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That's what happened this weekend. Yours truly starved himself for a GOOD solid 28 hours for Notre Dame's "THINKfast".
The goal of this .. "Self - Starvation" was to experience what starving families live through on a daily basis. It gave Notre Dame students (Myself included) a chance to appreciate what it's like to have the wealthy amount of opportunity and potential we have due to the fortunate circumstances we were born with.
Every 4 - 6 Hours we were given cracker and juice breaks. This was to avoid fainting and to keep us healthy and alive. (after all... Starvation does TERRIBLE things to the human body). Other than that though, everything else was deemed "Illegal". I have come to the conclusion that although it seems easy to refrain from eating, speaking from someone who LITERALLY eats every other hour; I found it to be an EXTREME challenge even WITH the breaks. Despite nearly losing my sanity, I had an overall fun time at the school as we used the ENTIRE building for a capture the flag game & a man hunt game.
However, there was ONE activity that stuck out in my mind that made me flashback to the
Carnival Freedom's "Club 02".
We played a photo scavenger hunt in which we went from station to station solving problems and performing tasks in which we had to take pictures of ourselves competing them. This brought me back to the scavenger hunt the "Club 02" organized in which we had to go around the 12 floors of the ship to find random items and bring them back. This also reminded me of the first few times me and my girlfriend Abigail bonded and had a moment together.
At the end of the day it was fun, and the starvation was well worth it as after the bowling, staying up with the boys until 4:30AM and attempting to sleep on hard gym floor, playing basketball in my PJ's, as well as playing bass while my friend Emily playing her electric guitar that we had a pizza buffet in which I completely consumed 3 LARGE slices in under a few minutes.
It was a unique experience and despite many of the negatives that went along with starving, I would honestly not mind doing it again as it was for a good and pure cause.
- Francis Frustration
1 comment:
LMFAO still don't know how mr. eats everything fasted for 28 hours... but I guess anythings possible eh? just kidding, good job francis, I would never be able to do it, and you helped a good cause, you shuld be proud :)
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