The Habanero experience by Alec Thompson 3/15/10

In the beginning of the Belize trip everything was going fine. Then during the expedition the tickle sticks thought about trying a habanero pepper. Most of them didn’t want to try one but Christian decided to do so. He knew what had happened to his friend last semester so he wanted to try it. There was a bag of peppers that he had purchased from a local market. We were in the van when he ate a big orange pepper. After he finished chewing his face turned red and tears started running down his face. He yelled in pain as the spices started to kick in. Big John handed him some tortillas and told him water won’t help. Christian drank some water anyway and his face was still red. He was still hot in the face when we got back to camp and he rushed to the kitchen. Then Christian drank some milk and ate some bread. This helped a lot and he soon started to feel better after a ton of milk. There was a problem,. Christian’s stomach didn’t agree with the milk and the bread he had eaten. 10 minutes after finishing the milk, Christian tossed his cookies (or threw up). Then later that day he wanted to eat another one in front of Cassy so she could see it but he never got to. Later the next day, Dylan decided to try a habanero pepper too. There was a big difference between Dylan’s pepper and Christian’s pepper. Dylan’s was a fingernail-sized pepper. I would say it had the same effects as Christian’s, but I can’t because it was so small. At first Dylan’s face got red and he said his tongue was on fire. He went to his cabin to try to cool down from his pepper, later he said it wasn’t hot at all. Now that the peppers are gone everyone on the tickle sticks team have thumbs up for Christian and one thumb up for Dylan.