1. Anyone who ventures into cross-cultural missions without some kind of preparation is nuts
    — 

    Thomas Hale, in “On Being A Missionary”

    I guess that makes me nuts then. If I had read this book before I left, I probably would have saved myself a lot of grief. As I’m reading it now, I see that I learned a lot of the things that Hale talks about the hard way. Oh well, at least I’m learning =)