1) You share your shower with spiders/cockroaches/mosquitos and other tasty insects.
2) You can’t tell whether you have a tan or you’re just
covered in dirt.
3) You’re willing to share the activity of your bowel movements
with just about anybody.
4) You can sleep in any position (this includes standing up,
laying down, crouching, leaning etc. etc) and in any circumstance (on a bus, on
the ground, on steps, in a cabinet, under a table, on a bench, etc, etc)
5) You take bucket showers by candlelight
6) You wear the same clothes 3 days in a row and there isn’t
any judgement.
7) You get really excited about doing your laundry in an
actual laundry machine.
8) Hot water is a legitimate reason to throw a party.
9) You haven’t slept in a bed in over 2 months.
10) You know your team-mates’ testimonies just as well as
your own.
12) The team van feels more like home than any of the host
compounds.
13) You can distinct between the smell of each of your team
members’ gas.
14) Your entire team has synchronized bladders.
15) You know whose iPod is playing by one song.
16) “Dressing Up” consists of brushing your hair and
changing your underwear.
17) You find animal poop on nearly all of your belongings
even though you haven’t been around animals
18) Home becomes a building/vehicle that you use for more
than a few days.
19) The norm is to remain unshaved and those who do shave
are seen as strange.
20) Wearing anything that isn’t stained or smelly is seen as
“fancy”.
21) Sticky plasters and Detol becomes your best friend.
22) Using a machete becomes just as usual as an occurrence
as brushing your teeth.
23) People know you’re a missionary just because you’re
white.
24) You learn how to check a week’s worth of Facebook,
emails, tweets, etc, in under an hour.
25) You flip out if you haven’t seen a fellow team member in
over an hour.
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