You know you’re a TCK when:

You can swear convincingly in 5 different languages.

To everyone’s confusion, your accent can change depending on to whom you are speaking.

And you often slip foreign slang into your English by mistake, which makes you unintelligible to

most people.

You’re really good at calculating time differences, because you have to do it every time you call your parents or watch a match.

You start getting birthday wishes several hours before your birthday, from your friends

further east than you.

Your passport looks like it’s been through hell and back.

You have a love-hate relationship with the question “Where are you from?”

You have both a short and long answer ready, and you pick one depending on who’s asking.

You get nervous whenever a form needs you to enter a “permanent address.”

You know that McDonald’s and KFC taste drastically different from country to country.

You’ve spent an absurd and probably unhealthy amount of time on airplanes.

Your list of friends’ nationalities reads like an Olympic event competitors’ list.• UK• USA• Bahrain• Australia• Pakistan• Ireland• India• Palestine• Germany• Peru• Sudan• S Africa• Iran• UAE• Russia• Sweden• Ukraine• N Zealand• Kenya• Nigeria• Thailand• Indonesa• Lebanon

You’ve had the most rigorous sensitivity training of all: real life.Eg You always take your shoes off in a Thai household, but never show the soles of your feet to an Arab.

You’re a food snob because you’ve sampled the best and most authentic of

every possible cuisine.

You convert any price to two different currencies before making significant purchases.

You often find yourself singing along to songs in languages you don’t speak or understand.

The end of the school year was always bittersweet because so many

people moved away.

But the constant flow of new friends more than made up for it.