Teensgiving 2013

Teenz in the City participated in the TEENSGIVING an annual one-day-only event in which over 700 high school teenagers participate in different community service projects all throughout New York City. Our group traveled together via subway and arrived at the 92nd street Y for a brief orientation. Upon arrival, we checked in at tables under our last names, which was good practice to figure out which table to sign in at according to what letter of the alphabet our last name started with. We were given our community service placement a food pantry on the upper west side of Manhattan. We followed the directions and arrived at the food pantry. We were given our task, which was to organize food donations into various boxes ie: canned vegetables, meat, pasta, rice etc. which we learned would be distributed tomorrow for over 100 people who were hungry. Our group worked really hard together as a team sorting cans and dried foods. Afterwards, we grabbed a quick celebratory lunch which was a nice treat after a long morning of hard work. While at lunch, we discussed with the group how most our sessions are generally geared toward having fun and outings that they prefer; however, it is important to remember how fortunate we are, and why it is so important to give back to the community. We used hopstop.com to determine the travel route back to our meeting point which included taking the 2/3 train crosstown to Times Square, then transferring to the S train to Grand Central, and then taking the 6 train downtown. It was excellent travel training practice for us to travel on so many different subway lines in one day! Overall, it was a very rewarding day ,and we look forward to making TEENSGIVING an annual event for Teenz in the City!