Uni High Gargoyle Staff Blog

All day Saturday and part of Sunday, I participated with other Uni students (Caroline Brown, Eunice How, and Aliisa Rantane) in a 30-hour famine. The idea basically went like this: Don’t eat for 30 hours to raise money for countries that don’t have enough money for food.

Saturday morning I awoke to the sound of my buzzer going off at 5:30. The plan was this: Eat some food before 6 a.m. (when the famine begins) so that I wouldn’t totally wipe out by the end of it all. But … it was too hard to attempt to get up (I had made the mistake of staying up the night before) so I ended up falling back asleep.

The morning and afternoon went by relatively all right. But then evening came. Since most of the youth in Aliisa’s church were participating in the famine, the church was sponsoring an all-night lock-in to make sure that we all didn’t decide to cheat off a few hours. Being the hardcore people that we were, we never would have, but a lock-in definitely sounded fun.

There we were joined by visitors from Grace Lutheran Church (where Eunice and Caroline attend) for an hour or so for some group activity before they left. By then, I was more than a little weary. Most of the time was spent lying down and smiling contentedly. Surprisingly enough, I wasn’t hungry. I was just tired, a little tired.

After a rather strange but amusing movie (“Meet the Parents”), Aliisa and I fell into a deep sleep permeated only by the cold and a voice shouting out every now and then. Morning came quickly, and we were on our home stretch.

Noon came, and the group was more than ready to eat after the long service at church. The youth leader was savvy enough to order our lunch before noon so food was ready for us. We had not eaten for 30 hours (more than that for those who weren’t smart enough to eat right before 6 the previous morning).

It was a satisfying feeling to be able to help people out around the world, and to share a bonding experience with friends while doing so.

I’ll most likely do it again next year. It’ll probably go better, now that we know what we’re actually doing.

Linda Song