i attended my first day at feest today and the experience was amazing, the food the people and the teamwork when i walked in i got greeted by one of the leaders, she asked me who i was and my name once i told her she said “welcome to feest, you can go wash your hands and get started!” i immedietly felt welcomed. i began to help set up on the table such as, cutting boards, putting fruits in bowls and and potatoes etc. once we were all done with that we circled around roberto as he explained correct ways to handle a knife and cutting fruits/vegtables i learned the proper way to handle a knife and the most safest way to walk around with it. i felt like i was learning so much in such little time, after he explained proper ways to handle a knife and how to cut things we made groups. the main dish of the night was sambusa. we had 6 other categories of things we could possible make we went around the circle and said dishes we would prefer to make i immedietly raised my hand and said “fruit salad!” there were a ton of fruits such as apples,oranges, and even figs! we all chose a dish we wanted to make and got paired up with new people that we hadnt met which was a great way to communicate with new people and make new friends! me and my group had a set plan of how we were going to make the fruit salad. once we came up with that plan we went and talked to roberto to tell him that plan, once we did he handed us sharp fancy knives. i got back to my table and started cutting right away. i was excited to start cutting once i knew my new teqniques i had a job of chopping oranges and my group members choppped things like tomatos, figs and apples. it went well and we finished pretty quickly, because we finished so early we asked other group members if they needed help with anything so we began to help others with their food making. we eventually finsished and all sat down, before we began to ate we went around the table and stated things we were thankful for. it was a heart warming experience we all grubbed and had a good time. when we finished eating we left the table by saying “thank you for the food” overall it was a great experience. i ecourage anyone and everyone to do feest its great.
