An experience that has been very eye-opening for me during my second year has been serving at the Clintonville-Beechwold Food Pantry for my Year of Service through the Mount Leadership Society program. Through this project I have learned a lot about what issues people in the community are facing especially during a pandemic. By coming in every week I have gotten to develop a better idea of the needs of people in the community. Furthermore, I have had the opportunity to learn more about the behind the scenes aspects of a food pantry and how it operates which has helped build my knowledge. While this year the interaction with the community members is more limited, this experience has allowed me to make better relationships with the other people who are working at the pantry. To hear how long they have been serving and how much time they put in to helping others has made me realize that the reason these services are available is because of the amount of time they commit to it. My artifact is my first Timesheet and Reflection because it was the first place where I could could write down my thoughts and reflect on my project. In Mount we talk about reflecting on service, which I think is really important to understanding why you are doing service and how it is impacting others. Taking the time after each time I serve to write what I did has helped me to process how what I did is going to help many families. Reflecting on the challenges of the project and what I hope to get out of the project has also been a way for me to think about my service at the site and what I can be doing differently in the future to make a bigger impact. This project has also made me step out of my comfort zone and interact with many new people and learn their stories, which has helped me to understand the significance of the pantry. While it looks like we are just giving food to families, there other resources that the pantry provides that aren’t as well known, so getting to help with these areas as well has made the experience for me more impactful. As I continue to work with the pantry through the rest of the year I hope to learn more of the volunteer’s stories and interact more with the community members when I can. I also hope to gain more knowledge about how the pantry works to help community members in other ways besides just giving food.