When signing up for my shifts I wasn’t really looking at where they where I was only looking to see what fits in my schedule. I ended up volunteering outside of New York-Presbyterian three times throughout the course of the semester. It’s located at 575 W181st Street and WSCAH sends their mobile food pantry their …
Monthly Archives: December 2019
Pizza Festival
Having lived in the Bronx now for over two years, I feel like I have tried a lot of the local cuisine and have enjoyed a lot of what the area has to offer me. But one morning in early October, I saw an add on Instagram for the New York Pizza Festival which was …
Mac and Cheese!
It took until my senior year, and fourth Friendsgiving, to figure out what my signature dish is for a potluck. Mac and cheese! Freshman year I brought some boring dessert (because I could not think of anything), sophomore year I brought a huge bag of wine (oh yeah, nice one grace), and for junior and …
Salmon
You’re probably thinking “what on earth does she have to say about salmon?” Well you are right, it is a weird title for my post, but here it goes. Today at my final shift at WSCAH, one of the proteins offered was salmon. Usually in the basket of canned proteins, or meats, there is tuna, …
Let’s Keep Volunteering at WSCAH
Volunteering at WSCAH has been the most enriching experience throughout the time that I’ve been at Fordham. In high school, I was able to volunteer at a few different locations including hospitals and soup kitchens, but working at WSCAH had a completely different vibe. It was genuinely really fun to engage with the community and …
How My Family Does Thanksgiving
In my family, Thanksgiving is a week-long extravaganza where we basically try to hit as many of our cousin’s homes as possible. It’s not enough to just have one dinner because it wouldn’t be possible to fit my family and all of my cousins in one house. You may be asking; why do you need …
Final Shift at WSCAH
I don’t think time flies as much as it multiplies itself by a thousand and combines its thousand selves into one being and takes all that speed and puts it into one action, and that action happens in the blink of an eye. What I’m trying to say is, I cannot believe today was my …
The Best Advice I’ve Ever Been Given
I’ve gotten a lot of advice in my life – some solicited, some not. Some of its been proven very useful, like the easiest way to figure out a twenty percent tip on a bill, and some of its been proven not very useful, like when my AP Euro teacher in high school said the …
Relationship Between Food and the Toxicity of Albanian Culture
To a Muslim-Albanian mother, there is nothing more disrespectful than your child telling you that they enjoyed someone else’s baklava more than theirs. Lucky for me, I think my mom makes the best desserts out of any of my cousins, so this issue does not come up too often. Along with baklava, Albanians tend to …
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Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays for many reasons, but most importantly, because of the FOOD! I love Thanksgiving food and this break was much needed. This is what my break was like … Luckily I got to go home to sunny Miami and we got to enjoy our Thanksgiving meal outside in our …
