It is common in the DR to…
· Mop the floor and see little footprint on it seconds later
· Run from cockroaches after the sun has gone down
· Scratch your leg for 30 minutes not even knowing why you are scratching it
· Buy a coke/coffee simply to use the internet in a café
· Throw your TP in the trash rather than the toilet
· Take bucket showers
· Drink cold water like it is the only thing that matters in life
· Walk 20 minutes through town for dinner to realize that it is closed.
· Wait 2 hours for your bus to show up, then receive a call that it wont be coming
· Rest at a beach that feels like paradise
· Burn really easy because you are right on the equator
· Have your ministry work you to the bone, or cancel on you everyday
· Never really feel clean
· Wake up to dog fights, construction and car alarms every morning
· Eat foods you don’t even know how to say and love them!
· Hand wash your clothes 3 times in one day because they blew off the line back
into the dirt
· To hear noises being made at you and never turning to look at where they are
coming from because you don’t want to know
· Communicate over Google translate
· Paint your toenails with dirt on them still
· Buy American brand foods but not eat American tasting contents
· Sweat during the day like no ones business and freeze at night
· Scream blood curtailing screams because spider babies are running from their
mom after you caught the mom in a Tupperware
· Get sick from too much cheese in your diet-mac and cheese, cheese pizza, cheesy
stuffed peppers, and cheese empandas
· Shop for new clothes and realize just how cheap you have become as a
missionary
· Prefer to sit in the bed of a truck rather than the cab
· Humble yourself at the sight of a pastor praying on his knees before church
· You use more sign language than the actual spoken language
· You lean on God when everything else seems to not make sense and you see just
a glimpse of what the World Race will look like
· You come to the end of yourself to meet God fully!
