What's the challenge?
To hold a snake.
What are you afraid of?
The snake.
How was the experience?
I've received lots of emails from people suggestion that 1) I should get a tattoo, and 2) I should hold a snake. Since my religion doesn't allow tattoos (and I can't commit to one word/drawing for the next 100 years), I went with the latter. The snake thing is something I thought I was not going to be able to do, and judging by the video, I wasn't doing much really. I was completely petrified, mostly because of the fact that I didn't plan it. I was walking happily around NY when I see the guy with the snake and I understood I had to face my challenge. It all happened so quickly that I had no time to think about it, the guy put the snake in my shoulders while I was telling him to wait, he obviously didn't listen. So I did it, I stood there petrified with the animal over my neck and... Ta-da! Nothing bad happened! I survived the snake challenge!