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You know you're a YWAM when
For those of you who used to be with YWAM- a walk down memory lane. For those of you who want to know what its like to be a YWAMer- a glimpse into our lives! You know you're a YWAM when... - You're an expert on the quality of airline travel. - You have a time zone map or currency converter in your internet favourites. - You have friends from or in 29 different countries. - Most of your stories begin with the phrase "when we were in… " - Your family sends you peanut butter and Kool-Aid for Christmas. - You watch National Geographic specials and recognize someone. - While watching Amazing Race you yell out to the TV “No, that’s the wrong way!” - When the expiration date is just a guideline - You never cease to be amused by acronyms like these:
Young Women After Men
Yes, We Arrange Marriages
Youth With A Meeting
Youth With Out Money
You Will Always Move - You are quite happy to accept that your future husband/ wife is probably in a different country. - You need time to "process" everything. - At the airport you set your bags on the waiting room chair and sit on the floor. - You're watching the Simpsons, Ned Flanders comes out, and you say “Dean Sherman!” - You know that "every problem in the world is a problem of relationships. Every relationship problem is from pride. So pride is the cause of every problem in the world" (Dean Sherman) - You have bathed in a river for a minimum of 5 days straight, and have gone a minimum of 5 days straight without bathing at all! - Pooing and peeing in a hole doesn't phase you the way it should. - In any sort of social situation you are no longer ashamed to talk about having diarrhoea. You won't refer to it as an upset stomach, you can call it what it is. - You can’t afford to be scared of spiders, bugs, rats, etc. - If someone mentions a friend or family member that is with YWAM and your ears perk up and you have to immediately ask which base and see if you have met them. - When the word "flexible" takes on a whole other meaning. - You are fully aware that anytime you sit in a vehicle you must sleep because who knows when you will sleep next. - You're praying in the airport because someone is having trouble with their passport/visa - You go to a non-YWAM retreat and you think it's weird you don't have meal prep and clean-up. - You know how to ENCODE emails written in Muslim or Communists countries so that it doesn't sound Christian. - You think of calling a (YWAM) friend, but don't know what continent they are on. - On your birthday you know to expect a construction paper card signed by everyone at the base. - You have an unspoken bond with anyone and everyone who has done a DTS. - You leave with a total non-denominational view of Christianity and get really annoyed over petty Christian bickering. - One week you can't afford to buy coffee, the next week you're in another country on outreach. - The leaders of the organisation have time for you personally and you don't have to put them on a pedestal. - Stuffing 10 people in the truck bed on outreach is THE way to travel - You're no longer surprised at money turning up randomly and anonymously, just in the nick of time. - You can ride in the most dilapidated vehicles or sleep in the most dilapidated rooms and it's all just part of life - You know you're a YWAMer when you can say "base food" and everyone knows what you're talking about. - You randomly find foreign currency in your pockets. - Your primary ways of communicating with your best friends are internet-related (e-mail, Skype, Facebook etc). - You still live out of your suitcase for months after returning home - Your love life becomes international news - You carry a backpack everywhere and could probably live out of it for a couple weeks - You ride in a white 12-seater van daily
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