You Might Be In The Dominican Republic If…
The highlight of your day is the local fast food restaurant carrying Coke.
The new pick up line is hissing.
Horses run down the street at all hours of the night.
The main means of transportation are mopeds, horses, and your own two feet.
Pigeons walk through your back door and play in the water below your sink.
Mosquito coils have replaced candles in your house.
Mowing the grass involves a machete.
A gardener proceeds to steal your clothes off the clothesline while picking up leaves in the yard.
Cooking dinner involves dancing around 10 other people in the kitchen.
You live with 28 other people.
Chinola (passion fruit) juice is the drink of choice.
You can find a fruit growing from almost any tree.
Your bathing schedule depends on whether it has rained lately and the water tank is full.
Your teammates have a mental breakdown from scratching their mosquito bites so often.
You over indulge on chocolate milk and dairy products because you haven’t had them for a month.
Your response to “Americanos!� is “donde?�
You can find a rooster walking the streets at any given time.
You walk 15 miles a day to do ministry.
The main game of entertainment for children involves throwing rocks and rolling a tire.
You play volleyball in the dark, while wearing a headlamp.
You shave your legs on the balcony when it rains.
You invent a game that involves playing volleyball while sitting down, and then play it for 3 hours straight.
You can buy eggs individually.
You risk your life to climb on the roof in order to get Internet.
Your computer takes a nose-dive off the balcony of the roof while your team is doing feedback…and still semi-works. (Stacey)
You eat tacos at least twice a week.
You wake up and realize bugs attacked you in your sleep…then proceed to figure out if it was ants, mosquitoes, spiders, or chiggers.
You change clothes and take a shower twice a day after ministry to insure that you don’t carry amoebas into the house.
You see kids running around nude everywhere all day.
Any time you sit in something wet you question if it’s pee.
There’s a baseball game being played every time you walk to town.
You remember what day it is by whether you’ve taken your malaria medicine or not.
Mosquito nets are your newest sleeping accessory.
You describe everything good and bad as hood rat.
A 3 year old encourages you to mosquito hunt at night because of Dengue fever.
Written by: Stacey Compton, Kendra Floyd, Rachel McGuire, and Leah Mohrig
