If you are ready to:

  • Immerse yourself in a completely different way of life.
  • Share in the richness of poverty. Do not show off your affluence.
  • Broaden your perspectives on religion, inequality, development, and international relations.
  • Change your concept of what makes for a happy life.
  • Encounter problems that are sometimes beyond your control to fix.
  • Work with people of different religious beliefs. Remember that you are coming to a place where the history of Christianity predates that of yours, AD 52. Do not come with any conversion intentions.
  • You are ready for constant questions, attention, and affection.
  • Become more dependent on others.
  • Have spicy food, though it need not be hot.
  • Suffer hot and humid weather during March, April and May.
  • Live in a culture that places less emphasis on scheduling.