Okay, I know I'm not an MK, but I can still relate to some of these...or at least appreciate them.
1 You can't answer the question, "Where are you from?"
2 011 is a familiar area code.
3 People send you used tea bags in the mail.
4 You speak two languages, but can't spell either.
5 You flew before you could walk.
6 The U.S. is a foreign country.
7 You embarrass yourself by asking what swear words mean.
8 You watch National Geographic specials and recognize someone.
9 You have a time zone map next to your telephone.
10 You consider a city 500 miles away to be "very close."
11 Your life story uses the phrase "Then we went to..." five times.
12 You think in grams, meters, and liters.
13 You read the international section before the comics.
14 You live at school, work in the tropics, and go home for vacation.
15 You don't know where home is.
16 You do your devotions in another language.
17 You sort your friends by continent.
18 "Where are you from?" has more than one reasonable answer.
19 The nationals say, "Oh, I knew an American once..." and then ask if you know him or her.
20 You aren't terribly surprised when you do.
21 You are grateful for the speed and efficiency of the U.S. Postal Service.
22 You realize that furlough is not a vacation.
23 You wince when people mispronounce foreign words.
24 You've spoken in dozens of churches, but aren't a pastor.
25 The majority of your friends never spoke English.
26 Someone brings up the name of a team, and you get the sport wrong.
27 You believe vehemently that football is played with a round, spotted ball.
28 You realize it really is a small world, after all.
29 You never take anything for granted.
30 You watch a movie set in a foreign country, and you know what the nationals are really saying into the camera.
31 You know how to pack.
32 You own personal appliances with 3 types of plugs, know the difference between 110 and 220 volts, 50 and 60 cycle current, and realize that a trasnsformer isn't always enough to make your appliances work.
33 You get confused because the dollar bills aren't colour coded.
34 You have a name in at least two different languages, and it's not the same one.
35 You miss the sub-titles when you go to see the latest movie.
36 You know what the name of your subcompact car means.
37 You determine your speed by the smaller orange numbers on the inside of your speedometer dial.
38 You cruise the Internet looking for fonts that can support foreign alphabets.
39 You think VISA is a document stamped in your passport, and not a plastic card you carry in your wallet.
40 You go to a church you have never been in before and find your picture on their bulletin board.
41 You look at the Rockies and think, "Nice hills."
42 You automatically take off your shoes as soon as you get home.
43 You know hundreds of missionaries all over the world, but forget your pastor's name.
44 You consider a three year old piece of clothing to be "Practically new."
45 You don't know whether to write the date as month/day/year, day/month/year, or some variation thereof.
46 You meet another MK, and discover that you share the same best friend.
47 The best word for something is the word you learned first, regardless of the language.
48 Half of your phone calls are unintelligible to those around you.
49 You wake up one day and realize you're not a foreigner anymore.
50 You wake up one day and realize you really still are a foreigner.
