{"id":2268,"date":"2022-08-11T18:15:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T18:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2022-08-11T21:52:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T21:52:25","slug":"you-know-youre-an-mk-when-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/you-know-youre-an-mk-when-2\/","title":{"rendered":"You Know You’re an MK When…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Contributions from\u00a0Sean Sanborn<\/a>, Susan McKinney, the Ron Hudson family (It’s been so long I can’t completely remember which Items I wrote back in the 1990’s.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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General<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
  • You know that you are an MK when, of all the places we could be surfing on the net, we are over here reminiscing on the good ol’ days.<\/strong><\/li>
  • Visiting everywhere you miss, would take a very long time.<\/li>
  • When you can’t tell someone where you’re from.<\/li>
  • You’ve received dried fruit by the boxful, used teabags, and age inappropriate gifts from well-meaning folks “back home”.<\/li>
  • You fall asleep best with rain on a corrugated tin roof.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Development<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
    • On your 18th birthday, you still don’t have a driver’s license, but your passport is current.<\/li>
    • You don’t know how to count American money.<\/li>
    • Adults want to pay you to teach them English.<\/li>
    • All your clothes have been worn by someone else.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Language<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
      • You speak two languages but can’t spell in either.<\/li>
      • You send out birthday invitations and holiday cards in a foreign language.<\/li>
      • You sing songs to yourself in a language other than English.<\/li>
      • You carry Bibles in two languages to church.<\/li>
      • You watch an English language movie and read the foreign language subtitles.<\/li>
      • You dream in a foreign language.<\/li>
      • You carry a dictionary everywhere you go.<\/li>
      • Your dad scolds you in a foreign language.<\/li>
      • You write in your diary in a foreign language.<\/li>
      • You are used to people asking if you speak Asian or African.<\/li>
      • One of your most embarrassing moments involves mispronouncing a foreign word.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        Travel<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
        • Packing comes second nature to you – you consider it an art form.<\/li>
        • You flew before you could walk.<\/li>
        • You could travel the world and never have to stay in a hotel.<\/li>
        • Your first form of id was your passport and a residence visa.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

          Food<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
          • You know the owner of the local Asian market by name.<\/li>
          • You know raw fish tastes better than cooked.<\/li>
          • When eating spaghetti with chopsticks is easier than using a fork and spoon.<\/li>
          • All food tastes better with your fingers.<\/li>
          • You have gradually developed a taste to a local food substance that would never be approved by the FDA.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

             3D<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
            • You know how many zones you are from Greenwich Mean Time.<\/li>
            • You know when the World Cup is but aren’t too sure about the Super Bowl.<\/li>
            • You mail Christmas gifts in October.<\/li>
            • Nature programs make you homesick.<\/li>
            • You watch the Super Bowl live on Monday morning.<\/li>
            • Watching the news makes you homesick.<\/li>
            • You can tell the difference between a Cessna 185 and 206.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

              Adjustment\/Furlough<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
              • Your favorite game is Trivial Pursuit because you can get the Geography questions and you’ve memorized the cards in order to ‘fit in’.<\/li>
              • On deputation you have memorized your dad’s message.<\/li>
              • After the church service, you look for a slide projector to put away.<\/li>
              • Wearing shoes in the house sounds disgusting.<\/li>
              • ‘Little House on the Prairie’ reruns are the new fall line-up for you.<\/li>
              • You go on furlough and your mom buys everything in the store then explains to the cashier why this is necessary.<\/li>
              • You would rather sleep on the floor than on a bed.<\/li>
              • You find a seven-year-old picture of yourself on a stranger’s refrigerator.<\/li>
              • You like to watch television commercials.<\/li>
              • Driving on the right side of the road gives you the ‘willies.’<\/li>
              • You miss being constantly stared at and waited upon with continual diligence in restaurants and shops.<\/li>
              • It amazed you that someone would drive to the corner store instead of walk.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                Contributions from\u00a0Sean Sanborn, Susan McKinney, the Ron Hudson family (It’s been so long I can’t completely remember which Items I wrote back in the 1990’s.) General You know that you are an MK when, of all the places we could be surfing on the net, we are over here reminiscing on the good ol’ days. Visiting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5,13,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homepage","category-humor","category-mission-work","category-missionary-kids","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269,"href":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions\/2269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanborns.org\/word_press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}