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Plunging into Global Volunteerism for Happiness: Adam Pervez's Photo Proof

After being featured on Patch a year ago, Adam Pervez has accomplished much of what he set out to do and he has photos to prove it.

After being featured on Patch a year ago, Adam Pervez has accomplished much of what he set out to do.

To catch you up, Pervez, who is a Strongsville High School graduate, was working a swanky job in Denmark and seemed to have it all. But he wasn't happy.

His solution: The Happiness Plunge, a two-year journey he calls the Happy Nomad Tour that will take him to six continents to learn, teach and help.

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We emailed him a few questions, which he answered from India on the 600th day of his journey.

Pervez also said of the last few hundred days:

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"I have had plenty of crazy situations though. I have been robbed three times. I was put on the wrong bus in Nepal and almost ended up in China instead of India. I’ve eaten everything from cow hearts to chicken feet to cow stomach to goat gizzards. I’ve been beaten up by 80 lb Cambodian women and told it was a “massage,” accused of theft in a Venezuelan store, pinched in the butt by a naughty Colombian grandma, rescued from homelessness by Costa Rican Indians on Thanksgiving, scared half to death by a hen in an El Salvadoran bathroom, and cried helplessly in public as my entire body was overcome by the spiciest thing I’ve ever eaten in Mexico."

There were too many photos to share in just one post, so here are more photos. 


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