Here are the top 10 ways you know you're a missionary kid. (or at least a Gerth missionary kid living in Tanzania)
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| #10 you can greet people in at least three languages |
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| #9 at your friend’s birthday party you’re the only person from your home country |
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| #8 you don't feel safe sleeping at night unless you're under a mosquito net |
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| #7 every time you get sick you assume you have malaria |
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| #6 you lost your baby teeth on two continents |
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| #5 you call every old woman "grandmother" but you only see your real grandma on skype |
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| #4 you catch lizards and kill bugs with your bare hands |
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| #3 you understand the four main food groups to be rice, fish, beans, and mangoes |
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| #2 you've collected 429 soda bottle caps as toys |
.....and the #1 way you know you're a missionary kid......
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| #1 you don’t remember the last time you wore tennis shoes |
tennis shoes? what are those!?? Oh, the things you wear that cover your feet when you go to Nairobi! That's right. I remember. Wait, they're called what again? (real conversation with an MK...)
ReplyDeletePretty true for our kids in Congo! I've also toilet trained kids on 3 different continents...and my oldest is only 7.
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