30 hr famine
Leading up to the 30 hr famine, i was a bit nervous because I had never done this before. I was wondering whether I should have signed up for it.
When Friday morning came around, I wanted to go in on a full stomach, so we went to Jimmy John's and had a big sub sandwich. YUM! :)
So daddy dropped me off at Grace and my friends arrived soon after I did. After everyone got there, the leader had us pick from pictures of children on a table who were in the World Vision program.
I chose a girl name Silira Francisco who is from Mozambique and also my age. We made a mini-collage out of their picture, a Bible verse, and their story, and laminated it. Then we put a string around it and wore it like a necklace.
Next we decorated the white t-shirts that we brought from home. That was fun.
But it wasn't all fun and games - next we had to clean out the middle schoolers closet - it was full of all kinds of stuff (even a fake toilet!).
That took us the rest of the day...when it started getting dark, we went out to a field with a BUNCH of boxes and made houses out of cardboard and duck tape. We called our cardboard house "Scottsdale" because ours was the biggest. :)
Then we went back to the main building and we had posters that had stuff like "Haiti" and "hunger" written on them and we drew or wrote anything that we thought about on those topics. After that, everybody got ready for bed and went to the field to sleep outside. Of course my friends and I didn't go to sleep right away. We talked, talked, talked some more until it was probably 12:00AM then we decided that it wouldn't be good for us to stay up all night long, so we went to sleep. We were not hungry at all, which surprised (and relieved) us.
When my friends and I woke up, we were all super COLD!!!! After all, we did sleep outside in a cardboard box/house in the middle of March. Anyway, we went back to the building, and we got changed and everything (we were still not that hungry yet).
Then we were greeted with some more lovely news(I am being sarcastic, just so you know) we had to clean out all the little rooms in our middle school church building. We vacuumed and threw trash away. After that all of us were exhausted so we took a little nap. Then, we watched a video about a brother and a sister and what they did when their mom died. The video was very sad, and some people almost cried. By now we are all feeling the hunger pains. My stomach was hungry, and I was kind of dizzy and sleepy. I think our leader noticed this because she let us take a short little nap.
When we woke up, we were drowsier than before and definitely hungrier too. For the last few hours, we just sat there, praying that we would not die of hunger!
I was looking forward to 6pm because that is when the 30 hours ended. We were gonna have a spaghetti dinner and cake!! It is sad because kids in Haiti and Africa and all over the world don't have a choice to become hungry and they normally don't have a big feast waiting for them at the end of not eating.
When 6 finally rolled around, the dinner was not ready yet so my friends bought skittles at the vending machine and each skittle was like a bite of heaven!
I don't know if I'll sign up next time, but I'm glad that I did it this time - Thanks to all of you who supported me! :)
I don't know if I'll sign up next time, but I'm glad that I did it this time - Thanks to all of you who supported me! :)
