Saturday, June 14, 2014

Top 10 ways you know you're a missionary kid

If you're wondering....

Here are the top 10 ways you know you're a missionary kid. (or at least a Gerth missionary kid living in Tanzania)

#10 you can greet people in at least three languages

#9 at your friend’s birthday party you’re the only person from your home country

#8 you don't feel safe sleeping at night unless you're under a mosquito net

#7 every time you get sick you assume you have malaria

#6 you lost your baby teeth on two continents

#5 you call every old woman "grandmother" but you only see your real grandma on skype

#4 you catch lizards and kill bugs with your bare hands
#3 you understand the four main food groups to be rice, fish, beans, and mangoes

#2 you've collected 429 soda bottle caps as toys

.....and the #1 way you know you're a missionary kid......

#1 you don’t remember the last time you wore tennis shoes





2 comments:

  1. 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...)

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  2. Pretty 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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