You know that you are a lady missionary, still integrating into American culture when…
20. You have no idea how to tweet
19. You own more wrap skirts than jeans
18. All your jewelry is from different countries
17. All your clothes in your closet cost less than $150 put together.
16. You’ve forgotten how the ATM at your bank works
15. It pains you to pay more than $5 for a shirt that was made in the
country you just returned from.
14. Each piece of jewelry you own cost less than $5
13. You try and live on $5 a day for food and lodging
12. You feel more comfortable with foreigners than Americans
11. You are better at communicating with people who don’t know
English than with people that do
10. You have more in common with the people group you worked with
than your own family
9. You throw your toilet paper in the trashcan rather than the toilet
8. You keep your passport with you at all times, just in case the police want to look at it.
7. 7 hour car rides are no big deal
6. You would rather watch a movie on your laptop than a TV
5. It is no big deal to cram 10 people into a normal size car
4. You go up to people of different races and try to communicate with
them as if they don’t know English
3. You have a fear of starvation.
2. You catch yourself throwing trash anywhere
1. You would rather squat over a hole in the ground (the natural position) than sit on a toilet
