Faminized

Ok, I do know that "Faminized" is not a real word. But if it was a word it would be a word that seems to describe me.

Yesterday I took part in my youth group's 30 Hour Famine. Well, it started at 12:01 midnight on Friday and ended today at 8:00. It had the strangest effect on me.

When I woke up on Friday I was really hungry. Probably because I hadn't eaten for 12 hours. Then at theatre I continued to be hungry until break and then I was fine. During the time at the church/school I went on and off being hungry and not hungry. It was weird, sometimes I would feel like I'd been eating all day.

At the Famine we also learned about real world hunger. We even played some games. One of them, which we played at night in the woods, we were supposed to be africans who were starving and we were trying to get food from World Vision. In the game, we collected bread. Of course we didn't eat it though! But we had to be careful because there were rebel soldiers trying to kill us. Really, we did have to be careful because if we got the light flashed on us we were dead (or out and had to start again)

The rest of the famine was really fun too, besides getting super hungry. I drank 10 cups of juice yesterday, which is like 8 or 9 times the amount I normally have in a day. I went to bed at 5:00 in the morning which was not a good choice because breakfast was at 8:00.

When I did wake up around 8:00 and came down for breakfast, I didn't feel hungry, even though I hadn't eaten for 30 plus hours and I'd been looking forward to breakfast the whole Famine. I did eat but I didn't really feel any better. I went home, got into bed and then I cried. I don't know why. Then I slept for like 4 hours.

Still, I am not hungry. Wait no, I wouldn't say that exactly. In my stomach I am hungry but the rest of me doesn't feel like eating. I don't know what happened. Maybe I'm just over exhausted. Perhaps I've lost my sanity from not eating or sleeping....


2 more things
- Physical movement becomes exhausting much earlier when you haven't eaten all day.
- Last night I watched The Prestige and it made me want to cry which I don't do that often in movies, especially ones like that. I don't know I just thought it was so sad in some parts. In the end it was ok though. Hmm...maybe lack of food.