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MK Survey question 8:  (MKs on foreign fields) What is the first thing you like to do after coming back to North America for furlough?

Visit with family

Andrew Visser

31

France

Go to my favorite restaurant!  Whatever it might be at the time.

Jill (Peters) Watkins

30

São Paulo, Brazil

The local mall.

 

Karin Ruhkala Sicoli

32

Finland

Run to the soda machine and slip two quarters in for a diet Mountain Dew:)

  Go to Walmart and spend a ton of money...

Rebecca Smith

15

Londrina, Parana-Brazil

 

Go to the soda machine and get a diet Dr. Pepper!!!

Go to Walmart and get clothes or foods that we missed (Pop-tarts and granola bars, here I come!)

Rachel Smith

16

Londrina, Brazil

See my family and my niece, Caitlyn!

Abigail M. Jewell

16

Sorocaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Have a pizza or Hot Dog

Mark Seymour

53

Chad, Africa

Taco Bell!

Joshua Whitman

27

Italy

My favorite thing used to be to catch up on all our favorite foods, while visiting with our families.

Jon Price

31

USA (Indiana) ?

Visit American supermarket

Daniel Ruhkala

31

Finland

Get a blizzard at Dairy Queen then sleep.

Clinton Ellis

17

Germany

Get donuts.

Drink root-beer.

Sing the tenor part in congregational singing.

 

Now, to be fair, you should have asked the follow up question: What is the first thing you do when you get back to the field after furlough. Because for many of us, there are things we miss while on furlough!

Turn on my computer and just enjoy being back home and in my own study!

Drink several mugs of decent home brewed coffee.

Get my guitar and enjoy accompanying the congregational singing (only singing  melody).

Enjoy the way we have a “time of singing and worship” after the message in our Church Service.

David Boyd

49

The Netherlands

Sleep!  That’s all I want to do after 36 hours in planes and airports!!!

Just kidding.  Actually, the first thing we usually did was to dive into the American cereals.  Our relatives knew which ones we liked and couldn’t usually get on the field, and they would have a good supply waiting for us, so that when we were hungry at strange hours (you know what jet-lag is), we could enjoy our Grape-Nuts, Kix, and Cheerios!

Anna Beth Wivell

25

Australia

Something that I look forward to is the good ice-cream!

Sarah Darling

20

Venezuela

Go shopping at a mall, see the shelves full of cereal or make-up, and go to the library.

Hannah Stilwell

16

Peru

Drink a glass of whole milk. We only drank powered milk in Venezuela which tastes different then whole milk here in the States

Daniel Darling

26

Venezuela

-eat raw fruits and veggies (not safe on our field.)

-see friends in the States

Lisa (Brammer) Bolton

27

Taiwan/New Zealand

Go to Wal-mart. It is a great place to go and spend all day at

Leah Ronk

20

Brazil

I liked seeing how much I had grown while I was gone and seeing peoples reactions to how much I had changed!

Michelle (Stinedurf) Williams

36

Puerto Rico

Eat Kellogg’s Cornflakes

Philip Harris

37

C.A.R.

Shopping at stores that have more than one size and same thing in various colors.

Joy Spieth

62

Brazil

 

Visit relatives

Christopher Armstrong

14

Russia/Siberia

I like to visit relatives

Corey Armstrong

12

Russia/Siberia

ridicule from classmates in a native village

Lisa (Richter) Armstrong

35

Alaska (as MK)

 

When I was a kid, it was going to MacDonald's for a Big Mac. Now that they have MacDonald's in Brazil, and I'm still sick of Big Macs from last furlough, I'd say visit one of the mega bookstores or a good library.

Mark Swedberg

43

Brazil

Mall, getting hair styled, going to the grocery store.  Opening up storage to get out some old keepsakes you haven’t seen in 3+ years.

Victoria Lynn (Elmer) Meerman

31

C.A.R.

 

See aunts and uncles, etc.  There were always certain foods I couldn't wait to eat again (strawberries!).

Darlene (Reiner) Smith

54

Brazil

Rootbeer and Oreos (preferably not together)

Daniel Boyd

26

The Netherlands

When I was young, going to Dairy Queen was the second thing.  The first thing was seeing my grandparents and cousins, aunts and uncles.

Bill Griffin Jr.

58

Brazil

Drink an ice-cold Dr. Pepper!  Or maybe eat some Oreo cookies with milk!  Or grab a burrito at Chipotle!  Something to do with food!!!

Peter Barber

25

Brazil, NE Region

Visit relatives and friends

Hannah (Broeckert) Sherd

32

C.A.R.

When we were in Brazil, whenever we would come to the States for furlough my grandparents would take the whole family to Myrtle Beach as a time to reconnect with aunts, uncles, cousins.

Joy Thompson

18

B.I. (Brazil for 15 years)

Eat cereal like Frosted Flakes for breakfast, and go to McDonalds for lunch.  Watch something on TV.  Play sports with other kids.

Larry Fogle

56

C.A.R.

I usually, after sleeping off the trip and saying hi to my family, go to a store like Wal-Mart.

Christopher Frey

16

Lima, Peru

Go to McDonalds, eat ice cream

Cherith (Broeckert) Teachout

29

C.A.R.

gorge myself on fast food and tv . . . (yes, I know, it's pretty sad).

Mark Anderson

35

France

N/A

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