Friday to Saturday I participated in the “30 hour famine” a project from world vision which includes no food for 30 hours. So let me tell you about my experiences.

The whole thing was organics here over the youth group of my church but I will talk more about this later. N Friday I started fasting at 8AM and had no food until 2PM on Saturday. Luckily we only had a half day at school which meant no torture during lunch and we got out at 11:30AM. At this time I have to admit that the hunger was kinda killing me but I somehow made it to church where me and the youth would spend the night with a lock in. Arrived at church I kept myself busy by helping to set up and by playing Guitar Hero. At 2PM 24 hours before we could eat we made Burritos which smelled so good and we couldn’t eat. Anyway this was the time were I started to talk about food and talk about it without end. Then after we had killed a few hours with Guitar Hero more and more people arrived until everyone was there and we started the lock in event. This meant playing games which were set up to help us understand problem of people in Latin, Central America and other poorer countries around the world. We got divided into tribes, team of 4 to 5 people, and played games involving a simulated hunt and a race for food. Of cause all with the goal to realize more and more how hard life can be and is for some people around the world. Of cause it still was fun and meant to be fun but it helped to sit still for minutes hoping not to be found pretending you are on the from guerilla rebels. From 1 to 8AM we had to sleep and we all were thankful for it because by that time hunger had become a loyal companion of all of us. After we woke up and had some juice for breakfast, by the way we had juice about every other hour or so and otherwise only water. After breakfast we played some games that didn’t involve as much physical activity as the ones from the day before but still it was a lot of fun. And finally we reached 2PM and broke our fast with communion and spaghetti. The weird thing was that at least I didn’t really feel hungry anymore by this time and so I only had a little bowl of spaghetti and everyone else had two at max. After this meal which seemed like the best of our lives we went home to get some sleep more food or in my case to work on a project for school.

This famine was one of the strongest experiences of my life, it was the first time I fasted and it wasn’t just cause the doctor told me to. I think I have come a bit closer to understand what some people go through everyday and to understand why the number one of the UNs goals for the century is to reduce world hunger. I also developed a new way of thinking in the way that I see fasting as a good opportunity to realize a lot of thinks and draw closer to god. As in a big coincident the preaching this morning was about fasting. And one last thing be said, it may sounds horrible to life 30 hours without food but it isn’t as bad as you would think, indeed it is one of the greatest experiences you will ever make.