to help others stay organized, I didn't fulfill my first goal of staying organized, because I failed to bring my food in on the correct day.

On the other hand, I met both of my learning objectives. I did help plan and initiate this activity because of the list. The turkey program helped me to consider the ethical implications I can have. For example, as I mentioned before, is it really fair or right to give one fancy dinner to one family when thousands are in need of simple food? I think that helping this one American family is at least a good start. I mean, at least I helped some people. I also think it is good sometimes to help people in your own country who might need food before you send all your resources to another country. This is a very difficult issue though.

I felt good about this activity I really think it benefited a family and it gave me and my advisory the satisfaction of helping others. The only thing I felt bad about was bring the jello in late. That was a good lesson for the future: Make sure you know the correct date and still try to bring in stuff early.

The Dead Line

One mistake I made with this activity was that I got the dates mixed up, and I ended up bring the jello a day late. Although I had been worried about other people bringing their food in, I should have been more focused on doing my part as well. I guess if I ever do this again, I will bring in food extra early to make sure I don't bring it in late or forget it. Even when I'm one of the people planning and initiating an activity, I have to make sure that I participate in the activity itself.