something on the fun side...

This may explain why I think a Passport should be in everyone's 'staple documents'...and why I didn't really care to read about other adoptive parents 'advice' on how to deal with living in a foreign country without the comforts of home. (what? no hamburger joint? oh the horror!)

(I'll need to put this on facebook where I'm in touch with my Brazilian-highschool friends...soooo long ago!!)


YOU KNOW YOU WENT TO AN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL WHEN:
1. You can't answer the question "where are you from?"
2. You speak two or more languages.
3. You flew before you could walk.
4. You have a passport, but no drivers license.
5. You have a time zone map and international calling card next to your telephone.
6. You don't know where home is.
7. Someone brings up the name of a team and you get the sport wrong.
8. You know there is no such thing as an international language.
9. You realize it really is a small world, after all.
10. Your high school memories include those days that school was cancelled due to bomb threats, tear gas, riots, demonstrations, or flooding.
11. You have a name in at least two different languages, and it's not the same one.
12. You think VISA is a document stamped in your passport, and not a plastic card that you carry in your wallet.
13. You automatically take off your shoes as soon as you get home.
14. You know the geography of the rest of the world, but you don't know the geography of your own country.
15. You actually go to your 'HOME' country for summer holidays.
16. Your high school yearbook looks like a Bennetton catalogue.
17. You're spoiled. You know it. You're VERY spoiled.
18. Sports tournaments required plane rides and homestays.
19. No matter what people tell you, you'll never drink TAP WATER.
20. You watch a movie set in a foreign country, and you know what the nationals are really saying into the camera.
21. Your second major is in a foreign language you already speak.
22. You sort your friends by continent.
23. Your life story uses the phrase "Then we went to..." five times (or six, or seven times...).
24. You have or are elligible for more than one passport. Each on a different continent.
25. Your family moves every three years.
26. You and your high school friends can speak in a different language to each other when you don't want anyone to listen.
27. Each of your friends is from a different country.
28. School field trips require traveling outside the country
29. You've been drinking alcohol at fancy dinner parties since you were about 13.
30. Many of your friends had chauffeurs drive them to school.
31. Your high school prom was at a five star hotel.