live like a Honduras PCV challenge.

Following in the footsteps of the website www.LiveLikeAPCV.org, I created my own challenge for someone in the United States to live like a peach core volunteer in Honduras. To make this challenge possible, I will cut the challenge down to one day. Be sure to make it the hottest day of the year.

The night before you undertake this challenge, go out and purchase the following:

plastic fan

laxatives

candles

jar of mosquitos

one-ply toilet paper

cheapest bottle of rum

stray dog

rooster

*make sure you have $7 and only $7 for the day.

On the night before the challenge, set the thermostat to 95 degrees F for the next 24-hours. Put the stray dog and rooster in your house so you can wake up to the sounds of Honduras. Set a radio alarm clock for 4 am and tune it to Evangelical music, volume: high. Carry the rooster around with you all the next day.

Shower with your garden hose. Bring the bucket.

Take one laxative every three hours for the rest of the day. (This will simulate the usual effects of a Honduran diet on your stomach.)

Tuck all valuable items away in your socks, bra, underwear, or a hidden pocket.

Catch a hitchhike in the back of a truck full of Mexicans to the nearest 7-11 and buy a bag of Salsa Verde Doritos for breakfast.

Effects of laxative should be working. Take a shit in the next outhouse you find. Allow yourself two sheets of one-ply toilet paper. In case you still cannot shit, hover over toilet seat for one minute.

Before boarding the public bus back home, buy a pizza and try selling the slices to other passengers. Throw the trash out window.

Once you get home, lock yourself in a room with the bottle of rum, the plastic fan, a crusty book, a bucket and a gram of shwag. Choose three of the five for the next four hours.

POWER OUTAGE! If you chose the fan to escape the 95 degree climate in your home, you’re shit-outta-luck.

You have one tablespoon of mayonnaise, two cups of four-day-old beans, one egg, a rotting banana, hot sauce and some lard. Cook dinner by candlelight using only one burner.

POWER BACK! Check your email using 56K dial-up. Don’t stop until all your usual tasks are completed, even though you may be experiencing extreme frustration.

More diarrhea. Use a toilet other than your own – bring the one-ply toilet paper. Flush by pouring water down the toilet with the bucket.

Turn on the set of speakers in living room to Reggaeton and another set of speakers to Ranchera, both blasting on the highest level. Lay down on your dog’s bed, tuck rooster in, and grab jar of mosquitos and RELEASE!

Sleep if you can.