Chatting and bustling students fill a large science room to the brim. Seats are filled and tables are full of backpacks, homework, but most importantly, bread. The Bread Club never expected to blow up this big.

“We knew that people would want ‘free’ food, but I guess we underestimated how much people liked bread,” senior and President Angel Aguilera said. “I feel as if the club is going well, but we are still just getting the ball rolling.”

Aguilera took inspiration from his friend’s Bread Club at Carnegie and thought it was a great idea, and he wanted to find a way and root it into Bellaire’s diversity, a place where people can appreciate and learn about bread.

“We like to emphasize the different cultures these breads come from, so we want to collaborate with other cultural clubs more so that we can share that with other people,” senior Vice President Caleb Chiao said.

Aguilera and Chiao got the Bread Club in the works by asking biology teacher Mariah Vu for her sponsorship.

“At first she thought it was a joke,” Aguilera said. “After some negotiation with her, she agreed to be our sponsor.”

As of Oct. 22, the Bread Club baked pumpkin bread, banana bread for Cardinal Camp, bought challah and made cornbread.

“For future breads, we’re actually planning on having a meeting on Nov. 4, and we’re debating on a type of Hispanic bread, more specifically sweet bread, because the Day of the Dead is coming up,” Aguilera said.

The first meeting alone, they raised $260 from $5 dues. Since all the officers bake, the money will go toward their officer baking sessions, where they prepare new batches of bread and take pictures for upcoming club meetings. As for future fundraising plans, the Bread Club doesn’t plan on having any anytime soon.

“We don’t want people to feel like it’s just them paying for bread,” Aguilera said. “We really just want to talk about bread, then they get to try what we’re talking about. All so they can feel included in the presentation and not just them being presented to.”

The Bread Club’s goal is to bring everyone a little closer together.

“We just want to continue providing people with a way of appreciating their friends and classmates’ cultures with something that everyone can enjoy,” Chiao said.

To attend future meetings or find more information join the Bread Club on their Remind by texting @bhsbread to 81010.