You know you went to an international school when...

Someone else wrote this, but here are some of my favorites...

1) You can't answer the question: "Where are you from?"
2) You speak two (or more) languages but can't spell in any of them.
3) You flew before you could walk.
4) You run into someone you know at every airport
5) You have a time zone map next to your telephone.
6) Your life story uses the phrase "Then we went to..." five times (or six, or seven times...).
7) You speak with authority on the quality of airline travel.
8) National Geographic (OR THE TRAVEL CHANNEL) makes you homesick.
9) You read the international section before the comics.
10) You don't know where home is.
11) You sort your friends by continent.
12) You feel that multiple passports would be appropriate.
13) You watch a movie set in a 'foreign country', and you know what the nationals are really saying into the camera.
14) Rain on a tile patio - or a corrugated metal roof - is one of the most wonderful sounds in the world.
15) Your wardrobe can only handle two seasons: wet and dry.
16) Your high school memories include those days that school was canceled due to tear gas, riots, demonstrations, or bomb threats.
17) Your dorm room/apartment/living room looks a little like a museum with all the "exotic" things you have around.
18) Half of your phone calls are unintelligible to those around you.
19) You have best friends in 5 different countries.
20) It takes 24 hours to reach home in a plane
21) When a friend talks about their dreams of traveling to across the world to a secluded country and you can give them all the best restaurants and places to visit. You're like the traveler guidebook.
22) You hate subtitles because you know there is someone that can make an accurate translation.. you!
23) You have little or no contact with the locals but are best friends with people across the globe
24) When something unusual happens and it just doesn't seem to phase you as being something unordinary
25) When you speak many broken languages at once when you are drunk

Excerpt

"'Tis frightening to me sometimes, that all our reasoning and works are so provisional, so damned fragile, and someday we pass away like the strain of breath on a mirror and sink back into that from whence we've come."
From Middle Passage, by Charles Johnson.

Going Further

So I think I've decided something quite unexpected. I'm going to run a half-marathon this year. Honestly, I don't even like long-distance running that much. I'm much more of a sprint, wind-in-your-face kind of runner. BUT. Things being as they are, I really enjoyed the 10K race, especially running so much faster than I thought I was able to. Now I want to take it a step further, and complete 13.1 miles. I know it will be tough, and challenging, but I also hope it will be doable. I imagine it will be. I haven't decided which one yet, but it will probably be within driving distance of Charleston... maybe Virginia or something. Woohoo!!