Just Keep Swimming

Overall, I have enjoyed this project. It was fun seeing how much I can take away from myself and still survive. I have learned that I am able to still do my daily things only eating some rice, which really isn’t as much as I thought it was going to be in the beginning. I have also learned that I am one of the most stubborn people I know, I don’t give up once I say I am going to do something. Even though there were many days when I wanted to give up (kind of like today) and when my body needed food to get energy but I just keep on going telling myself I can do it. Which I can do and did. I now know what it is like to have hardly any food to eat and still have to go on with my normally life. I kind of thought that I would get to not do as much as I did while eating normally but time doesn’t stop or slow down just for me. The world I guess doesn’t just go around me and my wants and needs. I still had to walk to school, unload the dish washer, clean my bathroom and attended all of my classes. There were many days when I just wanted to go home and not talk to anyone but I had to get over that because everything in this world just keeps going so I needed too. I don’t know how people in third world countries do this every day for their whole life. I would probably at some point get used to it but it would be hard to go on every day hardly eating. I need food in me to keep warm in the winter months and to help me keep up my energy so that I am able to sit in class and not sleep. Food in any culture is important but I think in our culture it is more important than others. We need food for parties, for snacking, and really for staying warm. But in Africa they don’t need food to stay warm but food to help their bodies stay strong so that they can go on with their daily lives. That means they won’t be eating as much as we would be over here, but at the same time I still think we eat way to much then waste way, way too much.