The lady who spoke at church tonight gave quite a hilarious rundown of when you come to accept the following things, you know you're really not an expat anymore! I am not sure they're quite as funny from an American perspective, but maybe some of you will enjoy this anyway!! :-)
Horn beeping lulls you to sleep
using floss (that you brought from your home country of course) and paperclips as plumbing tools is not only normal but suggested (Rob used duct tape recently to help secure a lighting fixture!)
that there is no p/b hard sound - so you know the lamp in the meat department is lamb and you know the no barking rule applies to drivers, not dogs.
crossing streets isn't scary, it's an adventurous game of frogger
you simply don't repair dents in your vehicle and you can drive all day not realizing a side mirror is missing or pushed in
When it's 100 degrees in Aug, you shut the a/c off because it's too cold
a 3 bump parallel park job is a SUPERB park job - bumping the cars more than 3 times means you need a bit more practice
in reality....she talked about something I've been learning here...about how comfortable I was in the US....about how I felt I wasn't really a materalistic person, but only "in comparison" - I forgot to compare to God's vision of that....letting EVERYTHING we own go is really not as easy as it sounds! And then nothing is really very comfortable here and it's been a blessing...so that we remember where our future lies...who our LEADER is! not a president, not a movement, not a medical breakthru...but rather THE RISEN KING!
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AAAAH the glories of duct tape!!!! So comforting to know that it's an acceptable 'tool' for everything in other parts of the world too!!! LOL!!!! ;)
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