SiobhanMiller

Today was the hardest! I realised that I don't even like beans and I started work in McDonalds.

5 hours of torment in McDonalds was not what I needed!! I can't wait until I can eat properly agind, just eating rice and beans is making me soo tired!

This is harder than I thought!

Every morning when I arrive at college I go straight to the canteen to get chocolate but this morning I was determined to walk past without giving in to temptation. My friends noticed a difference as soon as I entered the room, once I explained myself and 'What does poverty mean to you week?' they were eager to learn more. Some of them hadn't even realised how little people live on!

Right then and there Eleanor decided that she too wanted to join in! I'm not alone!!!! haha

Break - Baked beans...yum

Throughout the day it became harder and harder to avoid the canteen.

Lunch- Some rice and kidney beans. Not the nicest food in the world, and kind of made me feel sick.
          - A hot dog continuously wafted in front of my face by an unsympathetic Eleanor, who had already given up.

After lunch is one final lesson before I can go home and try to distract myself with a never ending marathon of old sci-fi movies. But Biology has never taken so long! I still can't work out what went on in that lesson, all I could think about was chocolate, grapes, pizza, and many other fabulous things I could have been eating at that moment.

I NEED CHOCOLATE!!

6 more days until we're reunited....

Today I start eating only rice and beans. I am doing this because hunger is such a massive issue  for so many people and I am trying to see how hard it is for me to get by on such a basic diet. I want to have a small understanding of just one of the challenges that people in poverty face.

I am definitley going to miss chocolate, and sweets, and crisps!