1) Meet cool people: On mishes, mishers meet all kinds of interesting people- from our unforgettable friend from Higher Heath (Notts Mish) to the fit girls whom the mishketeers were forced to painfully turn down on the Leeds mish. There are always people willing to talk to people with different accents (Slight scouse accents down South) and if you tell people what you're doing, they'll laugh and conversation is easier.
2) See The World: On the London mish, the mishketeers saw every aspect of Britain: from industrial Liverpool and Birmingham, historic Chester, the rural farm area of Whitchurch, the student town of Oxford and the 'Daily Mail' conuty, somewhere near Stratford. We saw various interesting things: the sights of London, Stratford and Chester in particular and learned far more in a day than tourists do on a fortnight's holiday: you'd be stupid NOT to mish, really.
3) Learn important things: Mishing teaches you the importance of self-sacrifice, the value of money, and co-operation- very important values for all good Communists and Capitalists alike.
4) Character buliding: While on mises, it is often necessary to go whole two days without sleep or food. Who knows when this could be useful? Perhaps if you are captured by a tribe, or stranded in the desert somewhere... the possibilities are endless.
5) Be like Rob, Johnny, Fee and Kurt: The mishketeers are the best people in the world, and you should follow their teachings dogmatically at all times, and so mishing is a must.
6) Have fun: Mishing REALLY IS fun: Honestly, you shouldn't knock it until you've tried it. Also, there is opportunities to shave people's eyebrows etc when one (usually Fee) of the mishketeers foolishly falls asleep.
7) Planning is also fun: Most people get bored. NEVER the mishketeers, for they always have important mishing business to attend to like raising funds and checking bus routes, as well as climbing trees and practicing for their band. Honestly, we don't know where the days go...
8) You might meet the mishkeers: Some people may be fortunate enough to bump into the mishketeers on a bus, and one Latvian fan fortunate enough to do this described this as the "defining moment of my life."
9) Impress girls: Girls are impressed by your tales of valour, bravery and adventurous...ness and your chances of pie will dramatically improve... one misher in the Sweden had never kissed a girl before but following his Stockholm mish, went out with all six Tomasson sisters (Olga, Helga, Magnus, Henrik, Sven and Ulrika) at the same time!
10) There's no reason not to!: the only logical reason NOT to mish, is that you will a) you will miss neighbours or b) you will miss a gig by The Smiths. Don't panic! Most people these days have video recoreders for Neighbours, and the Smiths split up in 1987. Fear not, mish on!